Rats

[KnockoffNeil]

wire cage trap use chocky as bait. they get mega nasty when your close up to them with a air rifle in their face.

[Metroyeti]

Pub I worked at was near a river, council had the bright idea to flood the river so we got a rat problem. Was tasked with cleaning the garage, opened the door and one ran up the wall place was riddled with them. They had been living off a case of cans of coke. So the fizzy drinks trick is a myth im afraid.

[Tibbs735]

Scorched earth policy. Leave no survivors
Lol jk
One idea I've seen for mice (You could scale it up for rats) is to get a large coke bottle, cut off the top 1/4, and turn it upside down. Put food it the bottom, bury it up to its neck near their runs (Often along the bottom of walls etc) and wait.

[bigpaul]

thanks for all the replies, i think we will go for a wire cage as we will KNOW we have caught it rather than poison it and it crawls off somewhere to die where we might never see it, at least in a cage i can see it and then shoot it, i know its dead.

[BeardyMan]

(5 January 2013, 10:54)bigpaul Wrote: thanks for all the replies, i think we will go for a wire cage as we will KNOW we have caught it rather than poison it and it crawls off somewhere to die where we might never see it, at least in a cage i can see it and then shoot it, i know its dead.

If you have neighbours you dont like pop the newly captured rat through the letterbox. Alive ideally, but dead does send it's own kind of message

[bigpaul]

(5 January 2013, 11:02)BeardyMan Wrote:

(5 January 2013, 10:54)bigpaul Wrote: thanks for all the replies, i think we will go for a wire cage as we will KNOW we have caught it rather than poison it and it crawls off somewhere to die where we might never see it, at least in a cage i can see it and then shoot it, i know its dead.

If you have neighbours you dont like pop the newly captured rat through the letterbox. Alive ideally, but dead does send it's own kind of message

i dont have any neighbours i dislike that much!

[Highlander]

You could do what I have seen done to Seagulls...and feed them soda, and wait untill they explode,.. when the soda mixes with the gut it expand.

........ or you could call the council, they have a legal duty to rid you of pests

[Metroyeti]

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i dont have any neighbours i dislike that much!
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My mum used to post roadkill frogs that had dried in the sun through peoples letter boxes

[Tibbs735]

Maybe the old poaching trick for pheasants would work on rats; thread a horse hair in an S shape through a raisin. When the rat eats it, it should choke and die.

[bigpaul]

you lot really are nasty!! all i'm going to do is catch it in a cage and shoot it but you lot...ugh!!