Old-Biscuit
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hotsparks wrote: I just got attacked...by the RAT.
That little punk is on borrowed time.
I set up 2 live trap cages, 4 trays of poison, 4 snap rat traps and a whole bunch of mouse traps just to get even.
If I could see that little punk I would shoot him between the eyes.
I'm going hunting. It's not big game but the results are going to be the same, he's going to be dead. 
I don't know why....but when I read this I had visions of 'Caddy Shack'
"License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote".
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pkunk
Questa, NM
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I'm with you Old-Biscuit. Between my cats and traps the 22 is just backup these days. Whatever, they are the enemy and they are mine.
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texasrvr
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Had $1500 worth of damage to my car due to rats hoarding dog food. Food gets picked up at night. I also use electronic repelers in the house, barn, and in the Mh. Additionally I use the one bite poison but I use platic bottles and drill two holes so I can wire the poison into the bottle so it cant be carried off. Forces them to eat the stuff in the bottle. Old coffe cans, peanut butter jars etc.
Just so it has a mouth big enough for the vermin to crawl into. The one I keep under the MH is attached to a brick as it has been dragged off and I had to track it down before I did the brick anchor.
I even had a fuel line to my genset chewed over the top of the tank. That was the last straw. Thats when I went into overkill mode. Rats, Mice, and Squrrels (who chew my log house) get poison or pelllet treatment. Besides it improves my marksmanship.
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the_armadillo
SE Texas
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Been fighting rats around the house and mice in the barn most of the summer due to the drought. I don't use the poisons since I've had problems with the vermin eating it and then going to inaccessible places to die and stink as mentioned in earlier replies. Learned a few tricks from the pest control man. I use two different snap traps; old wooden style with hooked style bait holder and some newer plastic ones with a bait well. Pest control expert said he only uses peanut butter. Stated that cheese doesn't work as good. Mix peanut butter with a little bit of a cotton ball for older hook style holder to make rodents tug at bait. Use straight peanut butter on well type holder to make them work harder at getting the bait. I've also been using glue boards too but not much success with them so far.
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sc3283
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Cayenne pepper sprinkled all around the vehicle makes enough stink to keep them away. No harm sprinkling it in tires, engine, etc....has worked for mice, pack rats and squirrels..and possibly coons(4 legged)although I have not seen any coons around here in ages
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SHADOWMCPD
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Here in New York in a place called Zucatti Park we have a large vermin problem that has been growing out of hand for several weeks.
The park is infested by 99% of them. You think any of the solutions here would work on them or should we leave those anarchistic rodents to just eventually feed on themselves?
Guess comments should be addressed to the Mayor of the city as it seems to be more and more his problem lately but some of the ideas to clear out the rats in the MoHo sure sound good for the rats down there, hey they even have a name for em' OWS,
AKA Occupy Wall Street or is it; Oh,******on Wall street?
And you guys thought you had a rat and rodent problem!
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Lowelife
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rockhillmanor wrote:The 'only' stuff that really works.
........or.........
ROCKHILLMANOR....PRICELESS!!
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My Roadtrek
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You might want to read my posts about Pack Rats in Beginning, they may help. Make sure to read the information in the "Mr. Pack Rat" link there.
Pack Rats
"Poison Bait Is Dangerous And Ineffective For Pack Rats!
There are fewer owls and hawks in the Foothills each year, not from the lack of habitat or food, but from the widespread and improper use of poison bait in misguided attempts to control pack rats. The public does not realize that putting out poison bait for pack rats is not only ineffective but it also poses great risk to owls, hawks and other animals."
Poison is safer to use in urban areas, because of the lower population of wild life.
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edited 11/11/11 01:28am by My Roadtrek *
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Retiredblade
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My motorhome has a round plastic plug that you unscrew and the electrical cord goes down through it to the external plugin. While plugged into shore power the plastic plug can't be screwed back in. This is where I think the mouse got in. My wife caught it with sticky pads. The Mouse was about to give birth to a clump of little mice! Glad we got her.
As far as squirrels, I've always had grey squirrels around, in fact, I have five now, I feed them. One year had those American red squirrels (Pinies) they are the ones you don't want. They climbed up my brick house to the gable vent where my cable TV comes in along with my weather station cables and chewed them off! Then got into the garage next door and chewed wires off this fellows cars! Glad they are gone, think hawks got them.
Oh, by the way, I live with a pack rat!!
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MickeyBrennan
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
I don't know why....but when I read this I had visions of 'Caddy Shack'
"License to kill gophers by the government of the United Nations. Man, free to kill gophers at will. To kill, you must know your enemy, and in this case my enemy is a varmint. And a varmint will never quit - ever. They're like the Viet Cong - Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that's all she wrote".
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