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re: Help getting rid of rats
Posted on 10/31/26 at 9:12 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
Posted on 10/31/26 at 9:12 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
quote:
. If you have dogs or cats the bar needs to be inside some kind of container that only the rats and mice can get into, I used cheap plastic tool boxes and cut a small hole with a hole saw.
Yep
My Doberman ate some of it. Gave her diarrhea for a few days. I was scared I was going to lose her.
Posted on 10/31/26 at 9:24 pm to gumbo2176
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Lots of mention about using various poisons to kill the rats. I'm not a big proponent of that option, and not for any reason other than you just don't want one to die anywhere inside your house------attic, wall, hard to get to area, etc.
I have had to fish two dead possums out of my crawlspace so I get it, but snap traps just don’t solve the problem. They will get the few desperate ones and leave the breeding population. Onebite has eliminated rats on our property altogether. They are extinct. If you have gaps large enough to allow rats to get in your walls, you need to solve that problem first.
Posted on 11/1/26 at 9:14 am to Craigwest
any breed of terrier dog 
This post was edited on 11/1/26 at 9:14 am
Posted on 11/1/26 at 11:58 am to El Segundo Guy
quote:
. The male cat kills the big deer mice/rats. I live in the woods and my cats hunt all of the time except when they're in my house sleeping.
We live adjacent to a large farm pasture. This right here, a male cat, is the answer. Ours is a little tiger, since having him we have not seen any sign of rodents, other than when he leaves his kill in the yard.
Posted on 11/1/26 at 2:12 pm to Craigwest
cats
Posted on 11/1/26 at 2:26 pm to Craigwest
Search YouTube for 5 gallon bucket traps.
Posted on 11/2/26 at 8:21 am to Craigwest
Give the noise devices a try. I have used then in the pass with great success. Make sure you get ones with different sound frequencies, so they don't get used to the same frequency.
Posted on 11/2/26 at 9:01 am to TimeOutdoors
I had plenty of mice and rats.
bird feeder was easy continuous food for them.
Had some piles of wood that they made homes underneath.
They were eating my vegetables as well, which is what made me have to find a way to eradicate them.
I killed 13 of them in 2 nights using the standard snap trap. I just put a little dent in them. They got wise and would literally walk around the traps, which had peanut butter on them.
I used the bucket method, and didn't catch a single one, and had 3 buckets out.
I put poison out where i knew they were living under the wood piles. it got eaten so i know some died from that.
After that i cleared up those wood piles, quit feeding the birds, and the mice problem went away for a little while, then came back and they started eating my vegetables.
traps weren't working, poison wasn't working.
Got a cat.
He's killed probably 3-4x's as many mice/rats as i have in just a few months than i did in about 2 years.
bird feeder was easy continuous food for them.
Had some piles of wood that they made homes underneath.
They were eating my vegetables as well, which is what made me have to find a way to eradicate them.
I killed 13 of them in 2 nights using the standard snap trap. I just put a little dent in them. They got wise and would literally walk around the traps, which had peanut butter on them.
I used the bucket method, and didn't catch a single one, and had 3 buckets out.
I put poison out where i knew they were living under the wood piles. it got eaten so i know some died from that.
After that i cleared up those wood piles, quit feeding the birds, and the mice problem went away for a little while, then came back and they started eating my vegetables.
traps weren't working, poison wasn't working.
Got a cat.
He's killed probably 3-4x's as many mice/rats as i have in just a few months than i did in about 2 years.
Posted on 11/4/26 at 8:21 pm to Deerhunter62
Yep,I had pretty much given up and gave it a shot.
Changed my bird feeders to safflower seed and used those bars.Totally eliminated them all.
Though 2 of them carried those bars onto the engine cover of the car last winter.
That was a nasty smelling surprise.
They were banned in Australia because bromadiolone stayed in the system and when owls and other animals eat them they also bleed to death.
Changed my bird feeders to safflower seed and used those bars.Totally eliminated them all.
Though 2 of them carried those bars onto the engine cover of the car last winter.
That was a nasty smelling surprise.
They were banned in Australia because bromadiolone stayed in the system and when owls and other animals eat them they also bleed to death.
Posted on 11/8/26 at 6:28 am to Craigwest
Do not use poison rats will leave and die off on your property else where leaving other animals to scavenge the dead bodies. You end up killing hawks dogs fox and vultures for no reason. Use traps like others said to do and at least you know its working.
Posted on 11/8/26 at 8:32 am to 91TIGER
Those cats live happy, well adjusted lives too. Those genetically encoded habits have an outlet and you'll have a happy companion. We once had one that would fight off dogs. I watched her whip up two pitbulls and then lay down like nothing happened.
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