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rats - Barneyboy - 12 February 2013
help any best way to get them to take food from traps doing what i have aways done with peanut butter but mr ratty i having none of it
RE: rats - bigpaul - 12 February 2013
(12 February 2013, 18:13)Barneyboy Wrote: help any best way to get them to take food from traps doing what i have aways done with peanut butter but mr ratty i having none of it
try a piece of bacon or cheese or sausage? i wouldnt go into your trap for peanut butter either!!
RE: rats - Barneyboy - 12 February 2013
(12 February 2013, 18:15)bigpaul Wrote:(12 February 2013, 18:13)Barneyboy Wrote: help any best way to get them to take food from traps doing what i have aways done with peanut butter but mr ratty i having none of it
try a piece of bacon or cheese or sausage? i wouldnt go into your trap for peanut butter either!!
funny i ment is
RE: rats - Highlander - 12 February 2013
I would also say fat of one sort or another,..although I am surprised that they are not going for whats on offer,...rats will normally take anything,.. maybe your traps are the wrong color
RE: rats - Barneyboy - 12 February 2013
(12 February 2013, 18:31)Highlander Wrote: I would also say fat of one sort or another,..although I am surprised that they are not going for whats on offer,...rats will normally take anything,.. maybe your traps are the wrong color
there black plastic ones ,may be its my scent on them
RE: rats - Highlander - 12 February 2013
naaaarrr, try a different color..
,... I say this as 90% joke and 10% not,..as I am sure that I read somewhere that rats see color, and are drawn to certain colors,... I feel a google moment coming on
RE: rats - Tibbs735 - 12 February 2013
Mix some flour with cement powder, then add water to make a paste. Leave it in a little dish in all the usual spots for rat runs. You could sweeten it with molasses or honey as well. Any rat that eats that will die.
RE: rats - Highlander - 12 February 2013
(12 February 2013, 18:41)Tibbs735 Wrote: Mix some flour with cement powder, then add water to make a paste. Leave it in a little dish in all the usual spots for rat runs. You could sweeten it with molasses or honey as well. Any rat that eats that will die.
Thats a bit like feeding seagulls with soda balls,.. they eat those and `blow up`,..simply expands in the gut, might work with rats to
RE: rats - Metroyeti - 12 February 2013
Ferrets, dogs and guns
RE: rats - Digger - 12 February 2013
In cold winter months, I've found that small piecs of Mars Bar prove irresistible bait to all members of the Ratty family..