Hunting rats is hard!
Whoever said Baltimore rats are stupid. After a couple weeks with the rat zapper we are still without our first catch. They took the food I left out in front as an enticement, but apparently are scared to go in. We're not too worried because so far they are confined to the basement, probably because our dog is so ferocious (see picture). Any suggestions on what to bait the trap with? I have been using dog food and doggy bacon. I thought who could resist? I am starting to suspect that the rats are so well fed they don't need my little morsels, kind of like the sharks in an aquarium who are fed so well they don't eat the other fish. Maybe I need to provide them with some stimulation, like a large hamster tower, and just put the rat zapper at the end. Stay tuned...
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Two words: Peanut Butter.
I posted a blog last week about having rats in our house. So far they haven't ventured beyond the crawl space. I have an exterminator. We're poisioning the little rat bastards. He stopped at Royal Farm on the way to our house last week, came in and declared he was ready to kill, and then he dipped fried chicken into some lethal poison and put it as bait in the basement. He says they cannot resist fried chicken. He uses the same stuff at Lexington market apparently. Sweet. And yes, he said rats are smart. Keep the animals away from the poison and good luck. Does your basement smell by the way? Our whole house smells from having them in the crawl space. Not cool.
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