there is rat in the wall of my house

[WoodFired Pizza]

might be a mouse but it sounds too big for a mouse. just moved my cat into the house so i know its not coming inside but i keep hearing it scratching from inside of the wall and crawling around and shit. so im guessing i have to crawl under the house or look for the spot on the edge of the house where it got into the wall then set some kind of trap.

 

[expealadocious]

Yeah man... i live on a creek and we get lots of em... fun times. I have some funny stories

 

[SouthernGuerila]

Stickey traps. Poison bait. And the normal old fashion traps baited with peanut butter. I'd avoid poison if you have any pets that might eat mice.

 

[WoodFired Pizza]

yea im worried about the cat getting sick from the rat or that the rat could die in the wall if it eats poison. was thinking about getting an ultrasonic repeller. i should probably just buy regular traps though and deal with it.

 

[redlaser]

For mice and rats I use peanut butter and cheese on regular or glue traps. Only caught a couple of each in a year, but have caught birds and alligator lizards as well. If the trap is in a plastic tube of some sort it cuts down on non target individuals.
Recently it sounded like a large rat was in the attic walking around and it turns out its this yellow bellied sapsucker looking bird that has been getting past some screened vents. From the looks of the rest of the vents it's been going on a while, half are damaged or missing .

 

[svnfingerblades]

theres a fuckin rat in my house too.

 

[noyd666]

down at the shack we used to shoot the fukers with shotguns as they popped out the hot water outlet pipe lol made a mess.tiger snakes liked to come in for water which we did not agree to and fuked them with shotgun. was a fun place the west coast.

 

[deadlung]

my kitty is currently hunting a mouse. but she doesn't kill it, only plays with it until she looses it again. I'm gunna have to buy some traps lol

 

[MJPassion]

My place is a zoo.

My cat brings in chipmunks to play with every once in a while. Brought in a rabbit twice. Caught a magpie but it got away...
She doesn't do much in the house though... I've got Norway rats & mice in the walls and attic, a couple Squirls under the house & woodpeckers and starlings trying to nest in the eaves of the roof.
Seems when I set a trap the rodents just eat the peanut butter without setting the trap off. Sneaky lil shits!

 

[Big-Narstie]

Well my advice would be to talk quietly, don't let it hear any of your business! Or sit it on a stool if u like flying rats better. Can't stand the sneaky barstards.

Spent many a hr shooting long tails as a chavvy

 

[mr.brunch]

Stickey traps. Poison bait. And the normal old fashion traps baited with peanut butter. I'd avoid poison if you have any pets that might eat mice.

Definitely peanut butter on the traps, they love it. Just cleared 5 mice from the shed this way.

 

[CoCoSativas]

yea im worried about the cat getting sick from the rat or that the rat could die in the wall if it eats poison. was thinking about getting an ultrasonic repeller. i should probably just buy regular traps though and deal with it.

I choose traps unless there's alot

 

[EastCoast710]

traps . u don't want a dead rat in your walls stinking your house up

 

[moses wellfleet]

Ceiling cat

Ceiling cat

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[MicroRoy]

I make hinged boxes for rat traps. Then drill a two and a half inch hole in the front. Make them long enough that a cat can't reach in and get its paws broke. Tall enough that the trap don't get hung on top.

Great for squirrels and weasels too.

 

[mowood3479]

Fire a 12 gauge at the sound. Problem solved... Haha
I actually got a call from a buddy this year to come repair his roof.
He'd fired his shotgun at a squirrel in his ceiling

 

[CoCoSativas]

Fire a 12 gauge at the sound. Problem solved... Haha
I actually got a call from a buddy this year to come repair his roof.
He'd fired his shotgun at a squirrel in his ceiling

A buddy fired off 112 nine mil rounds into his own bedroom a few years back. On parole, in canada with a super illegal handgun, weapons ban, lol even the mags were a violation because they were the 30 round ones he got in the states and brought back here. He was in deep shit.

I've repaired countless holes from guns going off inside...

Lol and I was just about to pop in and suggest burn the place down to be sure... yeah I like the Swiss cheese walls better still sorta liveable until it rains

 

[sprinkl]

Seems when I set a trap the rodents just eat the peanut butter without setting the trap off. Sneaky lil shits!

Same here, must've gone through a pound of cheese before I got tired of it and dropped some poison... One day the rat came out and just sat there, my dog going nuts at it, thank god he didn't eat it. I bashed it with a shovel, it looked dead, picked it up it moved again! Next bash cracked the skull wide open and left me with a mess to clean up...

Anyway I've got a cat now who is quite an efficient hunter. Too bad he kills birds as well. And he hid a dead rat under his blanket, it reeked by the time I found it...

 

[Jellyfish]

I once chased a raccoon out of my attic with NOISE.

If you can give your rats an exit route, take a smoke alarm, rig it up to stay ON, and then throw it into their living area.

They'll leave and look for a quieter pad, and your walls aren't full of bullet holes.

 

[Weird]

I got some field rats in my yard and its an issue because my sterile Babylonian neighbors think its a health concern.

I also have shrews, chipmunks and other rodents that simply do not exist in most neighbors yards here because I use 0 chems, pesticides or anything like it.

I hate killing shit, really bothers the fuck out of me these days.

My fucking jack russel sucks at his job too, the only thing it ever caught and killed was a baby rabbit, asshole.

So .. yeah .. fucking rats .. trying to think of a way to eradicate them with poisons and without having to kill them but at some point neighbors will put out poison if I don't.

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