Sea Chaser
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Get a cat 
Emergency situation!
- Thread starter Jencourt
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walleyes
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Is there any other kind of cat ??
Cuba Libre
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Yet-- I have a feral cat that scrounges food that will not come closer than 20 ft to humans. .. In return I have excellent rodent control
walleyes
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fish brain
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I would do it this way too. Rats are creatures of habit and hate anything new. I use the un baited trap method with the idea that if there is more than one rat, they will get used to the bait and location as a food source, and keep coming back to that spot even if their friends get whacked. I don't bother washing my traps, as it doesn't seem to effect the trap rate for me. Changing the bait type has more of an affect if I know there are more rats around, but they are not coming to the trap
Patience young Jedi. It may take up to a week for first kill, if its a trophy adult (13",14" nose to end of tail), then another week for second kill. May get a few young immediately but not normal for "smarter" adults, their hunger will sooner or later get them dead. Normally I leave all as was and just add the traps, kills are faster, moving and upsetting stuff in their house makes them nervous and takes longer for the traps to work. There's a reason they are so common on this planet.
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Pastafarian
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I had a rat issue on my boat a few years back. You'll really need to figure out how they are getting into the boat, this helped for me. Make sure your tie downs are off the boat and that your leg is down. I set traps all over my boat and made sure they couldn't get on board by any means. In the end they were climbing up a power cord that I used to run my heater, so I removed this and that was that. I caught a few in standard traps and another one in one of those enclosed poison traps. Good luck!
Jencourt
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Got one last night. Big sucker!!
So now I think I keep trapping for a while before openingit up, pulling side panels to acces wiring troughs,and bleaching everything. My thinking is if I leave it as is, smell included I might get the ones that are living in there.
What do ya think?
So now I think I keep trapping for a while before openingit up, pulling side panels to acces wiring troughs,and bleaching everything. My thinking is if I leave it as is, smell included I might get the ones that are living in there.
What do ya think?
littlechucky
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Good job, you are right on track, no disturbance, reset and watch. May take a few days for next kill as other (s) may be warry now. Remember there IS another (s), their belly's will get them killed, always does. They are there due to food and/or shelter, remove both and infestation will not happen again. Keep us posted. Hopefully they have not ruined anything and its just a stinky cleanup. Otters, mink, squirrels and raccoons are the worst.
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fish brain
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Good point halimark, There must be a food source near by. Is your compost bin, or your neighbor's within 150 feet? garbage cans without tight lids, a big Maple tree ? Any near by food source should be removed or isolated. this will make it less desirable for a new batch to move in, and also make your bait more attractive to the ones that are already there.
Good work on the big one! Was it a male or female?
Jencourt
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Well , maybe I got lucky and just had the one coming in to warm up now and then.
I have not got any more since the first of Jan. Cleaned all the poop out on Saturday and there is no new poop since. Actually no new poop since the bugger got dead.
Keeping traps in and baited but hopeful that they had not taken up residence.
I have not got any more since the first of Jan. Cleaned all the poop out on Saturday and there is no new poop since. Actually no new poop since the bugger got dead.
Keeping traps in and baited but hopeful that they had not taken up residence.
Sorry don't believe 1, never had only 1, sometimes a few weeks till #2 gets brave again, good to keep the traps set, watch the bait closely to see if its licked, eaten or disturbed. Good job, was the challenge sort of fun? Cleanup is not fun I admit, but better than a family of raccoons, man they make a huge stinky mess.
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Reelin In The Years
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Had racoons in my wood shed. The dirty pigs crap right at the entrance to the shed and then crawl in to sleep.
Dirty, stinky mess.
Dirty, stinky mess.
