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[Sir Tigger KC]

When setting a rat trap, don't hold it at the bait end once you've pulled back the arm and set it. 

Because it oppsing hurts if it accidentally goes off and gets your thumb!     

[dave the builder]

get a cat
the only pain then is the insurance and vet bills

[Varche]

Hmm, you cannot educate pork!

[biggriffin]

Just as well you weren't cleaning a shotgun, with two in the spout.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Put peanut butter on the trap. Most rats cant resist it. I always use a cage trap and catch them live, then baptise them. Depends on location whether that's suitable though. last one I caught had a body a foot long and a tail thicker than my finger, it would have had most cats for a light snack.
I think Ive now made my garden area rat proof, so have had a couple of years of not having to deal with them, thankfully. I hate the fickin things.

[Andy B]

We had a rat in & around our garden the other year. It'd tunnelled under the fencing! 

[BazaJT]

One of my granddaughters had a mouse problem and bought a "humane" mouse trap.Apparently you open it out to reveal a sticky surface which the mouse walks onto and can't get off of,you then remove the trap and mouse to wherever you fancy fold the trap over and stamp on it to kill the mouse This is "humane"?

[Andy B]

One of my granddaughters had a mouse problem and bought a "humane" mouse trap.Apparently you open it out to reveal a sticky surface which the mouse walks onto and can't get off of,you then remove the trap and mouse to wherever you fancy fold the trap over and stamp on it to kill the mouse This is "humane"?

We have those at work

[Sir Tigger KC]

Put peanut butter on the trap. Most rats cant resist it.

Yes that's what I have been using. 

However,  the clever little bastards were managing to lick it all off without springing the trap!    So now I push a lump of lard onto the bait prongs and put a blob of peanut butter on top. 

[dave the builder]

One of my granddaughters had a mouse problem and bought a "humane" mouse trap.Apparently you open it out to reveal a sticky surface which the mouse walks onto and can't get off of,you then remove the trap and mouse to wherever you fancy fold the trap over and stamp on it to kill the mouse This is "humane"?

better than Crucifixion 
" If we didn't have crucifixion, this country would be in a right bloody mess" 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

We had a rat in & around our garden the other year. It'd tunnelled under the fencing! 

They did the same in my garden and then took up residence under the shed. After much messing around with all sorts of poison etc. I dug a trench 1 foot wide and the same depth around the garden and the shed, attached steel mesh to the bottom of the fence / shed, took it down into the trench and then bent it L shaped to go a foot out into the garden. Then filled it all in again. They wont try and bite their way through it because they don't like metal on their teeth.
I was pestered by them, but haven't seen one for a couple of years since doing that. A lot of hard work but it was well worth the effort.

[Raeturbo]

Glad this topic has come up .. there’s a rat in my kitchen what am I going to do?

[Sir Tigger KC]

My house has a void underneath and they've chewed a hole through the concrete block wall and shining a torch through the hole there is a tunnel which goes out under the patio... 

Glad this topic has come up .. there’s a rat in my kitchen what am I going to do?

Get a trap!    Mind your thumbs though! 

[Andy B]

Glad this topic has come up .. there’s a rat in my kitchen what am I going to do?

 

[Raeturbo]

Glad this topic has come up .. there’s a rat in my kitchen what am I going to do?

 

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