There's a Rat in my garage what am I gonna do?

[whiteleggHW77K]

Good news and bad news....
I/we are dealing with the mouse problem in my garage....

However I seem to be having some assistance from at least one rat.
Mouse get caught in trap......not much of the mouse left for me to clear away in the moring, very chewed

Cannot get NV until I have fully cleared the garage...

Don't what to fully clear the garage until I have venomized my HW77k and fitted the vtech silencer. Useful as OH won't go in there, so I can work in peace and her ignorance!

So how to dela with Mr Rat.

Any thoughts.

Was thinking of a bowl of cat food dimmly lit, I then wait at other end of the garage, and hopefully Mr Rat shows himself!! BINGO

[Mousemann]

If you can spare a few days to deal with this problem, clear away all other potential food sources in the area and then put down plenty of bog standard rat poison. Give them loads of it. They gobble the stuff up and then die about five days later.

You can augment with a rat trap or two with a little peanut butter on the trigger, but these things seldom tempt them, and they can be nasty if they spring on your fingers.

Some shops offer a kind of sticky paper for catching them, but that stuff is unbelievably cruel, and not at all reliable. Best thing is to just dose him up with rat poison.

[Bales1983]

I would stake out in the garage,

pull an all nighter and wait for him to show then pop him!


Lee

[woody2906]

If that doesn't work first time you may have to get it accustomed to the light and the bait for a couple of nights first.
Make sure the cat food is nice and mushy or it will grab lumps and run of to safety with them.
I've found peanut butter either on toast or just a dollop smeared on floor to be best but even if you use toast you will have to anchor it down or it will run off with it.
Patience is the key to it.

[LESS THAN FORTUITOUS KENNETH]

It won't be a rat. It will be the other meeces that are munching the ones caught in the traps. If there was a rat, the other meece would have chuffed off.

[Paddy_SP]

It won't be a rat. It will be the other meeces that are munching the ones caught in the traps. If there was a rat, the other meece would have chuffed off.

I agree!

[whiteleggHW77K]

1. Can't use poison as we have two cats, don't want Mr Rat to finally pop his clogs outside and have a) a very sick cat, or b) a rat brought back iside and dropped at OH's feet!

2. If it isn't a rat, then one of my mice has got a very big a**ehole!
Plenty of small droppings all over the place. Discovered a few very large ones (comparitively) this weekend.

Pete

[ikarma70]

very rare to find rats and mice in the same place

[whiteleggHW77K]

That's probaby the last thing the mouse said!

[Andy W]

I wouldn't want to be using an HW77 in the confined space of a garage. Way too much power and your aim point will have to be nearly 2" over Mr. Rats head unless you have the original open sights fitted to your 77. At that sort of range you'd be much better off borrowing someone's Crossman Ratcatcher or an old BSA Scorpion or Webley Hurricane in .22". I know that it's not the done thing to recommend pistols for live targets but at that close a range, I really can't think of any better solution. My Hurricane was very effective in my garden shed. I didn't have a single runner from the 5 rats that I encountered with it in hand.

Best of luck,
Andy.

[Farmerpalmer]

If you can spare a few days to deal with this problem, clear away all other potential food sources in the area and then put down plenty of bog standard rat poison. Give them loads of it. They gobble the stuff up and then die about five days later.

.. and die in pain, and if a cat finds it and eats it - either the poison or the poisoned rat then it may also die.

My sister-in-law just lost a cat in this way and she was devastated.
Personally its one less cat taking the song birds to me.

[clubshot]

Most large Garden Centres do Rat Trap's / Cage

Get a good one will last for years

Do not be suprised if you get more than one

Aware of work associate who had problem with rat's
After trapping a fair number , found out they was coming
out of a cracked pipe side of Shed

As reported Rat's out number humans and in most cases are only feet away
from us at anytime........

Thankfully we do not get to hear or see them most day's..

Never forget that they can be one of the most dangerous annimals to man
if not handled correctly

Best disposal is Fire - Burn bodies

BOB/R

[Hinksy]

all rats are neophobic (a fear/waryness of all new or unfamiliar objects), so when laying traps or poison be patient, they may take a few days to go near them-poison is the way to go, or a mk 4 fenn in a covered run or tunnell.

always take care when disposing off em-you dont want a case of weils disease matey

[Raygun]

Fill car with petrol. Drive into garage.
Leave engine running. Lock up garage.
Pick up gassed mice/rats next day.



ATB
Ray.

[Lash13]

Fill car with petrol. Drive into garage.
Leave engine running. Lock up garage.
Pick up gassed mice/rats next day.



ATB
Ray.

Thats a very good idea