Live Rat Trap Ideas...Please!

Ok....still dealing with a spastic, FAST, escape-artist rat that is on the loose. Does anyone know of ways to make a live rat trap? Or know of common retail outlets that would carry them?

The timing on this silly escapee is SO bad. I need to find some fast solutions if at all possible. :(

I use a Havaheart trap for my escaped ratties. My local feed store carries them.

Local feed stores....this is south texas...there's BOUND to be feed stores around here somewhere! LOL Thanks...I'll look.

Judy, you should have farm type stores around you, go and get a live rodent trap from them. They are not expensive really, and worth keeping around for the next time... yes, I said the next time, at some point, I think we all end up with escapee meals for our reptiles.

Try Tractor Supply???? Pretty sure they are there..... :D See ya tomorrow!!!!

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Originally Posted by JLC

Ok....still dealing with a spastic, FAST, escape-artist rat that is on the loose. Does anyone know of ways to make a live rat trap? Or know of common retail outlets that would carry them?

The timing on this silly escapee is SO bad. I need to find some fast solutions if at all possible. :(

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Check Home Depot , then you have mouse trap at Lowes

Just place some dog food and or peanut butter your rat should not be able to resist.

Hope this help.

thank you thank you thank you guys... I know I should be able to just find this on my own, but I'm so frazzled right now....


Headed out to buy some traps...

Take a 5 gallon pail, then take and poke a hole in the bottom of a soda can. Then thread an opened coat hanger through itand attach this over the middle of the bucket. Smear peanutbutter over the can and make sure it can spin, use a stick or some books to make a ramp to the coat hanger and there you have it. when he steps out onto the can it will spin and he will fall into the bucket!


hope that helps if for some odd reason you can;t find a havaheart.

~mike

I think even some WalMarts carry live rodent traps (the ones they can get in but not get back out) as well as most any farm supply type store hon. Hope you catch the little bugger. Try a blob of peanut butter and some stinky tuna in there...big smells attract them fast. Good luck! If all else fails we can fly my hubby down there...he's a super dee duper escaped rat catcher LOL

And if it's one of those super sneaky ninja rats who can lick up all the peanut butter without triggering the trap, then a small piece of raw bacon attached with dental floss works great.

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!