Live Rat Trap Ideas...Please!

An UPDATE:


I went out and bought two Haveaheart traps from Lowes. Then I pretty much handed them to my husband and jetted out the door to Arlington for the weekend. LOL I told him "use peanut butter" but not much else.

So...he smears peanut butter on some crackers and baits each trap with that. It WAS a super sneaky ninja rat and managed to pull both crackers out of both traps without leaving so much as a crumb behind and without setting them off.

By the time I got home at the end of the weekend, the little booger was still on the loose.

So I smeared peanut butter right on the trip plates (which is what I expected him to do in the first place :giggle: ) and set them up again. Next morning, I find a poor little dehydrated rat that looked a fair bit scrawnier than it did when I first got it.

Poor little thing now lives in a very luxurious little Rat Hotel with all the food and water and nest-building material it could wish for. And Kisasa has gone into shed this week....so it will even get yet another reprieve and not be fed off until NEXT week. If it weren't so scaredy/spastic...the risk of getting attached would be high.

Thanks again for talking me through my panic. I hate when things go awry while I'm up against a rock-solid deadline. Makes my brain shut down or something. :rolleyes:

So glad you caught him and now he can live the life of luxury for a week! Bless his little heart!