RATS!

[Damascus]

I get rats in the garden mainly from the local fields, I use a brick, tie stale bread to it and sit n wait!
The brick being to heavy for them to move hard stale bread can’t be removed so they feed there, a nice stationary target and proved very effective over the years!

 

[C_Claycomb]

There were a small but unknown number of rats around my mum’s bird feeders earlier this year. Got a snap trap from B&Q, which proved too stiff for my mum to set. Since we have a cat and the birds, I built a box to put the trap in. The mice loved it….crapped and peed all over it. Caught two or three mice, no rats.

 

[mrmike]

Rat number six today in a week. I set the trap that my gardener found after it went missing a few weeks ago, and it was sprung before I could wash my hands and boil a kettle for a cuppa.
This despite two bait traps being used as the only alternative I could buy in the range, a few weeks ago. I'm almost out of bait, having bought two boxes, and it seems to have made no difference. Snaps are the only effective means. It seems.
I've managed to get a second hand no 4, but the mechanism is too strong for my puny hands, and I've been warned its a complete beast and finger breaker!

Can I ask what type of bait you are putting in the bait boxes? (Grain/block/pasta)