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Rats eating my satsumas
Posted on 10/11/26 at 10:50 pm
Posted on 10/11/26 at 10:50 pm
Something has been eating my satsumas. I thought it could be squirrels, so knowing that squirrels are not nocturnal, last night right at dusk I picked up all the satsumas debris on the ground. This morning there was new debris on the ground. So something has been eating them night.
A few minutes ago I went to put out garbage and saw movement in the satsuma tree and saw a rat scurry down a limb to the fence and run along the fence top.
Shooting them is not an option as I live in a subdivision with houses all around. What would be best way to trap them or poison them? I don’t have any dogs or cats that would get into a trap of poison.
A few minutes ago I went to put out garbage and saw movement in the satsuma tree and saw a rat scurry down a limb to the fence and run along the fence top.
Shooting them is not an option as I live in a subdivision with houses all around. What would be best way to trap them or poison them? I don’t have any dogs or cats that would get into a trap of poison.
This post was edited on 10/11/26 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 10/11/26 at 11:17 pm to doublecutter
You may be able Toto do something as simple as lubing the trunk up with Vaseline!
I wouldn’t put any poison out because it will invariably kill something you don’t want it to….even if some cat eats a dead rat killed by poison.
You may just buy some old fashioned rat or mouse traps…..you know what to bait them with!
I wouldn’t put any poison out because it will invariably kill something you don’t want it to….even if some cat eats a dead rat killed by poison.
You may just buy some old fashioned rat or mouse traps…..you know what to bait them with!
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:32 am to doublecutter
Get the T-Rex traps. Or similar. Anchor them with a string.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 4:35 am to 9rocket
Any trap on the ground between the fence and the tree would likely work OP. The Hav a hearts live trap work great, put an orange in there. Then just shoot em, drown them, or release somewhere down the road.
I love the have a hearts not because I have a heart, because I can leave them out with kids, pets, and squirrels and not have to worry at all.
I love the have a hearts not because I have a heart, because I can leave them out with kids, pets, and squirrels and not have to worry at all.
This post was edited on 10/12/26 at 4:36 am
Posted on 10/12/26 at 5:46 am to doublecutter
One Bite poison between the fence and the tree.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 5:48 am to Spankum
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lubing the trunk up with Vaseline!
Water base lube works better
Second the small harshest traps.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 5:52 am to doublecutter
Buy a motion sensor screaming witch fro Walmart. It’ll scare the shite outta anything around the satsuma tree.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 7:16 am to doublecutter
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Shooting them is not an option as I live in a subdivision with houses all around.
Pellet gun, baw.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 7:27 am to doublecutter
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Shooting them is not an option as I live in a subdivision with houses all around
Whisper quiet. I live in a subdivision, but have woods behind my house. I used to shoot rats at night with my Benjamin and it would get the neighbor's dog riled up and barking. Once I started shooting with the Notos, the dog doesn't come barking
Posted on 10/12/26 at 7:29 am to doublecutter
Find a way to put one of those black boxes you see outside Academy. I live in a nice place out in the country (don't want you to think I live in a dump). Rats took up residence in my outdoor kitchen. Pest guy put one of those out and we saw dead rats in the lawn or in my dog's mouth for the next three weeks.
Pest guy said all the food was eaten last week. He filled it back up.
Pest guy said all the food was eaten last week. He filled it back up.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 9:32 am to doublecutter
I had the same problem with a muscadine vine. The rats would leave them alone until they were almost ripe and then chew tons of them off to fall on the ground and rot...
I used some of the Rat X poison that I mixed with peanut butter while wearing rubber gloves. I was able to put it in a tray into a lean-to adjacent to the vine that other critters could not get in easily.
I used some of the Rat X poison that I mixed with peanut butter while wearing rubber gloves. I was able to put it in a tray into a lean-to adjacent to the vine that other critters could not get in easily.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 10:12 am to doublecutter
Get an owl.
I tried to convince my GF to let me put an owl box in one of my pine trees but she balked. Now that she’s been seeing rats in our bird feeders maybe she will reconsider.
I tried to convince my GF to let me put an owl box in one of my pine trees but she balked. Now that she’s been seeing rats in our bird feeders maybe she will reconsider.
Posted on 10/12/26 at 10:20 am to doublecutter
Posted on 10/12/26 at 11:03 am to 9rocket
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Anchor them with a small piece of 2 x 4
Posted on 10/12/26 at 2:34 pm to doublecutter
Possums
Posted on 10/12/26 at 3:38 pm to doublecutter
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Rats eating my satsumas
I've had squirrels eat my figs before but never touched the satsuma's. Unfortunately, the cold weather two years ago killed all of my fig and satsuma trees.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 8:00 am to doublecutter
Smoke them bitches with a pellet gun.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 9:29 am to terriblegreen
Does anyone know of an effective rat trap that won't also kill squirrels? I'm surprised no one has invented a rat trap that's only armed at night. Maybe that's how I can make my fortune.
Posted on 10/13/26 at 1:09 pm to KemoSabe65
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Water base lube works better
Man, it would make me proud to buy enough lubricant to lube a tree trunk!
Posted on 10/13/26 at 1:17 pm to Wilson
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Does anyone know of an effective rat trap that won't also kill squirrels?
an old fashioned rat trap won’t kill squirrels. I am fighting some squirrels in my attic right now. I thought they may be rats, so I bought an old-style rat trap. Squirrels trip it and take the bait every night. It may give them a hell of a headache, but it won’t kill them.
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