are there any humane rat traps they they can't get out of?

Question

i've tried live traps i have the worlds smartest rats! they get out of the life trap by pulling on the door. I don't want to kill them but I also don't want to be their owner!
keep in mind it has to been humane ( don't want the dog or husband getting into poison)

Answer 1

There are many humane traps that will catch rats. Be sure you have set it up correctly to be sure they cannot escape after.

I lost a pet rat once and tried catching it without a trap(no success), finally put down a humane trap and it was caught within 1 week.

I assume these are wild rats, and not domestic pets that got loose. Once you get them be sure to release them far from your home.

http://www.havahart.com/nuisance/critters/critters_rats.asp
http://www.heartoftheearthmarket.com/animaltraps/animaltraps.htm
http://store.greenfeet.com/itemdesc.asp?ic=9005-00781-0000

Answer 2

Rats and mice carry disease who cares if they die are you risking your health to save a nasty rat? I understand wanting to be humane but it won't end their population to kill the ones in or around your home. Just resort to the old fashion "snap your gone" rat trap, it could save your life! and it is humane anyway they fell no pain it happens to quick, and so does reproduction so what is more important? Any way if they are as smart as you say they will find their way back to you anyway and recruit friends. Good luck!

Answer 3

circulate on your community ironmongery shop. they ought to have them. do not purchase THE STICKY TRAPS! THEY lead them to save on with IT AND the only way you may get THEM OFF OF it quite is to shrink THEIR feet OFF which will for sure KILL THEM. they have traps that are a touch dome. you place meals in it and open the door on it. while the rodent is going interior it swings close and that they are trapped interior the dome. you merely ought to verify it on a daily basis. so as that if it gets in it does not starve to dying or suffocate. that is super you want to save it yet be careful. it quite is a rodent and additionally you at the instant are not constructive it became a puppy. Rats and mice are effective because of the fact they're scavengers and could consume something. they could carry all styles of ailments. If it bites you you ought to get very very ill. i could capture it and then take it some miles out of your place and enable it circulate in a container or something. I actually have a puppy hamster and that i will carry her and feed her from my hand yet often times she bites for no reason so which you by no skill understand what is going to ensue. be careful and solid luck!

Answer 4

yes. I use a trap called "tin cat" to catch mice. I'm not certain they make them larger for rats, but they won't get out of it, trust me. It's metal, so they can't chew through it. I have one very elusive mouse I keep catching and then losing because he's too stinking fast once I open the trap indoors (trying to catch them all before I plug all my walls).

Answer 5

Buy or rent a squirrel trap. As long as the rats are large enough to trigger the trap it will work.

I have used squirrel traps to trap rats many times.

Answer 6

Oh, man, what are you planning to do with them after? Are you really up to letting them loose in the forest (where they can starve or thrive, depending on their own little ratty personalities)?

I think it's best to use an old-fashioned mouse-trap that kills them instantly by snapping down on them. There's some gray plastic ones called "The Better Mousetrap" which makes disposal quite easy, and there's no poison involved.

But if you can handle the transportation duties, then we've gotten some mousetraps that look like little metal tunnels with two flap doors on each end. When the mouse trips one door, they both go shut. We've never had escapees.

Hope that helps.

Answer 7

i had 2 rat's get a way & unfortunetly it was a male & female:-(
before i knew it i had a bunch running around my moms house! i tried everything & i mean everything! nothing worked. so i went & got my self a Rat Terrier! Hence no more problem, he got 1 & the rest took off? somehow they knew their days were numbered. they all just disapeared:-) Now no more Rat's:-)

Answer 8

um...i read this in a book....and it seemed to work with roaches....but it seems a little farfetched....the protagonist's mother made a trail of graham cracker bits from the kitchen to teh door. it's a long shot, but it could work.......maybe.....

BUT WHATEVER U DO, DO NOT KILL THEM!!!! the rats were there first, and it was once their natural habitat before humans destroyed and built over it. If they are smart, their intelligence should be COMMENDED!!! not punished or sentanced to DEATH

Answer 9

There is a type of poison that only affects rodents. www.eradirat.com

Alternatively, you can go for the back-snapper trap, or a shotgun.

Answer 10

Yup...there sure is.....called the bottom of my boot!