Thread: rat help

Whatever you do, dont get caught by the smart bastard that invented a tunnel trap that you roll a docking ring onto the trigger...... supposed to catch the rat / mouse by the neck and strangle them.
They look good but I have never caught a rat/ mouse in either model yet.

Gin trap with bacon fat melted on it, or a buried gin trap on its run, covered with news paper.

Once caught a rat with a 2 tonne bail of pulp, we were just lifting out of the hold on a ship, guy on the radio spied a shadow under the bails, calmly said "come back" on the radio.
Ta Da... flat rat . Big bastard too would have been a foot long on the body. When we put it in a 20 l bucket its tail hung out the top.

Originally Posted by Sideshow

Cannibalism

I assumed in the very P.C. UK that cannibalism would have been outlawed long ago ???

The rat population is unusually high right now .As others have said, safe, well-placed and secured bait (poison) is the way to go. I've seen good vehicles badly damaged , along with houses. Even their urine, completely corrodes and wrecks stuff--as bad as cat-spray

I've killed quite a lot over the years just using crushed dry weetbix and dry cement powder mixed through.
Not the nicest method but fatal.. They go straight to water and,,,,,,,well you know what happens next..ouch.

What they take a swim and can’t because of the concert boots go jimmy hopper

Of those I've found later had a reasonable sized ball of concrete in the works,but you knew that eh?

Originally Posted by doinit

I've killed quite a lot over the years just using crushed dry weetbix and dry cement powder mixed through.
Not the nicest method but fatal.. They go straight to water and,,,,,,,well you know what happens next..ouch.

similar to icing sugar and plaster of paris.... i like these ideas as if cats or dogs have a go at them they are just a bit crunchy

Originally Posted by rewa

The rat population is unusually high right now .As others have said, safe, well-placed and secured bait (poison) is the way to go. I've seen good vehicles badly damaged , along with houses. Even their urine, completely corrodes and wrecks stuff--as bad as cat-spray

@rewa After what happened in ChCh yesterday, maybe gas explosions could be added to the list ??

Originally Posted by doinit

I've killed quite a lot over the years just using crushed dry weetbix and dry cement powder mixed through.
Not the nicest method but fatal.. They go straight to water and,,,,,,,well you know what happens next..ouch.

That has been my everyday breakfast since I was told to harden up.

Originally Posted by Moa Hunter

@rewa After what happened in ChCh yesterday, maybe gas explosions could be added to the list ??

I'm surprised anyone survived that, it looked as bad as London, after the bombings of WW2, those poor people. I wouldnt want to be the Contractor who serviced it last week either

@Blisters by the way how’s,the fattening up ofyour pet rats going

Originally Posted by Sideshow

@Blisters by the way how’s,the fattening up ofyour pet rats going

new trap in for 3 days and no rat yet, I think it may have a sore head or is trap shy after last week

try bluebird rashuns as bait...tie em on with cotton.

No stop abusing bacon!! No hate speech on this forum

Read on the net a while ago that if Rats sniff/inhale Black Pepper it irritates their lungs, they swell and pop..bye bye rat
Also apparently human hair chokes them..go to the nearest pub as scalp the most pissed bugger there and try it mixed in runny cat food..
And apparently Ammonia poured down their holes makes them think cats are around so they allegedly leave.
Me..I like thinking I'm Rambo, waiting 6 hours in the frost with bread as a proven bait..then shoot the buggers!
Be warned though..rat shooting is addictive..when my current spot is thinned I'll be searching elsewhere for shooting spots