So a few weeks back one of my feeder rats escaped when I wasn't paying attention. He is confined to the animal room but they are lots of places to hide. When to try to actively hunt him, he is just way to fast. He can be across the room in a flash. So we've resorted to using traps. We've tried sticky traps and kills traps.
The sticky traps he gets caught on but he always managed to drag in half way across the romm, get it hung on something else and pull himself free. I've witnessed this myself. I thought "Yay! We got him!" and then he'd get away. So now he completey avoids them.
The kill traps are baited with peanut butter which I was told was the best to use and he just doesn't go near them.
It's getting stressful now because he is scaring the guinea pigs and stealing their food and has chewed a wire.
I don't want to use poison because I don't want him to die somewhere we can reach and start stinking up the place.
So any advice on how to catch/kill a wayward rat?
Thanks.
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