Rat in my Shop

Sticky traps work the best

Green poison. Had a big one in my shop. Set the box with poison and some other bars in places nothing else could get to. Left home and came back about 30 minutes later, found rat sitting by wall panting and shot him with pellet gun

Like others have said, this stuff works.

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.

Poisons have many unintended victims.

n California’s San Diego County, rodenticides showed up in 92 percent of raptors.

In New York, rodenticides were found in 49 percent of 12 species of necropsied raptors. For Great Horned Owls, the figure was 81 percent.

A study by Tufts University found that 88 percent of raptors have rodenticide poisoning.

A simple snap trap, properly set, is the safest most specific solution.

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.

Screw a rat. I found a mom with babies in a shed. 11 fricking rat babies. I green poisoned the crap out of that place. The shed sits 20 feet from a canal, it is bound to get rodents, but I don't want rats tearing up my shite.

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.