The best way to kill rats?

[lePobz]

A large industial complex was recently demolished at the bottom of my road to make way for a load of new housing estates. The residents of this industrial estate (lots of big brown rats) have decided to take up residence in all the gardens in the area.

My garden has two of them, and i've tried poisoning them but they seem to be completely immune to it (infact, they're getting fat off it). I've no longer got an air gun (it broke) so i'm looking for quick easy ways to kill or catch them.

Any ideas?

 

[Cheomesh]

Boot.

Rat-traps.

.22 long.

Cat.

 

[HunterSeeker]

Get a cat?

 

[CptStern]

just be thankful it's not one of these

you'd need an industrial sized cat


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7149569.stm

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

Ratz!

 

[lePobz]

I have a dog, but she's scared of rats. And cats.

 

[Krynn72]

Bare hands.

 

[AKIRA]

set your garden on fire

 

[Phobie]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

oooooooooooooo

oooooo

do not kill

 

[lePobz]

I know it's cruel to kill them, but ... if I caught them, what would I do with them? They're diseased vermin, even if they're classed as pets by some people.

 

[Phobie]

Humane traps, I had some in my last house for the mice. Once we caught them we just let them go, FAR from the house. They didn't come back.

Though I'm not a huge fan of the wild ones, I still wouldn't have the heart to kill them since I have two pet rats. I think I'd just feel awful haha.

 

[VirusType2]

Nuclear Weapon.


It's the humane thing to do.

 

[The Monkey]

From the guide posted:

Cats are not effective, though they might seem to be. Cats don't kill many rats, if any, but they do frighten them away -- households with cats usually have no rats. But the problem isn't solved -- the rats simply move in next door where there's no cat.

Solution: Everyone in the neighbourhood get a cat, and the rats will leave you alone.

 

[Rapstah]

Punch a Oblivion player really hard in the head while he/she is playing. Then relocate him/her to where you live and give him/her a sword.

 

[French Ninja]

Harvest and domesticate the rats and make them do your bidding.
Ex) take over town hall, capture a nubile fair maiden etc

Senatus Populusque Mus!

 

[AKIRA]

get a mini piano and make the rat play it, then get a cat and buy a large piano, put the rat with the small piano in the large one and make the rat play the small one and make the cat look like it's playing the large one.

if anyone gets where thats from they get a lasagna.

 

[Phobie]

Sounds familiar. Like something out of Tom and Jerry. Those bastards were crazy.

Can I have lasagna anyway?

 

[CptStern]

that is an episode of tom and jerry, it's on my son's tom and jerry dvd collection ..they live in the house of Strauss

 

[lePobz]

So, besides dropping nukes / teaching rats how to play tiny pianos / torching my garden, does anyone have any ideas?

 

[mindless_moder]

why dont you get some rat poison ?.
if all else fails you could go pied piper on his ass..

 

[lePobz]

why dont you get some rat poison ?.
if all else fails you could go pied piper on his ass..

I've been feeding them poison for the past 3 days ... loads of different types (different ingredients) ... They are totally immune to it (super rats) to the extent that they like it, and are getting fat from it.

 

[Phobie]

GOOD.

Traps. Humane ones. Or just get a cat.

 

[Raziaar]

I watched History Channel episode about Traps. There are all sorts of human animal traps you can use to catch rats, allowing you to safely catch them without harming them.

Once you've collected enough of them, you can drop them into a wood chipper to fertilize the garden.

 

[lePobz]

I'm buying a humane trap tonight, but I bet it won't work. Even if it does work, i'll end up getting bitten or catching the black plague.

 

[AKIRA]

Sounds familiar. Like something out of Tom and Jerry. Those bastards were crazy.

Can I have lasagna anyway?

that is an episode of tom and jerry, it's on my son's tom and jerry dvd collection ..they live in the house of Strauss

I don`t know about Tom and Jerry but I saw that on the Bugs Bunny & Tweety show LOL. The owners of the cats got really famous and they ended up playing in a big concert hall till the stupid freaking mouse broke his glasses and ruined the show exposing the hoax to everyone.

It was a funny episode lol.

 

[Raziaar]

I'm buying a humane trap tonight, but I bet it won't work. Even if it does work, i'll end up getting bitten or catching the black plague.

What kind of humane trap are you getting? The ones I've seen on that Modern Marvels episode work great, because they play along with the theory that rats and mice like to move along the perimeter of objects, and find little cubby holes to hide in, and as they move into the little hole, the teeter totter thing locks them inside while resetting to allow more mice to enter in the same way.

 

[Bob_Marley]

So, besides dropping nukes / teaching rats how to play tiny pianos / torching my garden, does anyone have any ideas?

An Air rifle and a piece of something edible which they can't carry off (ie, they have to stay there and eat it). You get a stationary target, so its piss easy to hit them (if you've got your sights zeroed, of course). Depending on how big your garden is, and how brave your rats are you're best bet is probubly heavy weight .22 hollow points (though at more than 10 yards they drop off very quickly, but under that range they utterly splatter rats.) If you're using .177 you'll certainly need to hit the brain or the head though, and probubly with standard .22 as well, as the rats will just shrug it off and probubly get lead poisoning, which isn't very humane.

Also, whatever method you use, don't pick them up with your hands, use pliers or something like that. Oh, and make sure they're dead before you pick them up, or you'll probably get a nasty bite. Which will mean a visit to the doctors.

 

[Raziaar]

Modern Marvels also made the interesting claim that Rats destroy one-third of the world's food supply.

I know they've been called one of the world's most destructive mammals(other than us), but wow.


Another interesting thought... Two rats can, eventually at the end of a year, have fifteen thousand descendants.

 

[lePobz]

Another interesting thought... Two rats can, eventually at the end of a year, have fifteen thousand descendants.

:x I hope it's not a Mrs rat and a Mr rat out there then ... My garden ain't that big.

 

[The Monkey]

Buy owls. They're excellent rat hunters.

 

[Raziaar]

Buy owls. They're excellent rat hunters.

And the future rat problem because people like you do this!


lol futurama reference

Owls
Due to the city of New York's huge rat problem, the breeding of as many owls as possible was encouraged by successive mayors, until the rats were driven out of sight, or exterminated. By the time the last rat was eaten, New New York was overrun with owls, which were eating anything and everything that they could find, as an alternative to the constant diet of rat, rat, rat.

The city has since interrupted its owl-breeding programme, and residents are in the process of evicting the feathered menace to their society.

Many people in New New York use owl traps, some prefer to gas them. The best way to eradicate the owl-problem is for residents not to leave food and/or garbage lying around, which comes hard to some (particularly Fry) and has had a detrimental effect on the feeding Schedule of Dr. Zoidberg.

 

[VirusType2]

Buy owls. They're excellent rat hunters.

Then you just have to figure out how to get rid of all the ****ing owls.

Can I have lasagna anyway?

It's rat meat lasagna.

So, besides dropping nukes / teaching rats how to play tiny pianos / torching my garden, does anyone have any ideas?

lmfao


I bought something called a MiceCube (Look on the internet. its a box with a trap door)and I caught quite easily. See if they have a Rat version. Just put a dab of peanut butter in there. They cannot resist. They will attempt to get the peanut butter at all costs.

 

[TechnoHippyChic]

I bought something called a MiceCube (Look on the internet... See if they have a Rat version.

 

[PvtRyan]

Liger.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

[Use] Fire Axe [on] Rat

I don't know how to use Fire Axe on Rat.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Darkside55]

Whoever's out of hand, I'mma give him handles.

Light 'em up, blow 'em out like candles.

 

[baron insig]

find there nest. and erect a barrier surrounding it, make it so u can make it smaller and smaller,

then just wait silently with a very large rock till one walks under

they are vermin, and need to be killed.

at work a rat got in and was running around it went under a shelving unit and was trapped. we tried to kill it quick by breakint its next with a bar. but it bit the bar so we smashed it to bits using a block of wood.

its a disease ridden piece o mank kill them.

lol first serious post?

and now for the nonserious bit.

EXTRAVAGANT WILL NEVER WORK RAT TRAP!!

involving a seesaw some pvc piping and a wooden box with nails hammered into the underside . infact thats a ****in awesome idea!

PVC pipe fill with food. rat goes in one end.

other end is box with the nails hammered so they stick up.

soon as rat goes in quickly lift up so box uprights.

Rat owned by gravity. rat owned harder by nails!.

you can take photos. and then post them on here. annnnnddd u dont have to pikc up the disease ridden shit known as dead rat!! 10 points!

anyone else have these kind of awesome ideas? no cos im ****in epic!

 

[The Monkey]

And the future rat problem because people like you do this!


lol futurama reference

Rather owls than rats, I've always said.

Due to the city of New York's huge rat problem, the breeding of as many owls as possible was encouraged by successive mayors, until the rats were driven out of sight, or exterminated. By the time the last rat was eaten, New New York was overrun with owls, which were eating anything and everything that they could find, as an alternative to the constant diet of rat, rat, rat.

The city has since interrupted its owl-breeding programme, and residents are in the process of evicting the feathered menace to their society.

Many people in New New York use owl traps, some prefer to gas them. The best way to eradicate the owl-problem is for residents not to leave food and/or garbage lying around, which comes hard to some (particularly Fry) and has had a detrimental effect on the feeding Schedule of Dr. Zoidberg.

As opposed to "Old New York"?

 

[lePobz]

Baron, your idea is awesome. If the not-so-humane traps i've just bought don't work, i'll try yours!

 

[firenbrimstone]

Circle of life and all that.

But seriously,

What about glue traps? They are horribly cruel, but then again so is the Black Plague.