HELP. Escaped rats!

Ferrets though love and crave attn. I have 3 of them and they aren't that hard to catch or find. On the other hand the loose rats I'd humanely kill and toss them. Whenever I Have a loose rodent that's what end up happening.


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Originally Posted by MiamiRoyalPythons

Yea, but you might have just as much trouble catching the ferret as you would the rodents! lol

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I have 3 ferrets and they are trained to come to a squeaky toy. So no trouble catching them for me :)

Also, they love to hunt and nom on my escaped rats. (granted my rats are in my house. So they're not exposed to what ever is in the garage)

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Yea, the house would be different, but the garage I would cull the escapees. I've had the pleasure of having ferrets as well and something I almost learned the hard way is that no matter how much they love you, if they slip through a hole and get into the siding of the house, or end up outside, it is very very hard to find them and find them unharmed at that. Luckily I have never had to experience that! But just sayin.. lets keep the fuzzies out of the garage lol

My cat helps me round up any escapees. She thinks it's a brilliant game to help me chase them around, and will head them off so that I can grab them.

I had a rat loose that I could not catch. She ended up chewing every hose in our washer and we had to buy a new washer. I'm glad that's all she chewed, but still, that was a $300 machine I had to replace, not a $5 rat... I put out every kind of rat trap there is aside from sticky traps. She would eat the food out of the traps, but never got caught. She even ate food out of the tomcat snap trap-the black plastic one. That was the worst month ever! The only reason I "caught" her, is because I stopped free feeding one of our cats and he killed her. That cat still isn't being free fed in case this ever happens again. He thinks he is special and doesn't have to eat the same food the rest of the cats are eating out of the timed feeder :rolleyes: