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uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« on: September 11, 2009, 12:15:34 PM »
Last night I was watering when I saw one of our cats playing with something in the grass.
I figured it was a shrew so I went to check it out.. but the nose and eyes were not a shrew.. and it would have been
a good and fat one.  Well just as I was about to step on it's back to take it out, it ran into a hole between two bricks around our tree.
So I grabbed the hose and flooded the hole until he fell out drowned.  Well his front teeth showed him to be a rat.
So I'm going to have to find it's home and kill any others that are living.

I had never thought we would have rats around here.

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Any suggestions on how to deal with them should I find the burrow?
Or just nuke it from orbit.
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2009, 12:17:31 PM »
might be one passing through or from a neighbors house.

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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2009, 12:24:24 PM »
If he had a hidey-hole to duck into... there's more.

Rat poison.  Traps.  Maybe buy and release a bull snake.  Though that might be bad for your cat.
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2009, 12:32:39 PM »
This will give the cat something to do.
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2009, 01:10:02 PM »
If it was a pack rat nuke from orbit.

Keep an eye out under the hood of your car. If they want the insulation or wires or anything else they are hard to stop.

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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2009, 01:37:26 PM »
We get rats in our neck of hte woods under two conditions:
1. Drought.  They move away from the creeks to seek out water.
2. Freezing temps.  They are looking for someplace warm to hide.

The new rat poisons are terrifically effective.  Just be sure to use in such a way as pets & kids can't get to it.
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2009, 02:03:07 PM »
i bleach and ammonia burrows
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2009, 02:15:24 PM »
After pack rats ate the wiring in my Civic back in the Tucson daze I went to a DIY Pest Control store.  The poison they sold me was supposed to produce phosgene gas when it reacted with the stomach acid in the rat.  I dropped a few pellets into every hole that looked like a rodent made it on the 1 acre property we had.  Must have done its job as there weren't any more pack rat problems for quite a while.  I did make sure that the poison went fairly deep into the holes so our dogs or other wildlife wouldn't be able to easilly get into them. 
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2009, 02:58:58 PM »
I can recommend a skunk hunter.
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2009, 03:05:47 PM »
That is the trouble with dimocRATS, they are everywhere.....
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2009, 03:32:36 PM »
The blue bait-blocks work great.

Toss them in corners where the pets can't reach them, but the rats can.

Tomcat is one brand I see frequently at the major home supply stores.
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2009, 09:24:00 PM »
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bleach and ammonia

create chlorine gas.  It can kill you.

Not recommended.

http://firstaid.about.com/od/hazardousmaterials/ht/bleachgas.htm
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2009, 09:49:57 PM »
Quote from: Two Cold Soakers on September 11, 2009, 09:24:00 PM
create chlorine gas.  It can kill you.

Not recommended.

http://firstaid.about.com/od/hazardousmaterials/ht/bleachgas.htm

it kills rats quite well  windless days it seems to fill the burrow
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2009, 10:05:04 PM »
No kids or free roaming pets?  Rat poison.  Quick, effective, set it and forget it.

If you have small children or pets that could get into it the best thing for a rat is a small pellet gun...provided you don't live in an area making this a bad idea.

You could always try this-

http://www.nixalite.com/ratzapper.aspx
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Re: uh oh I caught a rat in my front yard.
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2009, 11:19:35 PM »
one fall afternoon i saw a rat climb thru my fence carrying a dead chipmunk

he disappeared into a rock pile

2 weeks later it chewed its way into my garage

i live trapped it and gassed it dead with my jeep's exhaust

I think they were moving into new territory from the apt complex up the block
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