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Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:28:00 No.985860 View View Reply Original Report

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What happened?

I put a rat trap a few days ago, and today I checked up on it, and there was a big blotch of blood on it, some rat droppings but no corpse or remains to be found.

It's a definitely-break-your-finger kind of rat trap, so I'm baffled here.

Could it still be alive?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:36:00 No.985864 Report

Quoted By: >>985865

Evidently. This would be the reason why /an/ prefers catch-and-release traps to ones designed to kill.

Also, are you sure that you've got rats, not mice?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:44:00 No.985865 Report

Quoted By: >>985866

>>985864
I'm still not entirely sure, I've seen mice in my garden before, but they were way smaller than the rodent I saw a few days ago.

Yet, when I check the internets, it could actually be a 'house mouse'.
Which incidentally, looks a lot like the brown rat to me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 22:52:00 No.985866 Report

Quoted By: >>985867

>>985865
The difference is size. A fully grown mouse could probably fit through a toilet roll tube, where as a fully grown rat couldn't. I only ask to ensure that you're using the right tool for the job.

If you want to try a different method, look into "homemade humane mousetraps", otherwise stick to what you're doing. Here's a tip: rodents love the smell of peanut butter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 23:06:00 No.985867 Report

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>>985866
Actually, I just checked youtube instead and I'm fairly sure now that it's a brown rat.

I'll look into homemade traps though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 23:33:00 No.985871 Report

Quoted By: >>985873

put a bunch of some carbonated drink into a bowl and leave it out. If rats or mice drink carbonated liquid they die

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Apr 2011 23:46:00 No.985873 Report

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>>985871
It may be true that rats can't burp, but they are still capable of excreting gases out their rear. Additionally, I doubt that a rat could drink enough of a carbonated beverage to cause a lethal gas build-up. Additionally, you would be lucky if the rat drank from the pool of liquid before the gas dispersed.

In other words, no.

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