How can you eliminate rats efficiently?My barn and yard is full of them. To make the matters worse, the more I eliminate them, the more tend to come. The issue is that my neighboring houses are both abandoned, making them a rodent paradise since the last time anyone came there was 6 years ago. Poisons from store don't seem to work. They ignore traps.
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>>2770783Imagine gatekeeping the outdoor board on a Uzbekistan home birth forum. Grim.>>2770782Get traps, cats, and poison. Set a bait station and let them get used to it and then sit out with a .22 and a spotlight one night.
>>2770788No shit, bait and shoot works pretty good. Skip the .22 and use a pump action pellet gun. It's still effective, but much quieter. Spread some peanut butter on a fence or wall, sit in the dark, and wait for targets. It's about as close to fun as pest control gets.
>>2770788Cats are actually quite bad at this stuff despite the stereotypes. Dogs are vastly superior ratters.
Poison is your only chance. I hammered 3 inch nails into 2" x 4" boards and put rat poison on the nails. This helped prevent the rats from carrying the poison away. You can tell from the bite marks on the poison cubes how much the rats are eating. Place the boards with poison around the perimeter of your property. Check the boards regularly so that you know when to put more poison cubes on them.
>>2770944Poison, animal control (cat or dog best to have both cats should be at least a deterrent and they’ll get the mice at least), traps, a bait station and shooting them, check and fix all foundations and bury wire mesh. Ultimately it’s a losing war man. Those are all methods just to get rid of this wave. Just when you think you’re on top of it another critter will fill the niche and then you’re fighting coons. Get the coons under wraps and the rats are back. Varmits never end.
>>2770782terriers
Reptiles are pretty good at my place There are bunch of snake and other big lizards at my place and they ate all the rodents Personally I have way more problem with pigeons
>>2770782What state are you in?
>>2771049East Germany
>>2771055Bro don’t look now you’ve got bigger infestations to worry about.
>>2770957Yes.The Rat Terrier wasn’t a recognized breed by the AKC until 2013. It was more a type with a recognized, descriptive name. They were the most common type of dog in the US until the 1950’s, when small farms were replaced with industrial operations. They were popular for this exact reason; pest control. I’ve taken these two ratting at the breeders hobby farm. I have a third one (tri color piebald) that we got from a rescue, but haven’t had a chance to bring her. The two pictured are acktchually half brothers (different side/dad) but are way different sizes, with one at the very smallest and the other at the very largest. They always have a blast ratting, and it’s pretty wild seeing them do what they’re supposed to do. You can tell that they’re naturally good at it.
>>2770987Most people are retards that kill rat snakes and then wonder why they have rat problems
>>2771107Cats kill snakes.I'd get rid of the cats and keep the snakes.
>>2770782Jack Russell
Farm cat.
>>2771420Barn cats can eat a lot of mice, but they can also reproduce, so unless you neuter them you'll have kittens.
Get yourself a mink bro.
>>2771421>>2771420Cats BTFO by the superior species. Guaranteed that cat will eat that one mouse then go take a nap. Meanwhile a dog will kill a few dozen several times a day if given the chance. It’s not even a contest yet cats still manage to lose.
>>2770782literally look on craigslist for free kittens, raise them outdoors by feeding them on the porch till they have reached a sufficient hunting size, then start cutting the rationsthe problem will take care of itself
>>2770795cats are natures serial killersif he just raises them as outdoor cats they will be friendly to him and hostile to all other life forms
>>2772557dog needs grooming care and vet carestray cats feed themselvesyour little pictured dog doesnt work outside while you are gone from home and would die without you feeding and sheltering it.nice try
>>2772601Feels like my cats just kill everything other than rats and mice. Honestly doubting cats entirely these days. Yes, I feed the cats
>>2772604>I like cats better>I am very smartAgain, since you didn’t get it the first time, a cat will only kill one or two mice a day. They are ineffective and have never been used as pest control. It is literally a meme.
>>2770782create a champion from them to cull them:
>>2772755
>>2772557>Guaranteed that cat will eat that one mouse then go take a nap.>Meanwhile a dog will kill a few dozen several times a day if given the chance.The cat is hunting them to eat, the dog is hunting them for sport I am a cat person but the dog takes this time...but now you have a pet to take care of instead of a barn cat
>>2773038What kind of lazy man child can’t handle owning a fucking pet dog?
>>2770782Water bucket with a pvc pipe and wire suspended across like a bridge. Smear peanut butter somewhere in the middle.They slip off the pvc because it rolls on the wire and then tread water until they drown, you can get rid of multitudes in one night this way.Cheap, effective, automatic. Just empty the bucket often otherwise you will get rat stew.
>>2773049Cat owner
>>2772604I always wondered why stray dogs dont exist and now we know
>>2772683>Feels like my cats just kill everything other than rats and miceget an orange tabby or a black catmy cheetoh cant go outside for 10 minutes without bringing back some rodents headorange tabbies are retarded levels of energetic and playful, they get outside and all they want to do is find a moving living creature, any living creature and turn it inside out
>>2772690>They are ineffective and have never been used as pest control.this nigga never been to venice
>>2773119wild dogs do not survive long without a pack in the woods, they almost always depend on eating refuse from farmsstray dogs do not survive without knocking over garbage cansneither type lives more than a month on its own, small dogs are prey in the wild to coyotes, along with large wild dogs( also get killed by hunters like me, if the coyotes dont get it first)none of you have ever raised an outdoor cat, I have, they kill over a dozen small animals nightly if cut loose after dark, this has been thoroughly documented that just a couple half feral cats can impact an ecosystemthey would clear out the rats and then begin ravaging the countryside till they are dragged in by the owner or shot by wildlife management to protect the habitatif you disagree and refuse to post evidence of your claim in response to this post your mother will die from a pitbull attack this week
>>2773312https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cats-are-surprisingly-ineffective-keeping-urban-rat-populations-check-180970428/Now you
>>2773303>cats everywhere>still infested with rats
>>2773338>urbanfailed
>>27707823 neutered cats that get fed enough but not too much to make them lazy. They'll fuck those rodents up siz ways from sunday if you get some feisty ones.
>>2773338Country cats and "urban" cats are almost like different species. A cat that catches its own food looks different physiologically, has different muscle tone, even the fur is more coarse. It walks different because it is at least semi-wild. You can't expect a kitten raised by a wine-drinking auntie to know what the fuck it's doing.
>>2773725urban cats will occationally drop a dead bird in your lapcountry outdoor cats will leave a gophers head on your porch
>>2773338>now youUrban?get rekt https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380
>>2773302I have two black brothers, both about a year old right now. They range for miles out in the bayou but don't seem to do much to the rats. Killed two rats recently myself with traps
>>2774243>don't seem tothats what you are misunderstanding >>2773735>>2772601
>>2773735>>2773734>>2773725>>2773719So, nothing on rat populations huh? Ok.Now ask yourself why in the holy fuck we bred dogs specifically to kill rats when cats had already been around for thousands of years.
>>2774268>he didnt read the article or check the graphis this an ESL issue you are having or is it one of those zoomer "I hate reading any article longer than a twitter post" kind of thing that made you think you would look like anything but an absolute retard for typing that up and hitting post?
>>2774296> However, studies of mammals in suburban and rural areas found that 75–100% of mammalian prey were native mice, shrews, voles, squirrels and rabbits26,30,31
40 year old banned pesticides, where if the bottle breaks your dead before you get 10ft away from it, have always worked for me in removing unwanted animals on my property.
>>2770782Just buy a dog.Poison is dangerous for other species. And traps are dangerous for yourself. Having to physically handle rats is a recipe for disaster. The fleas can transmit the rabies.Cats won't work. Rats are often their sice, and can face them. Buy a dog to try to scare them. Some breeds can hunt them down. A neighbour of mine had some terriers and they killed one or two rats each few days.
>>2773087This, watch Shawn Woods; he has some videos on that kind of trap. When you dump the dead mice and rats it brings in predators too. I'd say get one of those fancy CO2 ones but damn you'll be scooping the rats away all the time as well as replacing the CO2 canister. And those are like $150 lol holy shit.>>2774864>cat sized ratsHORRORS BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION
>>2770795>>2772557>>2772690>>2773338you faggots are so retarded it's not even funny
>>2770782Put the poison in a bowl higher up than dpgs can reach and tape it down so the rats don't knock it down.
>>2770782napalm the barn and yard ez fix
>>2776858Dang, you totally got ‘em! Good job!
>>2770783No you, unironically.
>>2770782Tougher usury laws.
>>2772690Cats are good pest control because they require almost no attention and feed themselves hunting. Cats keep the number of pests down. Once you have a full infestation on hand you can either get more cats and wait or you can employ other means like poison or purpose bred dogs.
I've been looking for this one reply about a civilization that had a hyphenated name. They burned their villages every 3 generations, likely because of rats. I've tried Google and can't find them. Does anyone else know?
>>2770782>what is a cat
>>2770782Birth control in lots of deicious treats.
>>2777336They are FUCKING not you retarded trump loving catfaggot they are LITERALLY useless for ANY kind of pest control AT ALL and you are FUCKING stupid for thinking otherwoseCATSDONOTHUNTRODENTS
>>2778976A lazy, useless animal that will never eat rodents as quickly as they breed. The history goes something like this:>humans start agriculture >rodents start eating stored grain>wild cats show up to eat the rodents>people domesticate the cats because they’re kind of cool and fun to have around>the rodent issue never improves
>>2779079>>2779063Dude go touch grass, you are fucking shaking irl rn, seething and shitting your pants and flicking flecks of spittle on your keyboard about cats eating rats. Get yourself a rat terrier and let me keep my barn full of based kots
>>2773049If you enjoy vacations, having a life or in general not having to rush home every few hours to feed the poop machine then yeah dogs are a PITA
>>2777342https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_house_horizonThis? The Cucuteni-Trypillian?
Get a piece of pipe drill a hole at each run a wire through and up through the holes and twist it off. Take one end out an feed a bunch of baits on there then pop it back through the hole. Rats can go in the pipe and have a feed on the bait but nothing else can get to it an they can't drag bait off somewhere else. Keep checking every few days and feeding the little pricks bait until it stops being eaten. The pipes that plastic wrap for bailage comes on perfect for it if you have them lying around
>>2773087This concept but with a bucket of oil. The tried and true redneck rat trap is a Home Depot bucket half filled with oil with a yardstick leading up to it.
>>2770782Granny has a solution
>have rat problems after the summer rain one year>remove all food sources>set out traps>get two barn cats that are good mousers supposedly>the cats do nothing but kill songbirds and squirrels>eventually the rats start returning, trying to find food in my house>cats continue to do nothing except kill songbirds and squirrels>the cats also beg for food constantly though I feed them three times a day>cut back on their food slightly so maybe they'll hunt nice and rats>they begin murdering baby chickensWorthless beggars, murderers and torturers of innocent wildlife
>>2779113Funny because you don’t have a barn or barn cats, but I have three Ratties (and a worthless cat)
>>2779950This, cats DO NOT and HAVE NEVER hunted rodents in any way EVER the ONLY thing they do is unnaturally kill BIRDS and other INNOCENT animals!
>>2780050>muh burdirionose!!111stop idly fantasizing about going outside, and actually go outside.also go interact with people and develop some basic social skills.
>>2770782Cats dunbass
>>2780050My dog(germshep) has a massively higher rodent killcount than our cats(mixed), but she isn't innocent, she kills alot of chipmunks, too.I believe each have their place;Our dog is better for outside, she's a killing machine, but she lacks finesse. She can drive herself crazy when she can't get at them, and when she loses her patience, she can become destructive to property trying to get them.The cats work better inside, if the mouse is hiding, they will quietly wait, and wait, until it exposes itself, its a much more acceptable strategy for work in confined or cluttered spaces.
>>2779922This must be it. Thank you so much.
>>2779959Prolly because you cut it's balls off, amiright?
Look up the rat bucket trap. It's a bucket with water a trick walkway that drops rats in the bucket. Then they drown. Can kill dozens before you dump the water (which you can leave out for the owls safely since no poison). The rat killer guy on YT says it's the best trap he's ever used. Costs like $20 total
>>2770782Plugging up as many holes as possible to physically keep them out. Dousing stuff with tons of vinegar or peppermint oil will fuck with their sense of smell and ward them off. The main thing is just taking away their food supply, they'll fuck off elsewhere after that, but if there's tons of abandoned houses nearby then who knows what the last owners kept in the pantry.Killing them only really works if you're able to outpace their birth-rate, which is nigh impossible when they have like twelve pups per litter and hundreds of females per community. It's more likely that they'll just avoid the areas you keep killing them in and give you the illusion of progress; they're pretty smart animals (hence why they keep avoiding the traps).
>>2779079cats are the only animal to domesticate themselves, so you're wrong, kiddoi live in the prairies and every farmer i know has barn cats
>>2770783Be nice
>>2772755Seek help
