So i had a rat escape from my rack about a month ago. He was just weaned and im not too sure how he found his way out of his tub. At first i figured he would starve but ohhhh was i wrong. he has been surviving on a diet of rat block from the food hoppers and black oil sun flower seeds i feed my mice. His water he has been getting from the watering system, how you ask? by chewing holes in the watering lines. he doesnt mind if he floods a tub or the ground for that matter. he gets enough water and goes back into hiding. i fix the lines and we go through the process a day or so later. I am FED UP with this rat. i tried a trap i made. a sad excuse of a trap but hey, if i can trap it and feed it off i would be happy. Once i realized the trap was a joke i broke out the big guns, Glue traps!..... yeah right! after only 1 day i saw foot prints right across it. well who can escape from a snap trap right? Houdini cant escape.. but he can eat all of the peanut butter off and avoid a certain death... so i thought again lets think outside the box. what does Houdini want? duh, something to drink! So being the nice guy that i am i mixed him up a cocktail of water and mostly antifreeze. no dice. he didnt take it. Well at this point im just beside myself. so desperate times call for desperate measures. I brought out tar kitty. our giant half indoor/ half outdoor rag doll cat. this guy brings adult rabbits do the door, even birds!what can escape him! Houdini, thats who.... apparently Tar Kitty is on winter hibrenation and did nothing but sit in next to the heater for two days while my watering system was destroyed yet again! So 2 nights ago i was assessing the scene and trying to figure out how much airline i need to replace when i saw him! little black rat sitting on top of a rack under a 10gl tank i was storing. so i sloooooooowly lift the tank and he is trapped! my problems are about to be over. i ease my hand closer and closer and reach for that tail and POOF!!!! he is gone. no running past me, no jumping to the floor. no going inside of a hole in the metal fabric i may have missed, no hoping to another level of tubs.. just gone......... i spent an hour looking for him. he's still there, because another 20' of line is chewed threw... i need help. i AM NOT as smart as a rat, and i cannot keep replacing the line.he wont take poison bait, he wont fall into a trap, and he out smarted my killer feline.

please help i need him gone like yesterday!