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Rats - glueboards. Help!
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I'm at the end of my tether with "Rat-gate".
I've still had to luck with the traps, but Ratty is still coming in during the night.
Why is he not going for the traps I've laid out? There is no other food available for him, so I am so confused as to why he's not going for the bait (Peanut butter and chocolate). Four bloody traps! FOUR!!
Tonight I am using "the last resort".... glue boards.
I ordered two, which arrived today, but they are quite small. Wish I'd got twenty, now.
Where should I place them and, most importantly, do they work?
My plan is, to hang a bag full of a mixture of peanut butter, poison, glass and chocolate, on the kitchen drawer handle. This is where he grabbed a bag from before, so I know he can get to it.
Underneath, I was going to put one of the glue boards.
I figured if the mixture doesn't get him, the board will.
Will that work?
I've still had to luck with the traps, but Ratty is still coming in during the night.
Why is he not going for the traps I've laid out? There is no other food available for him, so I am so confused as to why he's not going for the bait (Peanut butter and chocolate). Four bloody traps! FOUR!!
Tonight I am using "the last resort".... glue boards.
I ordered two, which arrived today, but they are quite small. Wish I'd got twenty, now.
Where should I place them and, most importantly, do they work?
My plan is, to hang a bag full of a mixture of peanut butter, poison, glass and chocolate, on the kitchen drawer handle. This is where he grabbed a bag from before, so I know he can get to it.
Underneath, I was going to put one of the glue boards.
I figured if the mixture doesn't get him, the board will.
Will that work?
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Like I said Ratter, mine (also from the council) used poison, infact that very poison you mentioned on my post about it, and he came back twice more as well to top up the poison and then take it away completely respectively once we'd gathered mine had finally gone (though still no body!) He also said if id any problems, not ot hesitate to once again call them out.
Can only agree with Ratter Flip, the person you called out seems a bit iffy, you sure it was the council one?
Can only agree with Ratter Flip, the person you called out seems a bit iffy, you sure it was the council one?
The last straw for me was when my little boy took some fruit from our fruit bowl which was on our coffee table in our lounge and he saw teeth marks from the rats. They were living in the cavity wall and getting into the kitchen through a small hole where the waste pipe ran outside. This hole was hidden by the sink unit. It took a week to find where they were getting in.
Lol Ratter @ "Jack Black".
After a long conversation about where ratty was coming from, ratman didn't think it was a good idea to lay down poison. Infact, his words were "if it were my house, I wouldn't do it".
I asked him about traps, but he said they (the council) weren't able to use them, as they couldn't offer a service where they could keep coming round to check them for dead rats.
So, I bought some traps and he helped me set them up, using chocolate and peanut butter.
his last words were "if he's not gone by tonight, he'll be gone by the morning".
He's still here, and slowly chewing through my kitchen cupboards.
After a long conversation about where ratty was coming from, ratman didn't think it was a good idea to lay down poison. Infact, his words were "if it were my house, I wouldn't do it".
I asked him about traps, but he said they (the council) weren't able to use them, as they couldn't offer a service where they could keep coming round to check them for dead rats.
So, I bought some traps and he helped me set them up, using chocolate and peanut butter.
his last words were "if he's not gone by tonight, he'll be gone by the morning".
He's still here, and slowly chewing through my kitchen cupboards.
I Worked in an animal food mill, cow cake, sheep nuts, chicken food etc. more rats than you could dream of. we had the verminex bloke round every week, putting poison down, didn't do much good. someone got a couple of wire cage rat traps, put them near a hole in the wall where the rats came in, soon there was a rat in the cage, it tore itself to pieces trying to escape, blood everywhere, it was demented. much better to shoot them.
Flip the switch, rats are not really scared of humans, so if you sat in the kitchen quietely waiting, with an air gun, left some food on the floor where you would get a good shot, then you would probably solve the problem. I had rats in the animal food mill where i worked come and sit next to me while I was fixing machines at night,( just me, in the dark almost) they sat on their hind parts and held a piece of maize in their front paws and totally ignored me and the workshop cat sitting beside me (the cat made me made feel safe) who was just a bit scared to attack a large rat. the big rat traps don't seem to work very often, but an air gun does the job humanely.
Flip the switch, rats are not really scared of humans, so if you sat in the kitchen quietely waiting, with an air gun, left some food on the floor where you would get a good shot, then you would probably solve the problem. I had rats in the animal food mill where i worked come and sit next to me while I was fixing machines at night,( just me, in the dark almost) they sat on their hind parts and held a piece of maize in their front paws and totally ignored me and the workshop cat sitting beside me (the cat made me made feel safe) who was just a bit scared to attack a large rat. the big rat traps don't seem to work very often, but an air gun does the job humanely.
"Infact, his words were "if it were my house, I wouldn't do it". ",afraid i'd have replied "well, its not your house- so get that friggin' poison down!"
I'm surprised really, id have thought all councils dealt with vermin the same way, but it appears not. Glad i had mine Flip and not yours, despite the smashed coffee canister!
I'm surprised really, id have thought all councils dealt with vermin the same way, but it appears not. Glad i had mine Flip and not yours, despite the smashed coffee canister!
Phone a private pest control company now. Bu**er the cost. Here's a couple who are nationwide and offer a 24 hour service.
http://www.pestcontrol.co.uk/about-us.php
http://www.pest-force.co.uk/
I don't think you can or should have to cope with this alone.
http://www.pestcontrol.co.uk/about-us.php
http://www.pest-force.co.uk/
I don't think you can or should have to cope with this alone.
Rats chew electric cables - they like plastic ! Get this & chuck the lot under floor boards as there will be a 'rat run' there.
http://www.diy.com/se...t-Killer-400g-9436461
http://www.diy.com/se...t-Killer-400g-9436461
Flip the switch,
I killed one with a lump of wood, beat it around the head. I felt really bad about that, it just sat there looking at me almost smiling, I have felt bad about that for the last 20 years. There is a lady somewhere, who sits quietly, and lets the rats come over to her, they get friendly because She moves slowly and feeds them on grain, then she picks them up gently and puts them into a box, and they are taken miles away and let go. She does this for a profession,She gets clients in bread making factories where they cannot dare put poison down in case it gets into the bread. I saw this on telly, quite worrying, as rats carry all sorts of diseases. I suggest, that as rats love maize, you get some maize from the pet shop, get a cat carrier, put the maize inside, sit and wait, and when ratty goes in, shut the door, then take it miles away ( not outsi de my house, thank you) and let it go. About the name, some bloke I knew used to say " I'll never forget old wos is name"
Good luck, get him before his family move in.
I killed one with a lump of wood, beat it around the head. I felt really bad about that, it just sat there looking at me almost smiling, I have felt bad about that for the last 20 years. There is a lady somewhere, who sits quietly, and lets the rats come over to her, they get friendly because She moves slowly and feeds them on grain, then she picks them up gently and puts them into a box, and they are taken miles away and let go. She does this for a profession,She gets clients in bread making factories where they cannot dare put poison down in case it gets into the bread. I saw this on telly, quite worrying, as rats carry all sorts of diseases. I suggest, that as rats love maize, you get some maize from the pet shop, get a cat carrier, put the maize inside, sit and wait, and when ratty goes in, shut the door, then take it miles away ( not outsi de my house, thank you) and let it go. About the name, some bloke I knew used to say " I'll never forget old wos is name"
Good luck, get him before his family move in.
Get a pest controller in to do the job, when I was doing pest controller I would leave the customer with the following advice " the rat will be unharmed and unaffected by the poison for 3 days, this is so the rat will continue to feed and gorge itself on the poison, when it has consumed a massive dose your rat will be dead in another 2 days" Five days it total and if the problem persisted after 14 days I would carry out another treatment. My work was always guaranteed and I would have charged you £45.00. I never had to re-treat a private residence unless it was on contact.
tamborine, You may be interested to know that rats rarely chew plastic, unlike Mice. And just chucking that teeny weeny bottle of Rat poison under the boards will do noyt much more than provide them with a snack.
If only pest control were so simple :)
and Mice are different kettle of fish, they are a lot more difficult to get shot of.
If only pest control were so simple :)
and Mice are different kettle of fish, they are a lot more difficult to get shot of.
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