This is like the 3rd or 4th one of these I have eliminated from my garage, this time I tried a new trap, the humane catch sticky trap. I put them out a few days ago and was getting discouraged until this morning. This is what I found when I came out to the garage. Now, should I take him out to a field and put vegetable oil on it for a safe release? Or should I shoot the little bastard between the eyes with my pellet rifle? The other option is to just toss him in the trash can and let him get picked up by the trash men this morning in which case he will either be crushed or starve to death, I think the BB between the eyes is the quickest. What do you think?


Keeping in mind all the damage these things did to my stuff...........

scott, do you keep any human, pet, bird food in the garage? something is attracting them. any idea how they're getting in? pellet then garbage. it's just a rat. flea infested desease carrying pests. they can live quite sometime without food.

k

I agree with killing it! last one I caught MANY moons ago was a big sucker and mean too! beat it to death with a shovel.

Josh

if you end up letting it go, just make sure you do it far, far from your house...it will just come back.
of course you could always...

.22 to the head. It may be vermin, but it shouldn't suffer.

Humane is the old style spring loaded head whackers.

Lights out.

It looks like you scared the shit out of it

Kill the fucher.

Or mail it to a PETA representative.

next time a dab of peanut butter in the middle of the trap

Float test it in a bucket of water

Run it over with your 914.

I may be the only one here who thinks the field and vegetable oil are the right thing to do....















....Make a picnic out of it. Bring a pan, nice bottle of red or white (not sure what goes best), some vegetable oil, shallots, salt n pepper, you may want to freeze that one until you catch a few more

Fresh rat-atouille...

I prefer the natural method. He's a good mouse/rat/bird/lizard/spider/squirrel catcher ..

Funny thing. Neighbors moved out and left him behind, a few weeks later he showed up at me front door all stick and bones. After I fatted him up he rewarded me with plenty of dead critters at my front door. I think he's mostly Maine Coon at 15 pounds.

I have no rats or mice or anything else that crawls in the night inside the house, I have my little guards on duty all the time. They begged me to bring it in for them to play with but because of the fleas and other things these carry, I opted not to.


I shot it in the head with a Powermaster 760 that I got from the great Dr.Evil before he parted from the west coast. Thanks again Mike!

The two in the pic below are the newest additions to our den. Axle and Zeus, They will grow up to be fine hunters like my favorite cat Suavecito, Malo was startled by the rat this morning so I question his abilities, Suavecito tried to come through the window to attack the rat.

What's the point of using a humane trap if you're just going to kill 'em?

Set him free

It was all that was available at the store when I went. I actually prefer the snap traps.

Killing it was the best thing to do.

Groundhogs, rats and rabbits need to die (but I eat the rabbits).

Zach

This post reminded me of a a past time in Baltimore.

Rat fishing.

B-more has a HUGE rat problem. For a few years, casting a hook and line baited with cheese or peanut butter into an ally was really popular. Caught rats were drowned in buckets of water. Neighborhoods actually planned tounaments with prizes for most rats caught, largest rat, etc.

PETA eventually waddled in and made a BIG stink about it, and it faded from popularity.

its for reasons like this that I think PETA can suck it.

Zach

Check this one out. Found him after pulling my engine for the first time a few months ago...

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Looks like he fell through the hell hole.

Rats are like scallops - the smaller the tastier!
No, extra virgin olive oil. Shallots good. A few field dressed summer tomatoes, little basil, touch of fresh garlic. Serve over angel hair pasta al dente. Oh, you really should dress the rat before cooking - reduces hairballs & tastes a lot better.

Mmmm, good eatin'

First blush would say "not just any red". Petite sirah ( about mid '80's) would really top this off (Napa Valley, of course - Sonoma, if you must).

Yeah, like quail, you need more than one. Much better than monkey! LOTSA flavor (don't ask what the flavor is!).

PETA sanctioned - well, maybe not.

LMAO!!

i was hoping this was a ' I found a chalon - how do i kill it'? thread

This had made a home in a 912 I was selling.

Yes that is the RAT phone, I think he realized he was in trouble when he stepped inside the metal chamber and the smell of peanut butter tipped him off to TROUBLE.
CCLINRATCAMP

You're welcome to catch as many rabbits as you want at my place. My dog won't chase anything without a tail (i.e., squirrels and cats only). Besides, she's pushing 13 and the chase would tire her out.

BTW, PETA can suck it for many more reasons... my top reason is the fact that they kill 90 percent of the animals that they accept from people who trust them to find a home.

PETA Kills Animals

Stewed Rat
Skin and eviscerate the rat and split it lengthwise. Fry until brown in a mixture of butter and peanut oil. Cover with water, add tomatoes or tomato purée, hot red peppers, and salt. Simmer the rat until tender and serve with rice.

[url=http://www.bertc.com/cooking_rats.htm]Calvin W. Schwabe in his book Unmentionable Cuisine (Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 1979, available from Amazon Books), says that North Americans should be using many forms of protein which are routinely consumed in other parts of the world. The following exerpts are from a section of the book giving recipes for cooking rats and mice.
"Brown rats and roof rats were eaten openly on a large scale in Paris when the city was under siege during the Franco-Prussian War. Observers likened their taste to both partridges and pork. And, according to the Larousse Gastronomique, rats are still eaten in some parts of France. In fact, this recipe appears in that famous tome.

Grilled Rats Bordeaux Style (Entrecote à la bordelaise)
Alcoholic rats inhabiting wine cellars are skinned and eviscerated, brushed with a thick sauce of olive oil and crushed shallots, and grilled over a fire of broken wine barrels.[/url]

With this recipe, I think a Pinot Grigio or Chardonney would be better.

Note the grin - that little rat knows he/she'll be appreciated.

Yum!

Good thing I already ate dinner before reading this, I lost my appetite after seeing this.

You guys are SICK!!!!

Au contraire mon frere,


To some people this IS what's for dinner