[GreenKeys] OT? Cats and Telexes

[Richard Knoppow]

    I know the dental floss trick but have not used it. The 
bricks sound like a good idea. Perhaps the thing to do is to use 
a couple of layers and lay another brick over the top to make a 
sort of tunnel.
     The trick I mentioned is to get the rats used to feeding off 
the trap. Bait it but don't set it. After a couple of times they 
will get used to eating off the trap and when you set it they get 
caught.  I tried a number of things before the exterminator came. 
Rats are very smart, too bad they are so destructive. I have seen 
a rat run right over a snap trap without setting it off.

On 11/14/2020 6:27 AM, tony.podrasky wrote:
> And now, a response from someone who lived on a ranch...
>
> I used peanut butter too but found that sometimes the
> rats could trip the trap without getting caught.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> Get three red bricks: the kind used for houses, etc.
>
> Take the three bricks and arrange them like this:  I_I
> (a box with an open end).
>
> Put the trap in there so that the trigger is by the opening.
>
> The rat can only get at the peanut butter from one side - the 
> open one.
>
> If he climbs over the bricks, add a second level.
>
> I also found that rats like Swiss cheese but could sometimes 
> manage
> to pull the cheese off the trap without tripping it. Wrapping
> dental floss around the trigger and cheese took care of that 
> problem.
>

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Richard Knoppow
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