Rats

[burtie]

We live in an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere land, we have a small rat problem.
I've put traps down but the little ***** seem to just nick the bait and the trap fails to murder them.

I can't or don't really want to do poison because of my dogs. Any suggestions, the rats aren't coming in the house just in the out buildings. Managed to murder 8 so far with chocolate spread in the traps, but it's like they have become self aware. There big ******** too.

 

[burtie]

Can someone please move this to home and garden thanks.

 

[burtie]

I had good success with rat traps by Roshield ( https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B071DJVBT4 ) inside their boxes ( https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Roshield-Tamper-Proof-Rat-Poison/dp/B00XL3CENO ) using peanut butter as bait. Using the traps inside the boxes make sure that the rats approach the trap from a direction which is likely to trigger them. You do need patience when dealing with rats as they will often not take bait from traps until they have been in place for quite a while. You just need to keep checking/re-baiting regularly and you'll get them eventually...

Great thanks ordered will see how we get on.