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OT: Rat Trap

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roy johnson

01-25-2007 17:50:35




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I wanted to try a different approach to catching rats in my shed. In the past I've used the pellet poisons and the spring loaded wooden traps; both with relative success with advanages / disadvantage for each. Now I'm going to try a cage trap. This device, a cage with a trap door, is suppose to catch the rat alive.

Has anyone had any luck with these cage traps? What kind of bait did you use or suggest?
What do you do with the rat once you catch it?...let it out in your neighbors yard. :-)

Why does the idea of having rats seem so much worse than having mice?....maybe because I remember the Micky Mouse club, not the Micky Rat club. :-)

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Kansas Cockshutt

01-27-2007 00:40:35




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
I learned to throw my pocket knife blade down with accuracy, but some times they chew off whatever got caught and were long gone by the time I got there. Off to go chew up some wiring, carrying the plague and whatever else they do.

The bucket and water does work well. Even found mice in dogs heated plastic water bowl- crawled in and could not get out. Or maybe the dog wanted to show up the cats?

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vitzarus

01-26-2007 09:34:57




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
Good tips guys.I like the fact that these are contained elimination. Some would just scatter rat poison all around and kill critters. I remember a neighbor"s dog. Was really the coolest beast. Husky yet short but heavy. A dog you don"t mess with. A bulldozer of a dog. I thank my lucky stars that I didn"t put out poison within two years of what happened. That little horse got into some. Evidence was that it was a cruel death.Dogs like this don"t come around every day.I miss that dog.I believe rats killed her for without that vermin it wouldn"t have been necessary for the poison someone put out. Nor do I want to kill a deer or rabbit. So these traps are good stuff.

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RB/CT

01-26-2007 05:58:22




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
Eliminate the food source, use moth balls, or steel wool to keep them out, avoid killing them and dealing with thier diseases, of which they have many. Good luck.



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Lance in Brenham, TX

01-26-2007 09:33:52




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to RB/CT, 01-26-2007 05:58:22  
If they're diseased, they need to be killed. That is the only way to get rid ov the disease.



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GaryMA

01-26-2007 05:38:09




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
Use a 5 gal metal bucket with cover. Cross cut 1 1/2 to 2" six times in the center of the cover and bend in tabs to create the entrance. Put in nuts or bird seed. They can jump in but not out. If they manage to get out, just adjust the tabs that were bent in. You can lean a board against the bucket for easy access. Put the setup against a wall, where they commonly travel. Post your results for me..... ..

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dan hill

01-26-2007 05:18:40




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
Cage trap works fine.Shoot em in the head with a pellet gun.After they snap at you a few times you wont mind killing them.Pick up the trap with pliers , they will try to bite you.Dog food makes a good bait.You can mix plaster of paris and powdered sugar half and half in a cat food tin.Plugs em up good.



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VaTom

01-26-2007 04:22:18




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
I've done much better with bird seed than peanut butter in my live trap. Never managed to get a rat with a spring trap.

For disposal, you guys have nobody you dislike? I take my rats a mile up the road to the trailer where the brothers live who tried to break into my shop. Always wondered if they noticed the increased rat population there. Sometimes I'll take 2-3/week.



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muleandheelers

01-26-2007 14:02:20




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to VaTom, 01-26-2007 04:22:18  
"Never managed to get a rat with a spring trap."

One of the best ways I've found to catch a pack-rat or rock chuck, is to place a leg hold trap in a 6" piece of stove pipe along a wall.



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Dusty MI

01-26-2007 06:32:54




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to VaTom, 01-26-2007 04:22:18  
VaTom, perhaps the brothers are doing the same to you. LOL



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VaTom

01-26-2007 17:28:15




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to Dusty MI, 01-26-2007 06:32:54  
Maybe, but if so they're using paint remover on the tails...

And I live 1/2 mile up a mountain, with a driveway sensor.



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Ron Grother

01-26-2007 02:56:07




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
take a garbitch can and put enough water so they can`t jump out. put a board so they can walk up it. put some peanutbutter down so they have to reach for it . by by rat



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midlam

01-25-2007 19:56:13




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
I have used the bigger live traps for woodchucks.
Have to push down on the traps when I drown them becuse they are so good of a swimmer. Not reaaly a good feeling.
There where some simple plans for traps in Farm Show. If I rememer right,One used half barrels half filled with water and suspended pivoting cans or foating cans covered with peanut butter. Rats would jump down on cans and drown.
one used a teeter-toter like balance on the edge with peanut butter on the tip. rats would go afer the bait and get dumped in the water.

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Hobo,NC

01-25-2007 19:01:49




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
Cracker wif peanut butter wif sum poison on it, dispose in a jar wif a lid or bucket till he suffocates then burry or Carrie off wif garbage.. Fer mice'izz same way we use the Plexiglas traps wif the trap door and dispose in a quart jar wif a lid.



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bo

01-25-2007 18:34:04




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
peanut butter...smooth and creamy. I suppose chunky would work. They're nuts for peanut butter. Kill them ...how? As was said...drown them ...that's the easiest. Other than that, you'll have to club them or open the trap and try to shoot them as they run out. Nope...drown them.



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upred

01-25-2007 17:57:51




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 Re: OT: Rat Trap in reply to roy johnson, 01-25-2007 17:50:35  
once you catch one, place the trap and catch in a tub of water and let nature take over, also works real good for skunks, just cover the trap with a cloth to keep the skunk calm and place trap and all in the tub of water ( deep enough to cover the trap) and wait



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