Pack rats


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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [24.32.202.166] on Friday, September 20, 2013 at 23:41:00 :

In Reply to: keeping mice out of our trucks posted by Jerry in Idaho [24.223.94.244] on Friday, September 20, 2013 at 13:49:25 :

That's my problem, not mice. Two sheds plus lots of old trucks and tarps equals no end of pack rats. I bought a 2-gallon bucket of rat poison bait blocks and the feed store a month ago and fed the whole bucketful to my rats without it fazing them a bit. It was the new environmentally-safe non-toxic rat poison. Sometimes I can catch them in traps, but usually I just shoot them. Got about 10 in the last few weeks. In the fall is when they move in. I use those .22 Colibri bullets with no gunpowder that hit about like an air gun so they don't do much damage to whatever is behind the rat. The trouble is when I leave for the winter, the rats come in and there's nothing I can do about it except leave them poison to eat. Now that the poison is non-toxic, I'm thinking some kind of trap that can keep catching rats all winter would be good. Might need to use something like an old barrel to make a rat-sized version of the spinning-can type mouse trap. Sure will stink in the spring, but better than getting everything gnawed on, p*ssed on, and drug off into their nests. I'm told the best way to deal with pack rats is to get a weasel to live in your shed. Haven't figured out exactly how to so that, though.



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