Dream on - cats are pussies.

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

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.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

SOB woke me up at 2AM this morning. I am not a happy camper.

I bought more "treats" for my buddy today at Walmart. Some David pumpkin seeds, a gooey popcorn ball, forgot to buy a Payday bar (but will do it later).

Poison usually works, and I have some. Problem is it's still almost 90 here and hotter in the attic. If it were cold I would probably chance the stench. I wonder how much will filter down through drywall? I may get a chance to see how tight my house is.....

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Do the string thing, then use bacon fat on it, they like that too

Bacon fat should be a good bait additive. Its odour travels well and it is a nice greasy treat. I used cheese and peanut butter mixed together and tied to the trip lever mostly.

What really bothered me is the live trap failure. I thought they should work but never produced any results. We by the way have farms in our vicinity and about every ten years get some rats in the house.

Some attempt can be made to deny them access but it can be quite a job to do sometimes. They can climb brick and get in through very small places. Or on occasion will make there own access portals. Too bad you have not identified what you actually have yet. If it where rats I would suspect they would be working their way to the lower levels for food alone. Then again geographically there are different specis of them with possible different behavior profiles.