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We have a rat in our office. We're next to a train yard that runs right to the docks... he must of come from there.
He leaves droppings the size of space marine torsos at their biggest, I am not joking.
So we put poison out... he ate it...and is still alive. Three different kinds. We put out sticky traps - he just leaves fur behind. There used to be a feral cat. We last saw him bloody and leaving the premise.
When he walks around, the ceiling tiles (new ones) bow under him. He has chewed through some seriously thick walls. He is VERY loud when he chews above and, according to one person in the office - a wall panel moves (Loose, and his favorite chewing item apparently.)
I mistook his chewing for someone breaking into the office and going through stuff. The best part? He sets off the alarms in the office. Our local security company said for him to set off motion sensors he had to be a HUGE rat.
We've joked he cuts up rat poison and snorts it like cocaine. That he chased the cat down and finished it off later.
I've recommended using a claymore, or a very over-sized rat trap if we can't get clearance from the local police for explosives. (Obviously a joke...but still.)
WHAT DO WE DO?!
EDIT: I promise pics when its dead. If.
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There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
The responsible choice is to get a bigger trap.
Its irresponsible but I'll still say it. Shoot it. Try a pellet gun and if that doesnt work a 22 short. I would hope you know your back drop better than I do, try not to endanger someone elses life.
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When we had a big arse Rat in our warehouse at work it was quite interesting how Rentokill went about catching him. They said they put a length of barbed wire in a piece of meat, Rat eats the meat the the wire gets caught in its throat. Since Rats lack a gag reflex it cannot remove it.
I personally like to think it worked like a Harlequin's Kiss. Sadly not.
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Read Rats in the Walls by Lovecraft.
Then you will realise just how big your problem may be.
I think the racoon trap is a good idea but monitor it somehow, rats can chew through wire cages if given enough time.
It could be an opossum, which are often mistaken for huge rats.
Good Luck.
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Rat poison rarely kills rats anymore. Hell, it won't even kill a child anymore*
It's just Warfarin, a blood thinner - and in such pathetically low doses it can't kill anything. It's used as an additional method to traps, NOT as an alternative.
The idea is that they are injured in the trap, their blood doesn't clot and they bleed out.
Rats pretty much do cut and snort the current stuff - rather like Motley Crue with a roomful of coke.
*due to several children (and pets) ingesting the pellets and getting very ill (if not dying) to reduce the liability issues, they dropped the percentage of the active ingredient drastically.
I'm OVER 50 (and so far over everyone's BS, too).
Old enough to know better, young enough to not give a ****.
That is not dead which can eternal lie ...
... and yet, with strange aeons, even death may die.
Or make some sort of zapping device (perhaps with a starter motor a battery and some sort of remote) with bait of course, probably the Mc Rib as it would probably be a decent conductor. When the rat starts eating it, flip the switch and you'll zap it. Either killing it or disorientating it enough for a boot to the next office.
And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
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You need stacks of smoke and plenty of aggression. I recommend a live trap like those big ones they use for foxes.
If its bigger than a fox, phone the national guard!
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That poor rattie has taken all you have thrown at it, and still lives. Show the rat the respect it has earned.
Get a decent cage trap and capture him, then let him go a good distance from your office.
Its a rival/nuisance rather than a hostile. Sure it may be angry in a cage but it has the reason to be angry.
Next once you have cleaned up the ducts find and seal the way in.
Dont use poison though, a large dead rat in an inaccessible place is a real health risk.
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Car battery hooked up to some bait. Make sure it's on something rubber so that it'll ground out through him. One thing my dad did was get a garbage can, half fill it with water, then put bait on the end of a piece of wood over the middle of the can. It was secured, but balanced so that when the little bugger tried to get the bait it would drop him into the water, and the weight of the back end of the wood brought it back up so he couldn't use it as an escape.
Admittedly it didn't work, but we had super rats. Seriously, the little bastards ate all my vitamins that were in the garage, and afterwards... smart and unkillable. My brother ended up sitting quietly with his pelletgun in the garage waiting for them... and got nothing
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kronk wrote:We've used rat traps in the office at work. They worked pretty well.
Put one in your ceiling tiles. Put something like peanut butter or chocolate to attract it.
If this rat is half as smart as I think it is, the bait will be gone, and the trap won't have triggered.
There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
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But what if the rats have knitted themselves tiny Kevlar vests with stab plate inserts?
There are some who walk until their legs fail them and they fall to the ground. I find that respectable.
Then there are those who drag themselves further. I find that admirable.
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