Rat in polly

I think this is my rat!! i just cant get rid of it, 4 times now he has eaten the bate and got away, sausage and peanut butter

 

Try some bacon wired to the trap with fine wire. Place the trap so it can only be accessed via the snappy end. Cover it with a n shaped 3 sided timber cover if other animals/birds can access it. Tether the trap with a length of wire.

 

We just put Rat poison down where nothing else can get at it. Sadly I have to tell you that rats do not come singly, so where there is one there are................

 

Yea 2 day I put it on the edge of a shelf and a welly behind it, so he has to come in at the trap end...... there smart though you have to give them that!!

 

Bait the snappy trap with poison and put it in a cage trap.

 

My brother keeps racing pidgeons and has recently had a couple of r-a-t-s around his loft. He bought a sticky fronted mat which is purpose made and once they walk on it they are stuck permanently, but unfortunately still alive. Obviously, they have to be destroyed after. If anyone is interested I'll find out what they're called and where he bought them from.

 

Yea i saw the sticky trap, I dont like rats at all and wouldn't think twice about killing one, but them sticky traps are cruel, very cruel, you can get electric rat traps, and they work off battery's, they work great, you can kill up to 20 of them on one set of battery's nice quick death and a clean kill, no blood and guts, cost about £20 though

 

we had an issue with either rats or mice a couple of years ago and i tried a few different traps. nothing worked for me except the sticky traps.

its a bit cruel but you could keep checking and maybe off them when you catch one on there?

the traps i tried would often be empty oif bait in the morning but also empty of any vermin!

 

Yesterday I laid a spring mouse trap (I think its a mouse now and not a rat) a poison bait, and 2 sticky traps, let the battle commence!!!!
I'm sure its a mouse, because I put a rat trap down and it has eaten the bait loads of times without setting it off, so I think it is too light to set the plate off mind you he should be well fat eating all that peanut butter, I will go down to allotment later 2day and see if it has caught him

 

I got him, it was a mouse, he didn't even get to eat the peanut butter as a last meal

 

I absolutely detest rats... However the thought of allowing anything to die a painful or slow death makes me feel terrible

 

I killed it, it was alive so it was only trapped there for a few hours, im not that nasty I would leave it to suffer, but unfortunately it had to go, all the other traps I set it, didn't work, it was eating all my seeds, and even the ones that managed to start growing as well, I couldn't let it carry on destroying all my work, other wise I may just as well have given up my allotment i would have had nothing to plant.... look how fat it is!!!!

 

I tightly wrap bands of thick polythene sheet dpm around the verticals of my timber staging to stop them climbing and destroying the results of all my hard work, plus there's always something at low level to intercept them.

 

I will take a pic later and show you the bench that the seedlings are on and the covering and how hard it is to cover every nook and cranny

 

I took the fleece off (sorry) but it was covering the whole bench, and it was impossible to make it all absolutely secure (that's how it got under the netting obviously) because it was such a large aria to secure..... anyway I caught another one on the sticky trap so that's 2 now, I hope that's the end of it!!

The polly without the netting