Rats - glueboards. Help!

[fliptheswitch]

I'm at the end of my tether with "Rat-gate".
I've still had to luck with the traps, but Ratty is still coming in during the night.
Why is he not going for the traps I've laid out? There is no other food available for him, so I am so confused as to why he's not going for the bait (Peanut butter and chocolate). Four bloody traps! FOUR!!

Tonight I am using "the last resort".... glue boards.
I ordered two, which arrived today, but they are quite small. Wish I'd got twenty, now.
Where should I place them and, most importantly, do they work?

My plan is, to hang a bag full of a mixture of peanut butter, poison, glass and chocolate, on the kitchen drawer handle. This is where he grabbed a bag from before, so I know he can get to it.
Underneath, I was going to put one of the glue boards.
I figured if the mixture doesn't get him, the board will.

Will that work?

[daffy654]

Glass? that is unnecessary and very cruel.

[fliptheswitch]

I know it's a bit extreme, but I am honestly at my wits end with this damn thing!

[fliptheswitch]

I've had pest control in. We laid down traps, but he's not taken the bait.

[Psybbo]

flip, you have my sympathy, I could not bear to be in the house if a rat was there

[fliptheswitch]

Thankyou Sibton.
I would just like to point out that I really don't want to do this. It is the last resort.
However, I have since found a hole chewed through my kitchen cupboard!
It's very easy for other people to say it's cruel, but I can assure you, you would feel the same if it were in your house.
It really is quite distressing.

[Maydup]

You ahve my sympathy too, but the glass will leave the rat dying in agony behind your cupbaord, in your loft or wherever else he's coming in. You need him in a trap, put more of those don and call emergency private pest control company.

[B00]

Oh God, still around is it? Urgh!

Like you, I went from "i'll use a humane trap" to "know anyone with a 12 bore shotgun?"

It's easy for some people to tell you how cruel it is, unless they've been there with these pests destroying your kitchen, they've no idea how they'd react when faced with it.

Do what you have to do Flip and good luck!

[madmaggot]

Your local authority should come out FOC if it is in fact rats. (If you've got one then you've got an infestation). If they've been out once and you still have a problem then call them again.

[fliptheswitch]

I've tried the traps, it's not working.

B00, I can't believe how distressing it is! When I saw the chewed hole in the cupboard, I could have cried.

I've had the council out, it cost £35. He put the traps down, and said that's all he could do.
He didn't think poison was a good idea, as it's coming from under the floorboards, and up through a gap where the water pipes go into the ground. I will obviously fill the hole, but I can't do it until ratty is dead, as he'll be stuck under the floorboards and will rot! Minging!

[josaphine32]

No would definately not feel the same as you if it was in my house...... you are beeing very cruel agree with red and daffy. humane traps only

[B00]

Are you sure he was right about not putting poison down for the reason he stated Flip?

I only mention it as mine put poison down, without us knowing where mine had come from either, what's the difference? I'd ring them back and query this if I were you. And mine cost £25 as opposed to your £35 too! Gerrem rang back girl!

[firewatch]

do you know anyone with a jack russell? They are better ratters then cats my dad had a problem with rats just before he sold his house and it was the alst straw for him so he sold it to developers for way under the average house price, and we found a mummified one under the kitchen sink ewwwwwwwwww

[B00]

Madmaggot, with all due respect, the local authority do not come out FOC and it's a load of bull to claim "if you've got one, you've got an infestation"

[B00]

Ahhh yes, the faithful jack russell....mine happily sniffed and wagged her tail where mine made his home, but did bugger all else!

[arwyn]

Fliptheswitch you need to be sure where they are getting in.. Put talc or flour down and see where the foot prints are the next morning.

[237SJ]

I thought poison was pretty much the only way with rats. My dad was an agricultural merchant and sold Warfarin to the farmers. Most of the time when you have a rat, you don`t know where it came in (they can squeeze through very little holes) so where it goes to die is an unknown quantity anyway. I have heard that rats are becoming immune to Warfarin but there are other poisons out there. They breed so prolifically that I`m not sure how effective glue traps are. I`d get another pest controller if I was you.

[RATTER15]

Please dont ever use glue boards, I have seen rats that have chewed their own legs and tails off to escape, barbaric things.

Just get pest control in and the problem will be gone very quickly!!

[RATTER15]

Pest controller used traps!!!?

What was his name, Jack Black!! in 13 years I never found a situation where poison did not work, and to say there was nothing more he could do!!

Call another company, you been ripped off!!

[RATTER15]

Ive also never heard of the Council using traps in modern days!!

It all sounds very suspicious to me!!