Got a rat problem?

[JMS]

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!

[Quick Orange]

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

[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. 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

[Blade Wielder]

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.

[JMS]

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!

[Jimbo]

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.

[netsplit]

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

do they come in larger sizes?

[JMS]

Rat electrocution. Cool.

You are soo not PC! I love it!!!

[Bruno]

I used to live in an apartment in which the master bedroom was a room built inside the attic. And the previous tenants had stored food in the attic. And the room itself was insulated with styrofoam.

Any thought of 'humane' traps went right out the window after the critters kept me awake for an entire night. I just wanted them dead.

In the end, I removed the styrofoam that was such a good hiding place.
Then I put up mouse traps, and slow working poison. At first they ate the poisoned grains by the shovel full without effect. But when I mixed 2 different brands, the population suddenly dropped off.

But Matt's suggestion seems great as well. Never thought of it, sadly.

[gugi]

mice are actually very easy to kill. they're just way too curious and have to explore every inch hundreds of times a night.
so what do we have so far? electric chair, poison, drowning, hanging.
how about the gillotene, and the firing squad?
interestingly there is also a patented gas-chamber mouse trap, which for obvious reasons hasn't caught up with the market


the traps we've used were always a cage-type where you really trap the critter fully intact and have the freedom to decide on its destiny. my grandparents favored water-based methods, such as drowning it or pouring boiling water over it.
sometimes a cat was utilized, which seems rather unfair, but again we were in a socialist country where even the lazy get provided for.