More on rats!

[hugme]

I put out 3 traps last night. When I came down this morning 2 of them had fresh rats in them. the third one still had peanut butter in it, I didn't check to see if it had been nibbled on yet. The 2 new rats were a fraction of the size of the one yesterday... Just makes me wonder how many I'm going to get... I don't know if that's all of them or not. Somehow I'm thinking not.

Comments

[nausved.livejournal.com]

One thing to keep in mind is that rats are very intelligent, much moreso than dogs. They may learn to avoid the traps if they see enough of their brethren caught.

Also, female rats learn faster than male rats, which will make them hard to catch—and they're the ones you want to get, since population growth is dependent upon the number of females.

What I mean to say is that it may be hard to eliminate the rat problem unless you can find a way to trick them.

[hugs.livejournal.com]

I don't seem to be having any trouble... I'm putting the traps in the same places, with the same food... they took the mouse traps.. those traps were just too small, and they didn't learn from the mouse traps not to touch the bigger traps either.

Apparently the rats in my house didn't know they were supposed to be bright...

[nausved.livejournal.com]

Rats aren't born with an innate knowledge of traps.

And if you have one rat, you probably have at least twenty more popping out 10 babies every five weeks.