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    Default Untrappable rat

    This may get moved, but I wanted anybody that may have some experience to read it and offer opinions, not just the folks interested in furbearers.

    About a month ago, I walked into my storage shed and a dog food bag had a hole chewed in it. I set a mouse trap, which got sprung, but no mouse, and the trap was about 6 feet from where I set it. So I set a rat trap, and it got tripped with no rat. So, upon internet search, I read that people have luck by hot gluing dog food to rat traps, where the rat will have to work on the bait, thereby getting caught. After about 3 days of nothing, the trap got sprung, the food got eaten, and still no rat. So, the next step was glue traps. Again, the food gets gone, there's crap on the glue trap, and no rat. Even the last snap trap i set hasn't been touched in over a week. I've taken most of the food source away, but Common sense tells me if I take it completely away the next best food source will lead to migration to the house, and that won't work at all. I have not tried poison, because more of the reviews say it doesn't work, but I'm willing to try anything right now.
    I know my manhood and intelligence will be questioned, but I know alot of yall have barns, feed lots, and hunting camps and cabins, and I'm sure somebody here has experienced this and can give me a suggestion or two. Thanks in advance.

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    Saw tooth is probably cheaper

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    Set a trail camera, you will need to pattern the rat. Once you figure out his schedule you need to get a good hide. Check the wind use ample cover scent. Wait for the rat to make his appearance and then shoot him.


    Are you sure it’s a rat could be a raccoon.
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    Any variation of this...


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    Poison really is the best thing. Its hard to get rid of them with just traps

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    Bucky, you've educated me. I've never heard of the good nature deal, and the second video tells me alot. I never considered the rat could be getting caught and pulling free. I figured he side swiped the trap enough to set it off then ate the bait. As of this posting, I think he's gotten trap shy, but I'm gonna give the saw blade deal a shot.

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    You have rats,.....not a rat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 12341234 View Post
    Set a trail camera, you will need to pattern the rat. Once you figure out his schedule you need to get a good hide. Check the wind use ample cover scent. Wait for the rat to make his appearance and then shoot him.


    Are you sure it’s a rat could be a raccoon.
    Definitely a rat or rats. He makes it a point to take a big dump in my glue trap after devouring the bait.

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    Bucket trap is the real deal. Put some straw or hay on the water to make him think it's solid. Put ramp with bait up to bucket, put a tipping plank with bait and wait.

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    After experiencing much of what P wrote about, I figured out much later that my adversary was a gray squirrel.I thought for sure, for weeks, that I was dealing with a rat.

    Then one day, I caught that joker red handed as he scurried off. Soon afterwards, I caught him in there again, but I had a shotgun stashed close by and took are of him as he reached the woods.

    Squirrels have a fine sense of smell. He was after sunflower seeds that were in a storage room located inside my garage. For a while there, that squirrel had it going on…
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    Tom cat traps have worked for me. Peanut butter and cheese have both worked.
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    Like said above. Poison is about the best bet. My method has been to clean the area really really good, get rid of any potential food items, set a couple traps with peanut butter and then put poison out in the area you have seen the rats and also in areas like crawl spaces or attics in the immediate area.


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    Any poison yall recommend? I'm going to try the bucket deal for giggles, but I'm thinking I may have more than one culprit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pcole View Post
    Any poison yall recommend? I'm going to try the bucket deal for giggles, but I'm thinking I may have more than one culprit.
    I can’t remember the name but it’s green and comes in gallon buckets


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    Quote Originally Posted by Quackhead22 View Post
    I can’t remember the name but it’s green and comes in gallon buckets


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    Looks like Tomcat makes it


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    They have good poison at Tractor Supply

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    Cats will work as well. Or get a couple snakes
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    Quote Originally Posted by Colin4 View Post
    Cats will work as well. Or get a couple snakes
    Snakes are too lazy in January.

    If pets are a concern with poison, put it in a bluebird house and lay it sideways on the floor.

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