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re: Infestation of Rats in attic
Posted on 11/16/22 at 4:05 pm to tgerb8
Posted on 11/16/22 at 4:05 pm to tgerb8
I had a business in downtown Tuscaloosa a number of years ago. A few doors down was a space that had been empty for probably 20 years. When it was sold and the contractor started doing demo we got a rat infestation. I mean rat, not a mouse. Things were probably 12" from nose to tail tip.
We bought some heavy duty snap traps that had a base made from a 1x4". Put out 4 one evening and returned the next morning to no traps. We never found them. I dont know where they went. We bought more traps and screwed them to the floor. You could hear that trap get triggered from 50 feet away. SNAP!!! Ended up killing 42 over the next 2 months.
We also found that a small tootsie roll squeezed onto the trigger, then covered with a little peanut butter was impossible for them to resist.
To the OP, good luck getting rid of them.
We bought some heavy duty snap traps that had a base made from a 1x4". Put out 4 one evening and returned the next morning to no traps. We never found them. I dont know where they went. We bought more traps and screwed them to the floor. You could hear that trap get triggered from 50 feet away. SNAP!!! Ended up killing 42 over the next 2 months.
We also found that a small tootsie roll squeezed onto the trigger, then covered with a little peanut butter was impossible for them to resist.
To the OP, good luck getting rid of them.
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Posted on 11/18/22 at 7:59 am to alphaandomega
quote:I use a small amount of tortilla chips crushed in a bit of cheese.
We also found that a small tootsie roll squeezed onto the trigger, then covered with a little peanut butter was impossible for them to resist.
Posted on 11/27/22 at 6:25 pm to alphaandomega
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Ended up killing 42 over the next 2 months.
I renovated a high school that had been shuttered for a few years after Hurricane Gustav. There were rats, snakes, and lord knows what else in those buildings. I wore my snake boots when we walked down the site.
Called a pest control company we had a lot of experience with. Guy came out and went inside. An hour later, he calls up and says “Mr Prez, you got yourself a problem here.”
He put out every trap he had. He came back the next day and changed almost all of them. I remember seeing this one rat that looked like a fricking small armadillo. It got caught by a snap trap and drug itself about 15 feet down the hall before it died. Took a full week of daily service before we stopped getting multiple hits. Was about a month before it was serviceable.
Some things it’s worth paying someone to do.
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