Please help we have a huge wood rat that lives under our house and tears in to our trash, its starting to get brave and come out during the day, our cats will not even mess with it and it seems to be smart because it will get the food outta the traps unharmed. Please help!!
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If your cats won't mess with it, it's probably pretty big. Wild rats of that size just aren't safe to have around. It's not like the tame ones you see at a pet store. These guys are often carriers of disease and will attack if they feel threatened or feel they are big enough to take whatever animal is there.
I don't know if you can get a live trap for a large rat, a mouse yes, but a large rat, I just don't know. Possibly a raccoon trap would do it.
But once you have relocated it, you will still have the issue of scent. If it is a female, the scent will attract males even if she is no longer there. Plus, she has probably collected food into a nest somewhere nearby and that will attract other pests.
You might need to call in some professional help.
get a cat
So, you don't wanna kill it... Nasty little rat!
You sound young. Kill it ok?
Its a rat! Or tell your mom to kill it!
Don't be poundering people to anwser your question!
The two above me should be ashamed of yourselves. Some people love animals not like you two. If you dont want to kill him get an trap then if u see him chase him towards it then hell be running so fast hell get stuck in it
I would suggest using some sort of poison. If it's a wild rat, and fully grown, there's no way to domesticate it. If it's even frightening your cats, then it sounds like this rat is a health and safety hazard. Remember that wild rats can carry diseases that CAN spread to humans.
You can get a live trap from the Humane Society.
My question is: What are you going to do with it after it is caught?
If you don't want to kill it you are stuck with it. If the rat has figured out how to get the food from the traps then there isn't much you can do. I would go with poison. You can try glue traps. You can take the rat out a ways from your house and pour vegetable oil on him to safely get him off the trap. But I would only do that with mice, not rats. And if you do that he is still likely to come back. If he's that huge I would just kill it. You could call an exterminator, but he will most likely go with poison.
If you don't want to kill it at all...have you tried a live trap? If not, then use one of those and put something sweet in it. Rats love sweet things like chocolate or peanut butter.
Or if you do, but not by hand, put a piece of bread in a regular trap with peanut butter on it, or anything that they'd have to tug at. They like meat too. Put a little chunk of steak or something on it. Rats are very smart. So don't put anything on a trap that they can get off easily.
ther are some companies that will humanly trap them for you. maybe try a different type of trap or move it to another location .had same problem with a mouse and i caught it by putting peanut butter in the trap its had to pick that up and run with it
If you have tried every kind of rat trap, and sticky pad and it still outsmarts those, you may need to call an exterminator.
They should be able to find the source (where the rats living) and kill it from there, that way if it has any babies, those are dead too.
Many humane societies have live traps. After you trap it you need to take it far away to a non-populated area to release.
Easy fix: Get METAL garbage cans with bungee cords over the lids. Rat won't be able to get in and it'll leave after a while.
It's hard to have a dirty little rat in your house, and not want to kill it. Try keeping a look out for the rat, and if you see him, poison him! Spray it 'till he's faint, then lift him into the trashcan, and take that trash bag out immediately. Try killing him on a trash pick-up date, so you can get rid of him immediately.
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