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Originally Posted by barry12345
If whatever is up there is well fed it may just ignore the traps. Maybe try different baits but do tie the baits to any spring traps you are using. Also tie the traps to something. Overall after trying many forms of trapping vermin over many years. I preffer the spring traps.
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Yup. You know where the carcass is, if you tie the traps to something - I've seen wounded rats drag the trap under a workbench.
I've read that professional exterminators avoid poison like the plague. It'll kill them but they'll often make it to their favorite hidey hole when they start to feel really ill and die there. And stink to high heaven. I got one out of a crawl space - it had a home up above the subfloor in a space below a book case that was built in originally. Once I located it, I cut away the piece of the subfloor beneath it with my Fein tool (a must have) and lowered the piece of wood with a huge rat on it putting out one of the worst stinks I've encountered. I didn't have my carbon filter mask with me. DOH! When they're in a spot like that, flies don't get too them as soon and they'll stink longer. Flies are actually our friends often as not. Maggots will consume the flesh before it hits the really horrendous stink stage.
The people had put poison out and endured a couple of days of not wanting to be in their house - and they also run their business out of it (personal trainers to the rich and famous). They paid me a bonus and gave me a bottle of wine.
I had to pull another stinker out of a similar spot a month later.
The stickies sometimes work, you'll need to club the sucker yourself to finish the job. Oh well.