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some moderate success with my rat problem - space-time - 05-30-2014
posted about this on Saturday. I ended up with some glue traps and mechanical traps. I didn't think much when I bought the glue traps, I was in the store and I bought whatever the salesman showed me. But thanks to the wise advice of the MRF community, I decided to not use the glue traps. Those go back to Home Depot next time I shop there.
Victor Metal Pedal Rat Traps on the other hand work great. I caught 2 rats on Monday and one today. it seems the frequency of rat sightings has decrease considerably, I believe (or at least I like to think) there were only a handful of rats and 3 are already gone. I will continue to keep the traps until I go 2 weeks without any sighting or trapping any rat.
The really good news is that the cheese I use to bait the traps does not seem to attract squirrels or chipmunks. not that I am particularly fond of these two species of rodents, but they are not my target at the moment. so far, 3 kills were all rats.
Re: some moderate success with my rat problem - Ombligo - 05-30-2014
Rats are smart - they likely now will avoid the traps. Your work is not done.
Re: some moderate success with my rat problem - what4 - 05-30-2014
Cong-rats!
Re: some moderate success with my rat problem - sekker - 05-31-2014
Round 1 - great!
My battle with mice did not get won until I found their super secret backdoor into my house. That's now closed, and all has been well (and will be fine until they find a NEW way back in!)