Rats in the House
 

Does any of you have any experience with having a rat infestation at home? My best friend has a young child and had to move to stay with family last week after calling pest control out to deal with a rat problem. They put lots of trays of rat poison in the affected rooms and one of the trays was emptied (eaten) a couple of days later. None of the others have been touched. But the pest controller put some poison down a hole in the floorboards too. All has been quiet since then. Does it seem they might have died/disappeared? How long does it take to get rid of rats? The pest control will come back next week to check. Of course he knows all about keeping the trays away from the child, we are just curious why only 1 of about 12 or 13 have been eaten!

Um... don't remember exactly what happened, but I remember one of my buddy had that problem 4~5yrs ago. These poison stuff do kill &/or make rats sick enough to make them avoid it. But later down, new one comes back. Worse part is AFTER part. All the dead rats plus their shit in the nest bring bugs and smell to it.

One shit to another shit got my buddy & fam go crazy. In the end, he pretty much bust every wall and floors. cleaned up the mess. It was pretty disgusting scene (so he claims). He wanted to remodel the house, wife didn't let him... but he had excuse. So it kinda worked out in his favor. lol

Hi Jacky Smith - :)

Let's hope your friends rat(s) problem has "gone away".

It's possible that the rat(s) got a lethal dose of the rat poison and have gone off and died.

As long as your friend doesn't see any further evidence (rat droppings) of the presence of rats and the pest control person has re-inspected, I would be comfortable the the infestation has gone away.

Be sure to suggest to your friend gets rid of all the poison traps that the child could get into.

As a test to see if all the rats are gone, your friend may wish to put out a baited , old fashioned "rat trap" out to draw out any rats that have stayed behind.

most importantly, your friend needs to figure out what attracted the rats to the house, AND how they were getting in.

animals don't just happen to exist in a properly sealed, and clean house.

Mmmm, I'm not sure about that.
Yeah, I know these are mice but maybe the mice invited their larger siblings along.


Worst mouse plague in decade hits parts of Australia


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YKo...ture=emb_title
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U175ZmLtF4

I think that this lot found a solution..

https://youtu.be/w8NcffCBhks

seal the perimeter of you home. everything. if you have holes in the yard, stuff them with wadded up metal gutter guard.



my method is one baited trap circled with 5 traps. 100% kill rate with this method using victor old school traps.



my ex roommate has a bloodthirsty outdoor cat living for a purpose. Manx cats will bring you their kills as an offering including birds.

I hear they have some pretty big rats in Australia.

And then they give them pet names like "Skippy"..

All this rat infestation talk brings to mind a back-in-the-day story about when I was managing a 130 acre agricultural research station in California.

Some critters were eating some of the yields in our experimental plots, thus messing up the yield data. I instructed my lead technician to determine what it was and get rid of the problem.

The next day, Frank, my lead technician, brought a 20 gauge shotgun to work and headed out to the back 40 with it. I ask him what he was going to do with that shotgun on our research station, he said that the "rats" were eating in plots and he was going hunting.

Although I thought that was overkill, I said go ahead. The next day, Frank brought up some of his kill. DAMN, I never saw "rats" of that size - :confused0068:

(actually what Frank was hunting were rodents called a nutria)

THE END

Not sure that sealing will work as there will always be some tiny holes left through which rats can easily get to the house. As for traps I would like to avoid killing them. Just pity them :D Better use something more effective and more humane. Like this https://everpest.com/ for example.

I tend not to like putting poison down where other animals (i.e., pets) can be exposed to it, so I found some plans for a bucket mouse trap when I had a similar rodent issue in a house I lived in years ago. This bucket mouse trap can be either kill or no-kill, and it can be assembled pretty cheaply. Here's the link to the instructions (I used a discarded soup can for the roller part of the trap, instead of PVC parts you'll see in these instructions): https://www.instructables.com/Bucket...ll-or-no-kill/

Discovered a raccoon living under the front door stairs.
Don't think the bucket trap will work for those.

Going to look up where I can get some of that Cabin Masters lobster screen to fill the holes.
Out here it's used for shrimp and crab traps.

"Slather yourself in butter and carry a lemon! He's vengeful!"

Rats were always a problem in San Jose. What attracted them most was people leaving out bowls of pet food. That and gardens. I always planted extra tomatoes each year because the bottom ones would get eaten by rats. I've never seen one in the house, but they love the attic and crawl space. Like us, they like food and drink. Make sure you don't have any leaky pipes under your house. Remove any food sources. Poison is good. Make sure all vents in crawl space and on roof are covered. Norway rats are quite adaptive and will forever live in the shadows of man.

Wouldn't chicken wire work as well? - :iono:

That quote, dates you, old man - :D

About 5 years after moving into our current house we had an invasion Norway (brown) rats. These are the wild cousins for "fancy "rats that are kept as pets and are huge. The ones in our house were about a foot long head to rear hunches and about 20 inches head to tip of tail.

The only way we got rid of them was by using kill traps. They pretty much just laughed and ate the bait out of anything else.

Basically we resulted to what @thomasmryan mentioned, the snap type traps that will break your hand if you accidentally set it off. Even with that, we often would find the traps missing, and later find, by smell, where they had drug it off to die.

We also had to find where they were getting in.

There were two places. I gap of about a half inch between the foundation and cantilevered portion of the kitchen floor, and an area of our porch where the builder failed to cap between a brick wall and the internal wall.

We also had to dispose of a couple of nests in a suspended ceiling in our basement that had babies in it.

Today I learned.

Yep. Norway rats are awesome at what they do. Good thing is they are usually very healthy, clean, and carry no diseases. They are exactly the same as at the pet store.

Now squirrels are a different animal. Totally dirty and even carry the plague. A guy I grew up with that worked for county vector control would tell me they aren't worried about the rats. It is the squirrels, and they are fuzzy so idiots feed them.

Evidently in Chicago all it takes to mostly keep them away is a few cats per block. And generally clean neighbors.


The why and the how are the keys.

some days when i get home from work, the squirrels are having a gangbang in my front yard. maybe ten or so at times.



my yard is moss a couple inches thick and it's quite the stash of acorns. in the fall, if i rake them into a pile, the bears crap everywhere from gorging on the motherload. just have to watchout pulling the motorcycle over to the front door.

I suppose "dragged" would be more proper but "drug" is an acceptable past tense of "drag" in informal speech in several US dialects.

Good afternoon! Rats give pleasure to the owners of the home only when they are decorative. However, it often happens that wild rodents become uninvited guests in the house. And if this happens, you will have to make a lot of effort to drive these impudent rodents out of residential and household premises. Fortunately, there are many ways to deal with rats. I also had such problems, but the difference was that I had multiple mice nests in all my garage. I used a lot of methods to kill them but it didn't work. In the end, I decided to call professionals masterspestcontrolsydney that will help me o deal with this problem.





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You'll learn a lot more if taken in large enough quantities.

Today I learned that "drag" has another meaning..

I must be missing something but I don't see how being dragged for any distance would help me learn something unless it's teaches me what it's like to wear women's clothes.

Going slightly off track here, I have noticed some guys wearing masks that definitely don't look like masks... More like ladies undergarments.. masks should be proportional to the size of the face.

There has to be a sweet spot, face/mask ratio.

You obviously haven't seen mrs humfrz under garments - :eyebulge:

:scared0016:

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I have one that feels like the company cut up an A-cup bra.

Wearing it makes me confused.

Adopt a cat, weasel and terrier. Rats won't fuck with yo fam

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Man, those rats are getting really sophisticated.

Looking at xhamster...

I was thinking this actually....more mobile harder to track down.

Well yours includes a receiver so there has to be one sending something from someplace.

Reminds me of the pickle rick episode.

The bot started it!

Man, it's like every other post is a bot that comes back in 4 days to update with some link...

Not gonna lie, I came in here expecting this to be some more political/ vaccine nonsense and not literal rats in the house.