Non-lethal, kind, certain ways of removing wild rats from your home www.ratfanclub.org by Debbie Ducommun The best way to keep rats off your property is to remove any access to food or shelter. Rats are attracted to pet food and bird seed as well as garbage. Garbage and food should be stored in metal or heavy duty plastic containers. You need to seal any access to your house, even very small holes as young rats and mice can squeeze through any opening they can fit their head through. Please do not use poison or glue traps which are unethical, unnecessary and inhumane. Using a Live-Trap To remove wild rats from your home without harming them, use a live trap. Live traps are usually available from humane societies and feed stores. The best thing is to put the trap out and fix it so the door won't close at first so the rats will get used to eating out of it. The best bait is peanut butter put directly on the treadle. Once you know rats are eating the bait, you can set the trap. This way it ensures that the rat does not accidently set off the trap before he goes in. If that happens, he would never go in the trap again. Now, the tricky part is where to release him /her. You can't just let rats go in forest or field. They must have source of water, and around water they will be able to find things to eat such as insects, worms, snails, fish, frogs, etc. So the best place to release them is at a permanent source of water such as a creek, river, lake or pond. In most parts of the ...
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