10-03-2011, 09:38 AM
oh boy, that is a new one, my sympathies! I'd be fit to be tied.
I've had little luck with any traps that spring or require the rat to follow the bait, which has left me with the large sticky traps.
Cats only want to eat rats that they have just killed, in my experience, but that is my cats and I can't be sure about yours. Mine rarely eat much of the rat; mice they will eat, I guess rats are tough or something.
I don't know about the electric rat traps.
Sticky traps do work, but you have to be able to get them out. One problem with poisoning rodents is they crawl off to die and the smell when they decompose is gawdawful.
I have recently found that rats like cherry (or any kind of) tomato. I found out I had a rat (which was brought in by cat and then lost) when I found bites in my tomatoes, and I just caught the thing by putting a cherry tomato in the middle of a large sticky. I was getting no results with peanut butter, even though it is supposed to be da bomb for luring rodents.
I've had little luck with any traps that spring or require the rat to follow the bait, which has left me with the large sticky traps.
Cats only want to eat rats that they have just killed, in my experience, but that is my cats and I can't be sure about yours. Mine rarely eat much of the rat; mice they will eat, I guess rats are tough or something.
I don't know about the electric rat traps.
Sticky traps do work, but you have to be able to get them out. One problem with poisoning rodents is they crawl off to die and the smell when they decompose is gawdawful.
I have recently found that rats like cherry (or any kind of) tomato. I found out I had a rat (which was brought in by cat and then lost) when I found bites in my tomatoes, and I just caught the thing by putting a cherry tomato in the middle of a large sticky. I was getting no results with peanut butter, even though it is supposed to be da bomb for luring rodents.