[Help] There's a rat in mi kitchen ...

[Wardy's twin]

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Bit of peanut butter sorted this one out in my kitchen...

the human race (well some of it) has a lot to answer for ...

 

[BluesRockDJ]

There was I thinking we were going with a Robert Johnson trip

 

[BiffyBoy]

get a humane trap , bait it with a piece of bread covered with peanut butter and/or nutella. If you poison them they will a) die in your house at a place you can't get to but will smell b) die outside and then poison some other creature as well or in your case your dog. I have successfully caught rats in the garden (10) and mice in the house (4 of them ) which came in when i opened up the the cavity on the outside. Clearly you need to know if it's a rat or mouse as the trap is very diferent in size.

What if the 10 rats happen to be the same rat you humanely let go coming back again and again?

 

[Coldeanseagull]

For potential future reference crunchy or smooth?

Smooth. Easier to apply

This, rats are too large and clever for cats. You don't want ourJR though, at 14 she's not quite as nimble as she once was.

mice are a doddle to deal with with traps and cats

Foxes like a juicy rat, but like most of us, come with their own baggage! Plus most of them in towns are stuffed full of chips and cat food because people feed them.

Since the wife has been feeding the local foxes, the rat sightings in the garden and catches(in the shed) have been zero....the crap on the path each morning is a small price to pay

 

[Simster]

We have foxes under our garden cabin, which I've always felt was a small price to pay because the average fox kills three rats a day apparently, and rats are my 101 like Winston Smith. Oh and we also have a cat.

So imagine my horror two months ago when I caught our cat squaring off with a rat half way down the garden against the fence with next door! I've never seen a rat before or after this incident,anywhere near any of my houses!

 

[Silverhatch]

Our Rat Man suspects that they're coming in through the sewers. He suggested getting a drains company to put in a one-way barrier so waste can get out but rats can't get in.

Definitely replace any old ceramic traps with one way barriers, and like another poster says make sure they’re fitted the correct way.

 

[Justice]

Our old place was next to woodland and rats decided to infest the garage. To bottles of white vinegar into a spray bottle and they left sharpish warning it does stink.
A couple of nights later my neighbour rang me and asked if I had seen rats as they had got into his shed

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[Diablo]

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Bit of peanut butter sorted this one out in my kitchen...

Field Mouse ??

 

[zefarelly]

Field Mouse ??

No, just a common shitter

field mice are tiny, too light to set a trap off. . . . Extremely unlikely to see one in a house anywhere near town . . .theyre rare enough in fields aren't they?!

 

[Diablo]

No, just a common shitter

field mice are tiny, too light to set a trap off. . . . Extremely unlikely to see one in a house anywhere near town . . .theyre rare enough in fields aren't they?!

Field mice are bigger than a house mouse and generally more brown than grey !!

 

[Coldeanseagull]

Field mice are bigger than a house mouse and generally more brown than grey !!

I concur. House mice tails tend to be pink rather than dark...like field mice.
You still don't want them indoors though

 

[zefarelly]

Field mice are bigger than a house mouse and generally more brown than grey !!

I stand corrected . . . ( I was thinking of harvest mice . . . .I'm sure they were field mice when I was a kid . . .) Either way, they're good to cruise around in the garden, but if they come in the house, they're toast.