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Welease Woderwick
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My godson's family had mice a few years ago and got one of those ultrasonic things and his mum started getting terrible migraines. They stopped using it and the migraines stopped. It may have been faulty but she wasn't taking any risks.
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Gee D
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Thanks Chive, I'll make some enquiries.
And indeed Lothlorien's brother has had much greater problems with possums than we. I think 3 or 4 have died in the roof. At least we've not had that. At one stage, he was thinking of buying a carpet snake and putting that in the ceiling - when the possums had done their job in feeding the snake, he was going to hire the snake to other sufferers. Then someone pointed out to him that snakes weren't exactly house trained and they, too, would stink.
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L'organist
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Don't want to worry you but beware vermin in your roof space: in some older houses the gap between cavity walls is not sealed at roof level and if a rat falls down into the gap ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
First: the noise - horrendous scrabbling and squeaking behind the wall: off-putting, especially if in the dining room.
Second: the smell as it decomposes ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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The Kat in the Hat
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Oh boy, the smell - we had a rat die between the floor boards. Nothing would mask the smell, & we had an overseas student staying.
And then after the smell - the flies!
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Penny S
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I had a rat in the compost bin, and saw it trek across the garden, so went out to buy a humane trap. This was hard. Nowhere local, in the country, had one, only oodles of poison and snap traps. Only in the depths of Sarf Lunn'n was one available. (I had worked out a place miles from houses or farm buildings for release.) I left it out a while for acclimatisation. Then I baited it. The bait vanished, the trap closed, but empty. Then it sprang before I got in the house, and the bait had moved, so I thought I had been careless and reset it. Same again, but the bait was wedged between two bars in a way that couldn't have happened accidentally. Woodmice, I think. They could get between the bars. I moved the trap to an area unfrequented by the mice.
Then my neighbour told me that her mouse poison had killed a rat. Oh well. Waste of £18.
I've lent the trap to a friend.
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L'organist
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Penny S
WHY do you want a "humane" trap?
The world isn't short of rats (would that it were) and they are pests, VERMIN, that spread disease and cause costly damage - maybe not to you but to others who maybe can't afford it.
Diseases carried by rats include: Salmonella, Weils Disease (a type of jaundice affecting liver and kidneys - can be fatal if not treated early), Trichinosis (a roundworm, resistant to treatment) and Rat Fever - a form of typhus.
Rats roam across large territories: they can have a range of more than 3 kilometres.
They prefer meat to anything else and eat other small rodents, including shrews and voles, as well as catching freshwater crayfish and eating hatchlings of waterfowl and hen chicks, if they can get at them.
By all means give away your "humane" trap - but lay in a supply of proper rat poison because where you've had one you'll get more until you deal with the problem sensibly.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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I once had an apartment in an area where the local fire code forbid screen grating over exhaust vents. And so birds would regularly enter the exhaust vent from my kitchen stove and become trapped in the ductwork. Their scratching and flapping in an effort to get out was quite audible. And when they finally died in there, the odor was almost palpable.
Once I turned on the exhaust fan over my stove and ended up with chopped bird all over my kitchen.
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Moo
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Originally posted by L'organist:
Diseases carried by rats include:
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Trichinosis (a roundworm, resistant to treatment)...
Trichinosis is an disease caused by ingestion of the larvae of a trichina worm. It is contracted by eating raw or undercooked pork or game.
AFAIK rats have nothing to do with it.
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rolyn
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I caught a rat in a humane cage once . There was now way I was going to let it out . In fact it would have been unwise to put your fingers anywhere near the cage . God's creature yes , but also a vicious and obnoxious one .
It went in a big tank of water for 10 minutes , (and I felt bad about it).
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monkeylizard
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No rats for me, but I had some mice at my last house. Snap traps worked well and instantly. I tried a sticky glue trap once...never again. Poor thing pulled one leg and half its skin off trying to get out of it. It was still alive when I found it several hours later and dispatched it with a solid whack from a shovel.
I knew it was in the glue trap the night before because my wife heard it squeeking. She had kept me up every night for the previous 3 nights every time she heard the scurrying in the walls or attic so I was exhausted and chose not to get up and kill it. I found it in the state described above the next morning. I could have ended the suffering earlier for it if I had gotten out of bed and finished it off with the mythical Shovel Of Doom. That was 7 years ago and I still feel bad about it. It's not the killing. I don't mind that. Mouse + my house = dead mouse. It was the needless suffering. Same with hunting. I hate when a shot goes bad and the animal is maimed and lives, or dies but only after extended suffering.
Personally, I'd never try to drown a rat or anything else. That's just cruel IMO. Find something fast. A heavy cinder block might work. My method of choice these days would be a .22 pistol with rat shot to the head. It's like a mini shotgun shell. Instant death for something that small.
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Zach82
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I spotted a rat in my kitchen once, and gave him a whack with a large plastic bin that I happened to be carrying without thinking. The poor dear survived that blow and was trying to crawl away, meaning I had to finish him off with more consciousness of my actions.
Oh well, all flesh is as grass. Sigh.
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Belle Ringer
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I am now the owner of 12 snap traps. Web sites say to bait them with delicious food for a week or two before setting. I have discovered rats eat but aren't enthusiastic about snickers candy bars (apparently tootsie roles, snickers etc are great for catching mice). They disdain green beans, love organic carrots, love sweet potatoes, had no interest in the bacon even though web pages say they like bacon - maybe they want me to cook it?
Some say glue traps are great for mice, I don't know anyone who used them successfully on rats. Lots of people say not to use poison because they crawl between walls to die and oh the stink!
They liked the peanut butter but licked it all up without triggering the trap (back when I had just two traps and didn't know I was supposed to have a dozen and turn them into feeding stations for a week.)
So the trick seems to be find a way to get food fixed to the trap in a way they have to fight to get, to trigger the trap.
They ate the sweet potato from most (not all) the traps last night. I'll set them tonight.
(Shudder, that means no real sleeping, listening for trap noise so I can get up and put the rat & trap in the trash before he wanders away dragging the trap somewhere inaccessible if I caught a leg or tail. I hate this!)
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
I have discovered rats eat but aren't enthusiastic about snickers candy bars (apparently tootsie roles, snickers etc are great for catching mice). They disdain green beans, love organic carrots, love sweet potatoes, had no interest in the bacon even though web pages say they like bacon - maybe they want me to cook it?
You are going to catch some FAT rats!
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I was re-reading some of the Aubrey - Maturin 19th century sailing books. Common was for the sailors to catch rats and eat them on shipboard. They renamed them "millers" and found this "soft tack" a welcome replacement for biscuit and salt meat.
I haven't eaten one myself, but my brother who lives in Taiwan does, and one of my daughters says guinea pig tastes like chicken.
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monkeylizard
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Word is out on the rat newswire. Buffet at Belle Ringer's house!
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I killed some baby mice 15 years ago and still feel horrible about it. We caught them in a bag and tried to hit them quickly with a brick to get it over with quickly but it took longer than we thought. Honestly, those little things still haunt me.
Now when we get mice in the attic Gander sets spring traps. For bait he smears a walnut with peanut butter and sort of wedges it on so when the mouse pulls to get the walnut it springs. Spring traps kill (usually) instantly so we have decided that this is the most humane thing.
If they get into the house we don't have to worry about it because the cats get them.
We don't use poison because we are afraid one of our cats (3 inside, one outside) will be poisoned by eating a poisoned rodent. Hawks, owls, and so on are also at risk of being poisoned this way.
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Moo
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
So the trick seems to be find a way to get food fixed to the trap in a way they have to fight to get, to trigger the trap.
Years ago when I had field mice in my basement, I tied the bait to the trap with dental floss.
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Penny S
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Lomg ago, when I was on a holiday job, it became apparent that a mouse was on the loose in the dormitory - the little bite marks on the choccy biccy by someone's bed gave it away. So they put down a snap trap.
We all woke up in the night to the sound of the mouse struggling round on the floor trying to get free by lifting the trap and banging it down. Someone went for a man who dealt with it by hitting it with a broom. Several times. Before taking the whole thing away in a dustpan.
Hence the humane trap. This was an outside rat - and the only one, as it disappeared, no others turned up, and no neighbours saw any sign of another - and I didn't see any reason to kill it as it was posing no problem apart from its presence. If there had been more, or it showed signs of breaching the boundaries of the house, my attitude would have been different.
There were signs it had been living in the compost bin, so I hosed the bin for some time to make it an uncomfortable lodging.
Most of the problems to do with rats are due to us. I'm not going to label a beast vermin or a varmint unless it's doing verminous things, and this one wasn't. (Do they eat slugs, by any chance?)
A friend had them in the house (nowhere near here) - that calls for poison. I'm not going for snap traps - they aren't sure enough.
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Moo
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The problem with poison is that if the animal dies in an inaccessible place, you have to put up with the smell of decay.
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Pigwidgeon
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The other problem with poison is that it enters the food chain. Some other critter might come across the dead rodent, eat it, and get poisoned as well.
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Belle Ringer
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Tie it on with dental floss, what a great idea! One of my problems has been getting bait to stick to the trap so the critter has to work to get it - peanut butter he just licked off without tripping it.
I ended up not setting them last night, I was trying a new food - nuts - to see if I was getting them tightly adhered enough that the rat would pull the trap out of it's place, proving he would trip it.
Rat skipped the nuts, both pecans and almonds - almonds suggested by a pest company on YouTube. Went for the carrots.
Carrots I can tie on with dental floss easily, nuts kept breaking when I tried to jam them tightly into the little square hole in the trap.
One problem, they have changed the bait lever from what shows in the videos - used to be a raised prong you could stick into a food bit, but now it's a depressed little square with no prong to hold the food, and no instructions how to attach food securely.
Dental floss. Thanks!
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L'organist
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Belle Ringer
Try flour and water paste ?
If not that, honey or similar
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Belle Ringer, have you sold the movie rights to this saga yet ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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monkeylizard
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One other trap that I had lots of success with was electrocuting them. There are metal contacts on the bottom and plastic walls that force them to step on both panels when going for the bait. It completes the circuit and ZAP!. Runs on a couple of AA batteries and they claim it can get 100 or so on that pair of batteries. I nailed 3 or 4 with one.
They make larger ones for rats.
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Originally posted by monkeylizard:
One other trap that I had lots of success with was electrocuting them. There are metal contacts on the bottom and plastic walls that force them to step on both panels when going for the bait. It completes the circuit and ZAP!. Runs on a couple of AA batteries and they claim it can get 100 or so on that pair of batteries. I nailed 3 or 4 with one.
They make larger ones for rats.
Jesus! This just gets worse and worse! Why not a trap with a guillotine? I know, I know... rats are vermin! They're like the juvenile delinquents of the animal kingdom, etc. etc. I had a rat or two once myself but then I got a cat and didn't have the rat problem anymore! Electrocuting rats, though!
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Jesus! This just gets worse and worse! Why not a trap with a guillotine? I know, I know... rats are vermin! They're like the juvenile delinquents of the animal kingdom, etc. etc. I had a rat or two once myself but then I got a cat and didn't have the rat problem anymore! Electrocuting rats, though!
Electrocution is probably quicker and more humane than death by cat.
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Belle Ringer
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Last night I was frustrated with the whole thing and couldn't face what to do with a half dead rat in a snap trap at 2 AM. So I just fed them again. Stupid rat(s) didn't even eat the nuts! Just the carrots.
But tonight I was at rehearsal of music I can't stand ("worship leader" seems fond of lyrics with mixed metaphors and non-sense statements written to non-melodic lines) so I'm in a bad mood. So - 9 snap traps are baited with organic carrots (I treat my rats right), it's the one bait I've been able to jam into the trip lever tightly that the rat wants enough to pull the trap out of place tugging at the food.
Baited and set. Bar-B-Q long handled tongs at ready for picking up and disposing of rat and trap.
Now I won't sleep all night for listening.
Movie rights - a horror movie from a rat's viewpoint I hope!
I like the idea of the electric traps. Expensive but apparently effective. Snap traps to often don't kill right away.
New use for the worse of Contemporary Christian Music - put me in a killing mood!
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If you have seriously damaged an animal on purpose, I think you have an ethical duty to kill it even if you find that inconvenient.
Constantly trapping the rats will not help, if you don't stop them getting in the first place. If you are not able to do this, you need to get professional assisstance. If that is difficult to afford, this is one of the things essential enough that it would be legitimate to ask your church for financial help.
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Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
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Originally posted by The5thMary:
Jesus! This just gets worse and worse! Why not a trap with a guillotine? I know, I know... rats are vermin! They're like the juvenile delinquents of the animal kingdom, etc. etc. I had a rat or two once myself but then I got a cat and didn't have the rat problem anymore! Electrocuting rats, though!
Electrocution is probably quicker and more humane than death by cat.
But less natural as well. Interesting choice...
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
Last night I was frustrated with the whole thing and couldn't face what to do with a half dead rat in a snap trap at 2 AM. So I just fed them again. Stupid rat(s) didn't even eat the nuts! Just the carrots.
But tonight I was at rehearsal of music I can't stand ("worship leader" seems fond of lyrics with mixed metaphors and non-sense statements written to non-melodic lines) so I'm in a bad mood. So - 9 snap traps are baited with organic carrots (I treat my rats right), it's the one bait I've been able to jam into the trip lever tightly that the rat wants enough to pull the trap out of place tugging at the food.
Baited and set. Bar-B-Q long handled tongs at ready for picking up and disposing of rat and trap.
Now I won't sleep all night for listening.
Movie rights - a horror movie from a rat's viewpoint I hope!
I like the idea of the electric traps. Expensive but apparently effective. Snap traps to often don't kill right away.
New use for the worse of Contemporary Christian Music - put me in a killing mood!
You fed them?! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) Most animals will go where they know they'll get food and shelter - so one of the things you need to do is to take that away, not give them more of what they want!
There's some good advice on how to get rid of rats here, but it sounds like you've got a serious infestation and will need to pay someone to make them go away.
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Belle Ringer
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
You fed them?! Most animals will go where they know they'll get food and shelter - so one of the things you need to do is to take that away, not give them more of what they want!
Got one! Poor thing.
The YouTube videos by pest control companies listed things to use as bait - like, chocolate for mice, fruits for rats - and said rats are very shy of anything new, so leave the traps out for a week or two with a small bite of food until they get used to seeing the traps as places safe to get a bite, then set them. (They say mice are curious, you don't need to train them to trust traps, rats you have to out-think.)
I've been guessing I had just one in the kitchen? He had gotten bold enough to pull at the food bait strongly enough to pull the trap out of place - that's what I wanted because just licking at it doesn't spring the trap.
Question is whether there are rats elsewhere too of was it just this one running all over the house at night. Anyway, the videos say to keep setting traps for a few weeks after the last one is caught. I need to look into other locations, too. I've been reluctant to set them in carpeted rooms.
I do need to figure out where they are getting in but I've been looking and had my yard guy looking, puzzled, wondering now if they could be coming in through the dryer vent or the roof and chimney?
"Everyone" has mice or rats this year, people who never had them before. We are all wondering why.
I need to unset the traps for the day so I don't step in one!
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Where are you leaving the traps? The most effective place is against the wall as rats a partially sighted so they tend to keep close to the wall when possible, using their whiskers as a guide.
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Belle, you really need to get real life help with this.
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Belle Ringer
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Originally posted by Doublethink:
Belle, you really need to get real life help with this.
Problem is, there's one pest man in town, he shrugged and handed me half a dozen glue traps and left.
I do plan to call him again now that I have caught a few and can better describe exactly what I have. And to treat the termites he forgot to schedule a time to treat!
Been in this house 15 years, never had any of these problems before. Can I blame global warming?
I confess I did stick head in sand for a while hoping the critters would go away - and for several months there was no sign of them. I was again leaving potatoes and fruits out on the kitchen counter over night with no problem.
Well, now it's war.
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Have there been any floods in the wider vicinity? They move away from their usual haunts when something like that happens. Similarly, land being cleared, old buildings removed etc - anything that might have disturbed their old living spaces.
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
"Everyone" has mice or rats this year, people who never had them before. We are all wondering why.
"Everyone" probably always had them but didn'
;t notice. Then someone starts talking about it so they pay attention and realise what those little noises are.
And you can't stop them coming in to a house if they want to, so once they are in the habit you just have to lock up all the food and get a cat. Or a professional exterminator eith Evil Poisons - but that's only temporary, if there is food and shelter they will be back.
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L'organist
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OK Belle Ringer, you have to get serious now, and the most important things to do going forward are these:
- NEVER leave any food out in the open overnight - nothing, nada, rien
- get into the habit of keeping dry goods - flour, dried beans & fruits, biscuits, rice, pasta - in sealed plastic boxes
- make sure you don't leave any plates or dishes with food on them in the open
- check that the lid of your garbage bin fits securely: if it doesn't have a clip put a brick on top
- if you have a garden compost bin DO NOT put any food waste into it until the rat problem has been solved
As for where they are getting into the house, the drier vent is almost certain, plus the chimney if the fire is out.
FYI rats can get through any hole or gap that is as wide as their skull - that's about 1 inch or less.
Go round with your yardman and seal up - using fine-mesh chicken wire behind wood or metal plate - any gaps or holes.
Put traps into ALL the rooms - regardless of carpeting - and keep putting them in until you have had at least one week without catching anything.
I'd strongly urge you to find yourself a proper pest control man - the chap in your local town sounds hopeless: quite apart from anything else, glue traps are totally useless for rodents such as rats.
Above all, stick to the bulleted list above - I know it looks like a pain but you'll soon get used to it: and once you've got rid of the rats/mice STICK to the routine and you should stay pest free.
Good luck.
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Belle, you really need to get real life help with this.
Problem is, there's one pest man in town, he shrugged and handed me half a dozen glue traps and left.
I do plan to call him again now that I have caught a few and can better describe exactly what I have. And to treat the termites he forgot to schedule a time to treat!
I think you should consider finding a pest control person from another town. You might get asked for a higher call-out fee - but maybe not if you suck up and ask for lots of business cards to give to all your friends who've been having problems!
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