Thread: Got a rat problem?

Well I do! I have tried everything from neck snappers, which they wont go near, to those cruel glue traps, you know, the ones they step on and stick to! Cant go any where so they die of dehydration or they chew their feet off to get away. My problem rats just shake those loose! I find them 20 feet from where I placed them with rat hair and foot prints but no rat! I cant use poisons because of our dog Rusty!
I searched every tack and feed store, every pet store and couldnt find anything that would do the trick!
The other day I was at ACE hardware picking up some electrical doodads and thought Why not, lets see what ace has. Well, they had some gimmicky looking device called the rat zapper! A blue one and a silver one. I thought it couldn't hurt to try so I went for the blue one and was immediately warned off the blue one by an ACE salesman. He said the silver one gets rave reviews and no one seems to have any luck with the blue one! I bought the silver one for 60 dollars + tax, I set it up per MFG. instructions. It took about a week before the rats would go near the thing, but when they finally did, I turned the trap on and have killed a steady flow of rats! I am so happy with this little gizmo that electrocutes and induces little rat heart attacks that I thought anyone here with similar problem would like to know!

The website iswww.ratzapper.com and their number is1-888-DEAD RAT!

I hope you all find this information useful!

Man, don't tell the south about this. We already have enough fun with bug zappers. Now a critter zapper? Jeeze...

I had a rat problem once, and I filled a 5 gallon bucket 1/2 way with water, floated a bunch of sunflower seeds on top, so that they covered the water, and looked like a bucket full of seeds, and then put a little ramp going up to the top of the bucket. The dirtly little suckers would climb the ramp, jump in to get a bunch of great seeds, and eventually drowned. Not the most "humane" way, but effective. If I see a rodent in or around my house, I will do everything I can to kill it.

Matt

Originally Posted by mhailey

I had a rat problem once, and I filled a 5 gallon bucket 1/2 way with water, floated a bunch of sunflower seeds on top, so that they covered the water, and looked like a bucket full of seeds, and then put a little ramp going up to the top of the bucket. The dirtly little suckers would climb the ramp, jump in to get a bunch of great seeds, and eventually drowned.

Clever. A similar method is to put a round pole resting over a barrel of water. The rats start walking over the pole, it starts to spin and they fall in. I guess rats aren't too smart.

You can't put poison up high on a sill or something where the dog can't get it? I have a dog and that's what I do.

Rat electric chair, I like that, just wonder what it would do to a Yorkie?

Living out in the sticks we have more problems with field mice, but when I'm up late at night I hear things go bang that sounds like it was made by a critter as large as our 10 lb Yorkie. We put poison in the closet with the hot water heater, seems they habitually make that a hidey hole.

Rat electrocution. Cool.

I get mice now and then that have some secret passageway into the cabinets beneath the kitchen sink. It's there that I keep stacks of pizza boxes with bits of crust and food still left in them. And then there's the garbage, which I'm sure they love.

I occasionally get a mouse with a neck snapper in the house, not for a while though! I think we got them all! Our problem is in our barn where the alfalfa and grain and hay are!

Yes! I too have a rat problem, or had a rat problem. Little buggers were getting into my car engine and chewing bits!! They had almost chewed completely through my ABS cable (or whatever) apparently.

I poisoned the living bejeebers out of them, and things seem to have settled down. But I am definitely getting me a Rat Zapper for ongoing rat protection.

Thanks Mark!

James.

i don't think they're big enough for the politicians down here =(

do they come in larger sizes?