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They are very smart and, as @Howard E said above, will learn to avoid traps. You can't allow them to have entrances and exits.We always just throw the whole thing away and put out a new one.
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They are very smart and, as @Howard E said above, will learn to avoid traps. You can't allow them to have entrances and exits.We always just throw the whole thing away and put out a new one.
"Wolf rats" are regular rats. It's just some new made up name to make them seem bigger and scarier. Or maybe, as another poster said, someone misheard "wharf rat", anyway, those are all the same rat.We remember that Taco Bell!! Ewww
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Watching the thread... we don't have "wolf" rats but trying to deal with regular rats.
I googled it. It's just a regular Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus aka brown rat. They don't get as big as cats. I know, I used to breed them. They're also found all over the NYC subway system. "Wolf rat" must be some colloquial term I've never heard before.
A cheaper option for shooting them would be a pellet gun. .117 caliber or higher. The crosman 1077 is an adorable and fast shooting option. Pellets cost much less and co2 is cheap.Good idea on looking for holes and trying to seal them up but I have seen them chew through tin cans and I have also seen them put cats on the run. Best idea is move the babies and put out the poison at any holes to the out side. Good luck, We have the same problem but not getting in so I'm shooting them every day till we have no more.
Rats and mice don’t actually mind the dead mouse or rat smell or even if it is a multi kill trap and the bodies are visible the mice/rats don’t mind. It actually draws them in cause they are curious. Don’t keep wasting money on buying new traps. Reuse them!Not sure what that means......"along the top"......but whatever the case, I strongly urge you to find a way to block that off. Tack hardware cloth, metal flashing....something or anything over whatever it is that allows any form of entry. Do this even if butt ugly and temporary until you can come back to fix it right. Again, I don't know the condition you are describing is, but your response to this is what I refer to when I mention "half measures". You have to assume that if there is a potential entry point that allows them to come and go, they will use it. So..........problem continues. We know you don't want that, so again, please do try to find a way to get that blocked off. Somehow, someway. NO EXCUSES!!!!
On the traps, I showed the pest guy my plans for the Big Hammer rat trap. He was only mildly interested........more like amused. His prediction was that while certainly big enough and powerful enough to kill any rat going, it would not work for more than one or two rats. Said with wooden traps of this type, when the trap kills a rat or mouse it is his belief that the dead animal leaves a scent behind.....blood, or whatever, but something the others can detect and thus avoid. So one trap might kill one or two, then stops working. But replace it with a new trap........and it might also catch one or two more. Something to try?