Rat in my Shop

Poison

Get the green poison you put in the little house that only a rat or mouse can enter. It will give you extra to refill. Had some refill on a shelf and a rat tore into it. Thank me later.

I had a rat at apartment in college almost 20 years ago. We started with glue traps. There would be hair on them in the mornings but the bastard would free himself. We bought a large classic rat trap. We would put peanut butter on it and the next morning the peanut butter would be gone and licked clean. We battled this guy (referred to as Jerry) for at least 2 weeks with tweaks in bait variation hoping the trap would spring.

Finally one day I had idea to mix some bait in a small packet with peanut butter and actually secure and tape it down it down to the lever. It only took 1 night.

Next morning I come out and trap is flipped but I thought it was empty. When I turned on lights I saw the big dead bastard. It was twice the size I thought he’d be. The trap had just barely clamped down over his face and mouth. I let out a wooooo. My roommate ran out his bedroom door to see. I said “we got him!”


Tl,dr: Try to tape down or secure some bait to the lever on large rat trap. When rat tugs it, it’ll hopefully spring. Good luck.

Check out u-tube videos on how to make the traps that drown the rats and mice out of a 5 gallon bucket, a water bottle slathered with peanut butter, a piece of wire for the water bottle to spin on and a wood ramp for the rodents to reach the top of the 5 gallon bucket.

Interesting concept and they seem to work well.

Secure the trap, as others have suggested.

Or try OneBite, the poison.

Is your shop attached to the house?

My uncle had a few rats in his shop and just cranked the generator in there and closed it up until it ran out of gas. Hasn't seen a rat since.

I had a rat problem on my patio. Tried sticky traps and old style spring traps for a couple of weeks with no luck. Got one of these electric shock traps and killed it within a few hours.

I had one in my shop once. Shot it with a 22. The bastard just looked at me and walked away. I just said, you win.
I did find his body a couple days later.