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LScout800

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How do you get rid of them? Conventional traps get a few then the others seem to wise up seeing their buddies get killed. Tried the bucket traps on youtube but never actually caught anything. Don't want to try poison because I have dogs and already had a cat die to eating poisoned rats (neighbors used a lot of poison).

We get a lot of owls around, I have a rat terrier that is always digging up the dens looking for them, and hawks, but we have plenty of fruit trees and there are just too many of them running around at night. They also like getting into my shop and shitting/pissing everywhere, try to patch up the holes but they just chew threw another spot in the drywall/stucco.
 
For the holes in the stucco . Stuff Steel wool into them. Use it as reinforcement in the back of the patch too. When they come back to bite through the steel wool will hurt their gums and they will stop trying.

If you have some C25 or argon, send that into any of the burrow holes that rats make. Dropping a lot of dry ice helps there too.

There are poisons and compounds that make them sterile but I have not at seen them at work.

Good luck
 
New cat.
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pie tins full of crusched swwet cerial mixed with concrete powder where the cats cant get to it. The rats eat the concrete and go in search of water as thier insides start drying out. They die outside and then the wildlife can eat them
 
Put some sweet feed in a bowl. Mix in some cement mix and place the bowl where your pets can't get to it. Place a bowl of water out in the open close by. The rats will eat the mix and go to the water. They won't make it back. Gives new meaning to shitting bricks. :laughing:
 
Poison seemed to work for me, I also tried other things to no avail. Even had rats come back, then disappear on their own in a week because I think they found the lasts rats stored supply of the stuff.

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Rat in the duck coop

We got 5 ducks, and recently a rat has found its way under the coop. Doesnt bother the ducks, but digs a lot of holes. We have poision out where only it can get it, starting to remove food and water at night. It doesnt go near any trap I set out.. Coop is pretty predator proof, hard cloth...
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ANGRYBLACK said:
For the holes in the stucco . Stuff Steel wool into them. Use it as reinforcement in the back of the patch too. When they come back to bite through the steel wool will hurt their gums and they will stop trying.

If you have some C25 or argon, send that into any of the burrow holes that rats make. Dropping a lot of dry ice helps there too.

There are poisons and compounds that make them sterile but I have not at seen them at work.

Good luck
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Use spray foam and steel wool/wire. It works good but they always find a new way in a few months later.
Mr.Ratbastard said:
New cat.
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Have a batch of kittens coming soon.
cj3a said:
What is the food source?
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Fruit trees. Try to pick as soon as possible but the bastards are relentless. Neighbors also have a few lambs and a cow, so I think they try to get at the food for those guys to.
Thumping said:
Put some sweet feed in a bowl. Mix in some cement mix and place the bowl where your pets can't get to it. Place a bowl of water out in the open close by. The rats will eat the mix and go to the water. They won't make it back. Gives new meaning to shitting bricks. :laughing:
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I will give this a shot.
 
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we have field mice here. imagine that, house on acerage in the middle of bfk farm fields. I dont want to have my dog eating the bait so I use these. a couple outside around the foundation, a couple inside the garage and a couple in the shop. just refilled the bait last weekend and already have a couple dead ones stinking up my shop. ymmv
 
when we moved in to our place twenty years ago, we had a self feed dog feeder on the front porch. redneck shit. the kind of box you dump a 20# bag of food in and the dog can push the flap open to eat. it was getting emptied in a couple days. no way our single golden dog was eating that much. found out a couple rats had burrowed right up to porch and were feasting on dog food. :laughing: there was an old hay barn about 100' from the house with a few ancient round bales still in that they were living in. one day I decided to dump some gasoline in the burrow holes by the porch and torch them out of there. I didnt think enough about the bastards running back into the barn on fire. :laughing: i got real lucky when they came out of the hole that my neighbors rat terrier was visiting, they (2 of them) didnt make it back to the hay barn. :lmao:
 
For in the shop/garage I leave a light on and the stereo playing low and have no rats or mice anymore.
No rat/mice turds or pee smell at all.
They think I am in the shop/garage all the time.
 
Thumping said:
Put some sweet feed in a bowl. Mix in some cement mix and place the bowl where your pets can't get to it. Place a bowl of water out in the open close by. The rats will eat the mix and go to the water. They won't make it back. Gives new meaning to shitting bricks. :laughing:
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also baking soda works well also
 
LScout800 said:
How do you get rid of them? Conventional traps get a few then the others seem to wise up seeing their buddies get killed. Tried the bucket traps on youtube but never actually caught anything. Don't want to try poison because I have dogs and already had a cat die to eating poisoned rats (neighbors used a lot of poison).

We get a lot of owls around, I have a rat terrier that is always digging up the dens looking for them, and hawks, but we have plenty of fruit trees and there are just too many of them running around at night. They also like getting into my shop and shitting/pissing everywhere, try to patch up the holes but they just chew threw another spot in the drywall/stucco.
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I was going to say get a rat terrier, but you already have one. Don't feed him for a few days and let him go to town??
 
LScout800 said:
try to patch up the holes but they just chew threw another spot in the drywall/stucco.
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Get 1/4 inch metal screen and attach it along the lower edge around, they won't chew through it.
Also second the idea about cement/plaster + cereal/sugar/cornmeal mix, put in bowl under deck or where dogs can't get it.
 
Slander said:
I was going to say get a rat terrier, but you already have one. Don't feed him for a few days and let him go to town??
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She does not hunt when she is hungry, but when she gets bored. Typically just kills them and leaves them out on the lawn. She does a good job just too many for one dog.
 
They need food and shelter. Since getting rid of the food source is going to be impossible with the fruit trees. Keep the yard free of junk piles and debris. We have horses and I keep the manure pile far from the barn. The barn was built with no hiding spots and is kept clean.
 
They're a little pricey, but after dealing with them chewing up the wires on both Jeeps I left out at our rural property this summer, I'm considering setting one up. I've noticed knockoffs on AliExpress for less than half the price of "name brand." Probably the same Chinese company making them.

 
I have always done the eat-what-you-want style with my dogs, feeder was empty, it got filled
Dog had been real hungry, I dodn't think anything of it
Went to start my bike to get ready for a sand dune trip, the air box was packed full of dog food :laughing:


My little brother had a Jack Russel, he was about 8 and would get the dogs working and they would go to town on the rats. I have no idea how or what that kid did, but him and those dogs would destroy the little critters. There is a picture of him somewhere with him, his dog and a tailgate covered with dead rats :grinpimp:

When I worked at the dairy, I would carry a pellet gun, it made getting up at 3:30 in the morning a little more bearable
 
My weapon of choice has been a crowbar. :grinpimp:

I have killed 7 or 8 Rats in my chicken run in the past couple months that way, I also put some of the black bait stations around and did find two dead rats in the yard after doing that. I haven't seen any since my crowbar and bait station combo has been implemented.
 
But what about ratatouille? Who will make the food? :grinpimp:
 
Lee said:
They're a little pricey...
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I found a random one on the edge of a property downtown like 2 weeks ago, it did look weathered. I just took it to the scrapyard (showed him if legit) & got .15¢ per lb w/other electric motors-
 
This thread triggers me! Moved to a house in the woods, had issues with small mice getting inside and pack rats destroying my trucks outside. Food source was a kid eating snacks in the vehicles and their habitat was my woodpile. I tried every bait/trap I could find to no avail. One good cat ended all of it, even when she isn’t hunting, her hair and smells keep them away.

Truck pic damage happened in under 30 days, second pic is the largest one I’ve seen killed to date.
 

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Keeping your hood up every night would have prevented that nest.
Good to hear a cat took care of it all.
 
Yota Up said:
Keeping your hood up every night would have prevented that nest.
Good to hear a cat took care of it all.
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after that specific fiasco i started doing that, problem is i have a fleet of drivable shitboxes and dont always remember lol. kitty will go into the engine compartments now, i can always tell when she is covered in oil:cool2:
 
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