On 28/10/2020 20:29, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:10:14 -0700 (PDT), Halmyre
wrote:
I've caught a couple of ratty things (or big mice at any rate) with spring traps baited with peanut butter. The traps are Rentokil FR51s, got them from Homebase.
We've got an ancient house, thick rubble walls and lath and plaster and there's no way I'm putting down poison, I'd never find the corpse without a pneumatic drill and sledge hammer.
IIRC a spring trap for rats is many times bigger, and with a much
stronger spring, than a mouse trap.
a big rat is as big as a small cat or rabbit.
Normally you need a cage trap for them,
Mice can be amazingly big if well fed on table scraps and sleeping
lazily in house insulation.
Almost up to guinea pig size -0 certainly bigger than a hamster!
When we had cats and lived next to a farm, they regularly caught rats.
The OP should get a cat, or perhaps a Jack Russell terrier.
Great ratters are JRs.
This is a bit like whack-a-mole, but different!
https://tinyurl.com/nraj2cv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLfDPZ2SnlU
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