Please help we have a huge wood rat that lives under our house and tears in to our trash, its starting to get brave and come out during the day, our cats will not even mess with it and it seems to be smart because it will get the food outta the traps unharmed. Please help!!
2007-05-29 05:37:13 · 14 answers · asked by courtduck62 3 in Pets ➔ Rodents
Me and my husband do not want to kill it but i would rather kill it than have it in the house, its been here a while but now its brave and its GROSS, so please no smart a#@ answers, im asking the question because i want help! Thanx
2007-05-29 05:50:44 · update #1
If your cats won't mess with it, it's probably pretty big. Wild rats of that size just aren't safe to have around. It's not like the tame ones you see at a pet store. These guys are often carriers of disease and will attack if they feel threatened or feel they are big enough to take whatever animal is there.
I don't know if you can get a live trap for a large rat, a mouse yes, but a large rat, I just don't know. Possibly a raccoon trap would do it.
But once you have relocated it, you will still have the issue of scent. If it is a female, the scent will attract males even if she is no longer there. Plus, she has probably collected food into a nest somewhere nearby and that will attract other pests.
You might need to call in some professional help.
2007-05-29 08:08:19 · answer #1 · answered by ibewhoever@yahoo.com 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you don't want to kill it you are stuck with it. If the rat has figured out how to get the food from the traps then there isn't much you can do. I would go with poison. You can try glue traps. You can take the rat out a ways from your house and pour vegetable oil on him to safely get him off the trap. But I would only do that with mice, not rats. And if you do that he is still likely to come back. If he's that huge I would just kill it. You could call an exterminator, but he will most likely go with poison.
2007-05-29 05:48:37 · answer #2 · answered by kat 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you don't want to kill it at all...have you tried a live trap? If not, then use one of those and put something sweet in it. Rats love sweet things like chocolate or peanut butter.
Or if you do, but not by hand, put a piece of bread in a regular trap with peanut butter on it, or anything that they'd have to tug at. They like meat too. Put a little chunk of steak or something on it. Rats are very smart. So don't put anything on a trap that they can get off easily.
2007-05-29 05:52:14 · answer #3 · answered by Ashley 07 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
positioned on thick gloves, p.c.. them up (nest and all, in the event that they have made one) and positioned them in a pot. Take them to someplace like a hedge, and pa them next to it. positioned the pot on that's element so as that they are in a position to get out.. they are going to discover someplace to stay. Humane traps. classic mouse traps. those are so as of preferance. even with what you hear, mice infrequently carry many illnesses these days. maximum mice will discover ways to steer away from classic traps, so as that they in all probability won't eliminate all of them. additionally canine biscuits or a bowl of hamster/poultry nutrients or some bread will artwork extra effective than cheese; the hceese element is a fallicy. As for glue traps, think of how plenty soreness you'l be in in case you broke each bone on your physique. they're not extra powerful than the varieties reported above.
2016-12-12 05:24:15 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have tried every kind of rat trap, and sticky pad and it still outsmarts those, you may need to call an exterminator.
They should be able to find the source (where the rats living) and kill it from there, that way if it has any babies, those are dead too.
2007-05-29 06:22:15 · answer #5 · answered by The Warden 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Easy fix: Get METAL garbage cans with bungee cords over the lids. Rat won't be able to get in and it'll leave after a while.
2007-05-29 07:47:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest using some sort of poison. If it's a wild rat, and fully grown, there's no way to domesticate it. If it's even frightening your cats, then it sounds like this rat is a health and safety hazard. Remember that wild rats can carry diseases that CAN spread to humans.
2007-05-29 05:44:28 · answer #7 · answered by ruthla8 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's hard to have a dirty little rat in your house, and not want to kill it. Try keeping a look out for the rat, and if you see him, poison him! Spray it 'till he's faint, then lift him into the trashcan, and take that trash bag out immediately. Try killing him on a trash pick-up date, so you can get rid of him immediately.
2007-05-29 08:14:04 · answer #8 · answered by juicystarrr 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
ther are some companies that will humanly trap them for you. maybe try a different type of trap or move it to another location .had same problem with a mouse and i caught it by putting peanut butter in the trap its had to pick that up and run with it
2007-05-29 06:03:11 · answer #9 · answered by vicki j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many humane societies have live traps. After you trap it you need to take it far away to a non-populated area to release.
2007-05-29 06:52:58 · answer #10 · answered by KimbeeJ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋