John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 3:24 pm

hanno wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:04 am

RogueAnt wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:43 am After you've caught the rat then you need to find where it's getting in and block up the hole.

Rats can gnaw through concrete; blocking up a hole is not going to do much good.

You can mix broken glass with the concrete.

And dont forget to add a handful of rat poison.

In Mexico what we'd do is, get a big garbage pail and cover the top with heavy paper or thin cardboard. Set up something that the rats can use as a ladder that lets them reach the top of the pail, but only if they jump the last ten inches or so. Then for a few days you make sure to keep the top stocked with food.

Then one day, you fill the pail with water and put some slits in the paper/cardboard. The idea is, the rat has been trained to jump up to get the food. Now it jumps up only to fall in the water where it eventually drowns.

What's nice about this approach is, you kill lots of rats in one go, and cleanup is easy since the corpses are already in a garbage pail.

But, it is a multi-day effort.

my Khmer wife told me when she was about 10....she and her little sister were hungry....she killed and cooked a rat and was delighted...that would of been in 1995...
she smiles and remembers their feast...
no mom and pop working somewhere....
Kampong Cham memories...
That catch em live trap and then killing them is so bizarre to me....
I guess I like to be laying in bed and hear the trap spring....

In the market you can buy heavy duty metal spring traps,just apply peanut butter and a few hours later you have ratatouille

1$ 4"x7" metal traps....I have roughly 50 kills with them in 5 years....

They even take out the big boys!