Go on Mr.Rat ....... take the cheese.

[Buckshot Bear]

Go on Mr.Rat ....... take the cheese.

 

 

 

[Rip Snorter]

8 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

Go on Mr.Rat ....... take the cheese.

 

 

 

Peanut Butter is deadly bait!  Mice or rats!

[Springfield Slim SASS #24733]

My rat catchers on break.

[Rip Snorter]

2 minutes ago, Springfield Slim SASS #24733 said:

My rat catchers on break.

If only my wife wasn't cat allergic!  We always had cats when I lived at home as a boy, and never a rodent issue!

[Buckshot Bear]

27 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Peanut Butter is deadly bait!  Mice or rats!

 

Yes, used it for many years but not this rat ....... not interested. He would sniff it and just go on with destroying things that are stored up there.

Put some cheese on the trap trigger, melted a bit with a lighter so it was giving off lots of nice smells, wrapped some cotton yarn around it a few times and had him within 30 minutes of putting the trap up there.

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

According to some sources, it was discovered that regular Doritos chips were the best mouse/rat bait!

 

We have feild mice to invade when nearby farmers mow their pastures. The Doritos work better than anything else we’ve tried.

[Chantry]

Jack Russell Terrorists are normally good ratters and the last I read they are still being used in that role in England for farmers who don't want to use poisons.  They can hire a guy in brings in 2 or 3 JRT's and they'll stack the rats into a (literal) pile.

[Eyesa Horg]

You gotta watch out for those terrorist Jack Russells 😜

[Cypress Sun]

Boy, that trap was set "hard". I usually set them "soft", when it will easily be tripped, sometimes setting it down will even trip it. Another thing I try to do is position the trap in a manmade alley with non-bait end at the alley end and the bait at the open end so that the rodent has little choice for its approach to the trap. I tried a glue type trap once, damn rat got that stuff everywhere around the trap, didn't use them again.

Fruit rats weren't uncommon at a house it had 25 years ago as the neighbors all had citrus trees in their yards. It is very rare that I have to set a trap now , but when I do, it's either in the garage or shed. Last one was for a mouse in the garage, got it on the first try with peanut butter bait.

 

The dog we had when I was growing up was a Rat Terrier. She was the second most smartest dog I ever encountered or had...we didn't have rat problems....or cat problems for that matter.

[Blackwater 53393]

Dalmatians had that responsibility in stables in Europe, among other duties.

 

Our first male delighted in catching the field mice that would invade our place when they cut the hayfields!

 

We used to joke that he was “Mouse Godzilla”!

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

I found the best for the mice in my cabin was unbuttered popcorn, cheese never worked, peanut butter worked better.

[Rip Snorter]

Don't get fooled by the expensive blue goo that one trap company sells - I have yet to catch anything with it.

[Texas Joker]

10 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

Don't get fooled by the expensive blue goo that one trap company sells - I have yet to catch anything with it.

It caught YOU

[Rip Snorter]

1 minute ago, Texas Joker said:

It caught YOU

YUP! On the other hand, they make a trap you are not supposed to need to bait - not as good as PB, but decent results.  That was the basis for the purchase, goo since trashed.