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Dead. One of...confident there is more. This may not be the big guy, but he is big.
The blighter avoided us for three months at least.
Finally a big, standard trap troop him down. He eventually gave into the temptation of food there. Nothing else worked and we did EVERYTHING - including cages and sitting around for him to come out.
Smart. Reminder, our office is next to industrial sector.
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That's a standard Tomcat Rat Trap... slightly bigger than a dollar bill isn't it?
Good sized rat there... not enough for eating but hey....
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We just heard 2 more seperate runs, one of which bowed the roof...this isn't done. Looks like we're fighting a possible small infestation now.
Sarpedons, I'm not in control here. These guys are destroying property. Attempts at cage and removal failed, they simply avoided/escaped those. Once the owner saw them chewing on stuff himself, it was end game. I tried sir.
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Rats reproduce really quickly, so if you've had them in there for months and there's more than one, then you're probably outta luck. My landlord was installing an extractor in my bathroom and I think a rat got into the pipe. I can hear him clanking and scratching around in there, though he hasn't gotten out yet. I just hope he's not sealed in, or he's going to make an awful stink when he eventually dies of thirst.
He has tons of the buggers overrunning his chicken sheds. We tracked ethe main nest down to an old car wreck in the next field.
So we dragged the car off with bulldozer and flattened the wreck just to be sure. Of course the rats went down their holes (as expected).
Here we introduced on of the premier anti rat systems in existence - ferrets!
The farmers mate let his best couple of ratters down the holes and stood back with one of the second best rat killers, a few 12 bores and a box o shells. Sure enough the ferrets made a bloody mess of the rats and terrified the ran out to the waiting guns. Literally shooting rats in barrel it was.
Sadly one of the ferrets didn't make to, triumphant he poked his head out at the wrong time.
Alas such is the price in the war against the under-empire!
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The blighter avoided us for three months at least.
Finally a big, standard trap troop him down. He eventually gave into the temptation of food there. Nothing else worked and we did EVERYTHING - including cages and sitting around for him to come out.
Smart.
Quick measurement shows the rat to be eight pennies from one end to the other.
Or 15.5cm to you metric types
Get more traps
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sarpedons-right-hand wrote:I'm slightly aggrieved that my appeal for clemency was not heard
They are wonderful, smart and loving creatures. At least the domesticated variants are.....
I disagree, they are vermin
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Meh, I've seen bigger. In NYC, we refer to rats of that size as "mice". I'm not even joking, I've seen rats running around the subway that are easily the size of a full-grown domestic house cat or a small dog, if not larger (talking 20+ pound easy).
Anyway, if you can detect their presence by the roof or walls bowing or what-have you, may I make a suggestion: get yourself a decently hefty power drill. Attach the longest, sharpest drill bit you can find, and then go about your day, if you suspect the rat is on the other side of the wall or whatever, pull grab the drill, line it up, turn it on and very quickly drive it through the wall and (hopefully) into the rats body. The internal trauma will kill the little bastard, and for a few moments you'll get to enjoy being a sick SOB who gets off on animal cruelty.
Note: I'm not entirely serious... thats like your last resort option if you end up dealing with a rat king or something.
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JoeyFox wrote:We just heard 2 more seperate runs, one of which bowed the roof...this isn't done. Looks like we're fighting a possible small infestation now.
Sarpedons, I'm not in control here. These guys are destroying property. Attempts at cage and removal failed, they simply avoided/escaped those. Once the owner saw them chewing on stuff himself, it was end game. I tried sir.
And I thank you for at least trying. Ya see, I'm kinda torn here. Yes, rats are vermin, the wild kind at any rate. An old GF of mine used to keep and breed the domesticated kind and they were brilliant pets. Although I did get nervous when she insisted that I strip off and let them wander all over me.....to get used too my smell apparently... These rats were in addition to her 3 Chilean Red Knees and a couple of Scorpians....
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Oh, rats are wonderful, if very short lived, pets. Friendly, smart, cuddly... everything you'd want. You can also leave 'em for a week with food and water if you need to.
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Polonius wrote:Oh, rats are wonderful, if very short lived, pets. Friendly, smart, cuddly... everything you'd want. You can also leave 'em for a week with food and water if you need to.
So they are friendlier, smarter, human children? Neat.
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Polonius wrote:Oh, rats are wonderful, if very short lived, pets. Friendly, smart, cuddly... everything you'd want. You can also leave 'em for a week with food and water if you need to.
So they are friendlier, smarter, human children? Neat.
So I should have a child through a rat, and breed Skaven?
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sarpedons-right-hand wrote:I'm slightly aggrieved that my appeal for clemency was not heard
They are wonderful, smart and loving creatures. At least the domesticated variants are.....
Me also. Alas poor rattie, I hope it was a quick clean end.
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Sarpedons, I'm not in control here. These guys are destroying property. Attempts at cage and removal failed, they simply avoided/escaped those. Once the owner saw them chewing on stuff himself, it was end game. I tried sir.
Acknowledged and understood when you said the rat avoided the cages.
Have you tried a bucket trap? They work because unlike a cage the rat doesnt appear to enter anything and thus doesn't arouse suspicions.
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