Help me catch this rat!

[pk_]

I didn’t read all the posts but if you haven’t tried a small piece of slim Jim as bait I would highly recommend that. That always gets the stubborn trap shy rats I have to deal with after customers have attempted to ‘handle it’ on their own. If you use the T-Rex or catchmaster ez set traps there is a little peg that comes down off the top inside of the trap you can impail the slim Jim onto forcing the rat to molest the trap enough to trigger it, no free lunch like they can get with peanut butter.

cut a few tiny pieces of the slim Jim and leave a bread crumb trail to the trap. Do it just before dark.

 

[Billy Goat]

I didn’t read all the posts but if you haven’t tried a small piece of slim Jim as bait I would highly recommend that. That always gets the stubborn trap shy rats I have to deal with after customers have attempted to ‘handle it’ on their own. If you use the T-Rex or catchmaster ez set traps there is a little peg that comes down off the top inside of the trap you can impail the slim Jim onto forcing the rat to molest the trap enough to trigger it, no free lunch like they can get with peanut butter.

cut a few tiny pieces of the slim Jim and leave a bread crumb trail to the trap. Do it just before dark.

Snap into a slimjim?

 

[Drenalin]

If you could somehow live trap the rat, I'd love to buy him from you. He sounds like a perfect fit to release at my in-laws' place.

 

[WRM]

I didn’t read all the posts but if you haven’t tried a small piece of slim Jim as bait I would highly recommend that. That always gets the stubborn trap shy rats I have to deal with after customers have attempted to ‘handle it’ on their own. If you use the T-Rex or catchmaster ez set traps there is a little peg that comes down off the top inside of the trap you can impail the slim Jim onto forcing the rat to molest the trap enough to trigger it, no free lunch like they can get with peanut butter.

cut a few tiny pieces of the slim Jim and leave a bread crumb trail to the trap. Do it just before dark.

That's gold right there! Never thought about a SJ, but I'm usin that one!!

If OP uses this with success, we gotta chip in to get Macho Man and the Squatch in on a pic.

Never mind--photoshop.

 

[GreenNDark Timber]

If you ever catch him and get a picture, post it in one of the Rokslide 2021 photo contests.......No chance anyone beats you!

 

[Reburn]

I didn't read through it all, but if no one suggested yet. You need to get three turtles to offer it. Then it can leave to the sewers to train them in kung fu.

How many turtles?????

 

[Stubborn_bowhunter]

How many turtles?????

Uh oh. I goofed up. Don't tell that rat, or he'll send them after me. Hahaha

 

[Tom_]

If you haven't caught the rat on a snap trap by now. You might not ever. Bastard has probably had a bad experience with one. I like liqua-tox mixed with a little apple juice. If he's still using the burrow, there is tracking powder and it works.

If it's gotten personal and you need to see the body. Cut hotdogs in small pieces and toss them under the deck. Keep an eye on them until one disappers and get a snap there. Especially a trap that you have caught rodents with before, pheremones help.

 

[Dos Perros]

Pretty sure it’s personal. I know I need a body.

 

[Foggy Mountain]

If you know where his hole is and it’s legal a body gripper blocking his exit entrance. Every hole you see, personally I’d prob just shoot it

 

[browning2480]

Ok what is going on here? Rats don’t take the weekend off, so I wouldn’t suggest you do either. I couldn’t sleep last night and now I have gone all day with no news. This can’t be good.

Maybe it is true. Werat that never changed back to human?

 

[Billy Goat]

Op decided to try some 330's.



Someone local should probably go check on him. He is anchored to that hole in the fence.

 

[Kindo]

Have you considered running a neighborhood vaccine program to locate him? Then all you need to do is call in ST-6 for a night op.

Once the deed is done, consider an at-sea burial to avoid any rat shrines under your deck.

Gods speed.

 

[WRM]

Capt Willard didn't kill Col Kurtz in one night. It was a journey of madness that finally delivered each to the other.

 

[Fatcamp]

OP! Come back, OP! Come back!

 

[WRM]

OP! Come back, OP! Come back!

He's gone up the Nung River. Only God knows if he'll be seen again.

 

[Fatcamp]

He's gone up the Nung River. Only God knows if he'll be seen again.

OP has gone over to the dark side. Probably sitting in a dark room sharpening his knives waiting for the sun to set.

 

[sndmn11]

Grandpa was a Cubbies fan. Gone long before 2016, but he was there in spirit.

Op, they make these for rats, too. Might be time.

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@KickinNDishin put some of those in the crawlspace to catch the mice. They instead caught a few dozen Gardner Snakes that me and the equally terrified of snakes plumber and I discovered while trying to solve a leak issue. It was very dramatic, traumatic, and I still won't go in there.

 

[Billy Goat]

I think this was the ultimate witch hunt.


Op found out maters drop on their own, then rabbits eat them.

 

[14idaho]

I thought I had a rat too. My son bought a live trap and so far I've caught 47 rats. One night I had 17 in the trap. Slick trap, trying to remember the name. Best bait is fishy wet cat food. Good luck