Thread: Farking rats

I've been trapping rodents around our Urban house for years. We have a small creek running down a boundary with monster bamboo on a neighbours property we also have some free range chooks. This winter the rat numbers have for the first time been very low. I can't nail one at all so thats good for the Pewakawaka. Except we have a rat in the bedroom wall. It turns up every morning around 3-4.00am and bangs around. I cannot catch it. There's traps in the roof space and under the house and along the creek. I'm using peanut butter, cheese, mayo, fruit all with no result. We are sleeping in the lounge to get a decent nights sleep. I am considering one of those ultrasonic deterrents. Do they work? do they give you cancer? do they drive your chooks mad? I'm on the verge of smashing holes in the gib board.
Thanks

Try sultanas for bait, works well for me with rats and mice.

Originally Posted by Dermastor

I've been trapping rodents around our Urban house for years. We have a small creek running down a boundary with monster bamboo on a neighbours property we also have some free range chooks. This winter the rat numbers have for the first time been very low. I can't nail one at all so thats good for the Pewakawaka. Except we have a rat in the bedroom wall. It turns up every morning around 3-4.00am and bangs around. I cannot catch it. There's traps in the roof space and under the house and along the creek. I'm using peanut butter, cheese, mayo, fruit all with no result. We are sleeping in the lounge to get a decent nights sleep. I am considering one of those ultrasonic deterrents. Do they work? do they give you cancer? do they drive your chooks mad? I'm on the verge of smashing holes in the gib board.
Thanks

those ultrasonic units are crap. in fact the one i opened up contained an actual paper coned speaker not a transducer and was incapable of producing ultrasonic frequencies.
get a cat !

I've got poison in my trap stations but its not touched though this has worked in the past. Can't put out free poison because of the chooks. I feel like smashing a hole in the wall and dropping some poison in there. Get a cat yeah right I have enough problems with my neigbours ones killing all the birds.

Thermal and or IR gamecam? Try to suss out its movements/routines, and hatch a plan?

Metal skewer through the gib board for the one in the wall

Try and find its entry/exit point. Hopefully then you can prevent entry. Its maybe a female looking to make more rats.

Have ya got one of those predators with four legs go meow an only really wanna know ya when they want something? We had mice etc, since we have had this catapuss creature thing rodents are near non existence.