ASFs GONE!!

[Johnny84]

We keep live traps baited with rodent block and peanut butter. These things are cool they have a little ramp that the rodent walks up and their weight pushes the ramp down giving them access to the area where the bait is, they have to step off of the ramp to get to the bait and when they do it goes back up blocking off the way out! No harm whatsoever to the rodent and you can return them to their tub or feed them. No harm and no wasted feeder!

Call your local exterminator and ask for them I got them from my best friend who works for a local exterminator.

Well if I catch these lil Houdinies (LOL)...I thought it wouldnt be safe to feed them or place them back in their cage?

[RichsBallPythons]

Its NOT safe to keep them and feed them. Your risking a lot over a rodent to save a meal.


Cull them and start over, rodents become wild in about 24hours and will eat anything. Why catch it, and then feed it to your snakes. Asking for trouble and IMO deserve what comes out of it

[Johnny84]

What if I cant catch them?

[RichsBallPythons]

most rodents that were captive will die in wild eventually as they cant survive well. And just follow the smell

[Johnny84]

Thats what I am trying to avoide....I hate the dead animal smell!

[Johnny84]

I went out to the garage to check my rat racks and saw the lil bastards jump off my rat rack to the top of a rolled up rug and ran inside of it! I moved the rug and they all ran to the other side of my garage where my storge shelves are all at!!

I will catch them..I have faith in myself now (sense I seen them!) I will be getting traps in the morning!!

[Mike Cavanaugh]

Victor snap traps baited with peanut butter. It catches them literally 100% of the time. Search for Victor rat trap on this forum and you will find a thread I wrote about them with pictures of the specific one to get.

[Mike Cavanaugh]

No harm whatsoever to the rodent and you can return them to their tub or feed them. No harm and no wasted feeder!

I don't recomend this practice at all.... Regardless of how you catch the rodent (kill trap, live trap, whatever) you really shouldn't feed it to your snakes. You should simply cull and throw it out.

Even when a rodent is loose for a few hours it will get into bad things. It can eat insects that are already dying from insect poison (assuming you, or a neighbor may use insect control in the house). Or it can eat insects that have other diseases or parrasites. ASF's especially will instantly attack, kill, and eat any insect it comes in contact with.

You also have to consider all the parasites and other wild animals it may come in contact with... What if you had a wild rat or mouse in the garage at some point? A hungry ASF will readilly eat anything it can find... It won't hesitate to eat the fecies of another animal... even of a rat who was in the middle of dying from eating house rat poison.

I am sure you can feed an escapee that you caught and not have any problems result from it. But really, is it worth the risk? I have snakes that are worth $5,000+. I also have baby male normals worth about $20. Both are far too valuable to me to risk feeding a rodent that has been on the loose for even just a few hours.

By the way, I don't just throw them out either... Once they are killed I throw them in the woods behind my house... I let nature take care of them from there so they don't just go to waste.

[Mike Cavanaugh]

What if I cant catch them?

You should be able to get all of them. I once had over 50 loose at once when I had a chew out in one of my grow out tubs. I got every single one of them. (at the time I kept exact count of how many rats were in each tub)

[PitOnTheProwl]

At least they didn't get loose in your house.

at the rate they chew, they can make their own door to come in