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VALKIE:
If anyone does find an effective way, please tell.
My son is always having the damn things eating his car electrics on his farm.

Deefa:
They don't seem to mind the old Worcestershire Sauce! The bottom of the plastic bottle was chewed off and now in the back, it smells of that. They also ate the hole side off a plastic Tuppaware container to eat the whole container of those Smako Beef Straps (beef jerky type) treats i had for the dogs.
So i've set up the water trap with Peanut Paste, and with a healthy sprinkling of Smako dust over the top, and also taken away the snap traps they didn't touch.
Stay tuned!!
Steve.

VALKIE:
We camped next to a creek a few years ago, the rats had never been there before, but were everywhere this particular year.
They ate through my canvas larder, then even climbed a tree to get at a hanging larder we had.
The eskies had chew marks on them as well.

Went to the local bunnings and purchased a couple of different traps.
The snap traps were useless, one even dissapeared, obviously dragged away.
But the metal cage trap was extremely successful.
1st night got 4, drowned each one and tossed it into the bush on the other side of the creek as far as I could throw.
Second night only got 2.
Third night nothing, but got another one on the 4th night.
After that, nothing.
They either got the message or it was only one small nest.
The following years never saw another rat.
I think if you find a way to kill them effectively,  they go elsewhere.
But I carry the trap wherever I go now.

Deefa:
VALKIE what did you use to entice them into the cage?
I've used these before as well but the cages tend to get smashed up when my dogs get at them.
My oldest dog, nearly 18, was licking something under the BBQ trolley this morning. Thought she'd finnally lost it but she was licking cooking oil from the bottle on top of the trolley that had been eaten into and was leaking. So got another bucket water trap set up under the BBQ. When the rats went through my camping gear they went for the cooking oil as well. I've put some oil on one of the water traps to test them. Got one that is wrapped in the Smako's too.
I'm on a mission now! Before they get in the house. I'm surrounded. But I will win. :cup:

VALKIE:
No dogs where we were camped.
But because they were going the bread more tgan anything else, we used bread and peanut butter in the trap.
The first night I was up and down several times, they were jumping on the trap and setting it off, but still caught 4 of the blighters.
After that, they just seemed to walk in.
I drowned them in a bucket of fresh water, they were quite large and very aggressive,  tried to bite me as i picked up the trap.
I used fresh water so the trap wouldnt rust.
Have used it at home when they pulled down an abandoned house next door, got 3 of them in my garage roof.
Its a good trap.

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