I purchased a rat trap made of sticky glue at the hardware store, and the rat made a "bridge" of tiny pieces of paper, in order to walk over this glue....LOL. She is smarter than me.
Use latex gloves at all times when handling the trap--even when you first take it out of its packaging. Then at least they won't be smelling YOU directly, they'll be smelling the latex. They are also smelling the plastic and metal parts of the trap, no matter what you do. All of these scents probably make the rats leery. What I have found as one of the best ingredients to use in catching the rats using snap traps is PATIENCE. Just leave the baited trap out undisturbed for days, even weeks, if necessary (as long as the proper amount of bait remains in the trap--if not, you'll have to re-bait the trap.) In my world, the rat traps haven't caught any rats the first night that I put 'em out. (I usually put out two or three of the Tom Cat snap traps that you can set with your foot underneath the house. I have a crawl space door that I can open and set a few traps in.) I think the earliest success I've had was on the 4th night. That's about 100 hours after I put the traps out and then just left them alone after that, folks. Success can take a while with the traps. The rats need to get used to seeing them and smelling your offerings until they get comfortable enough to insert themselves into the danger zone and set the traps off. It's a waiting game........ I've actually left the traps alone and caught some rats between 2-3 weeks later--so in my experience, they MIGHT successfully yield some trapped rats for you even weeks later if you just leave them alone (keeping an eye on bait levels, of course). Handle the traps as little as possible--always with the latex gloves--and JUST WAIT. Yes, it is possible that you CAN handle them with your bare hands and still trap some rats, but you may have a better success rate if you avoid marking the traps with your scent. This makes the rats very leery, as you might imagine after watching this video. Also, seeing the rats just grab the food right out of the bait cup and make off with it in this video was painful to watch, as it's UTTERLY LAME to use bait that they can just grab right out of the bait cup and make off with without setting off the trap. It's 110% true that you absoutely MUST use something that the rats are not only highy attracted to, but which will also be virtually impossible for them to clean out of the bait cup without setting the trap off. Peanut butter has worked well for me so far. Make sure that you smoosh the peanut butter down into that bait cup all the way, removing any air pockets so that you get maximum adhesion of the peanut butter to the inside of the cup, and fill it till it mounds up just slightly in the middle past the top of the bait cup. Wipe off ANY AND ALL excess peanut butter that gets smeared around during the process of baiting the cup. You want the presentation to be such that the rat wants to get his nose right down in there and start licking where he is most likely to spring the trap--at which point, hopefully he'll try to move in for more bait, and set the trap off by sticking his paw up on that plastic plate that has the hole to the bait cup in it, which gets cocked into position when you set the trap. It is THAT plate around the bait cup that springs the trap when the rat steps on it, and gives it enough downward pressure to spring it. Again, it's the downward force on that particular plate that springs the trap. Without that force, the trap will remain unsprung--and some rats almost seem to know it, and seem to want to eat what's in the cup without stepping on the plate, or putting enough downward force on it to spring it. Their level of savvy and cleverness in that regard seems eerie at times. Also, I have found that I need to anchor my traps to something that's too heavy for a rat that's only caught by its paw or tail, etc., or one of their predators (such as a possum or cat) to make off with--which sometimes can mean the disappearance of not only the rat, but my $8 Tom Cat snap trap to boot. After having a couple of them completely vanish off the face of the Earth, you start realizing that anchoring them so that they'll still be there when you go to check on them is a pretty wise idea. The Tom Cat black plastic snap traps (which you can set with your foot--no broken fingers!!) have holes in them that you can use to put some screws in to anchor the traps to wood. The heavier the wood or other object is that you anchor the traps to, the better. I anchor two or three traps to a 2" by 6", and then I attach THAT to something that's impossible for the rat to run off with, and then I put an upside-down milk crate over the whole thing with a properly-sized hole cut in it just big enough for a rat to climb into so that only creatures the size of a rat (but not an adult possum or cat) can gain access to the trap(s). Enough for now. Happy trapping!!😅
@@nunya3461 Okay, well if you don't want to invest a few minutes of your time to read what I wrote, that's your business. I don't think that EVERYONE feels the same way, so I wrote it for the benefit of those who see things differently than you do.(Why even say what you said? Do you ALWAYS go around critiquing the length of others' posts? Most folks have better things to do.)
I have a mouse who has outsmarted 3 of my snap traps and I have the owltra electric trap. The mouse seems to know that it's a trap. Maybe I will wash the trap this time and use gloves like you suggested. I found the information helpful. I even did what this person did and put peanuts and the mouse ate all the peanuts well this time I put peanut butter but the mouse has not touched any of the spring traps. Where as before the Owltra trap I have that's electric has caught 3 mice so far. So. After this I don't know what I am doing wrong.
I read of someone wrapping gauze around peanut butter so they have to fight for it (and, in the fighting, trigger the trap). Also, please the bait facing the wall, not facing outward.
My buddy has these rats in his garage. They’re smarter than most inner city youth. He was using this same trap and dog kibble to try and catch them. The rats were so big that they could reach into the trap and pull the kibbles out by hand. He has since then resorted to a peephole and a 10/22 Ruger
if they are in his garage they are probably brown rats not roof rats ,,roof rats are more shy than brown rats and like high places like rafters and attics ,,roof rats also called black rats ,rattus rattus ,,,as opposed to the more aggressive ,and larger brown rat ,commonly called norway rat ,,rattus norvegicus ,,these will infest barns and buildings and dig up foundations and floors anywhere they have a food source ,, brown rats usually displace the black rats because they are more aggressive , larger and breed faster
My buddy has them in his attic at home, the crawl up single story Brick wall or up a Aluminum Gutter downspout and every morning around 7-8am he heres them scratching the drywall ceiling under the insulation, we think thats when there bedding down to sleep.
I have never had rats on my pig farm until last summer. I have tried feeding them many different foods to try to find something they are attracted by so that I can use a trap. Only thing the damn rats want is pig feed. Tried chocolate, peanut butter, peanuts, sunflower seeds, potato chips, cheese, crackers, corn chips, corn nuts, cashews, cheese crackers, ect. Only thing that I have found is to mix pig feed and a commercial meal bait poison. They eat only the pig feed out of the mix. And to go after dark and shot with pellet gun. Any suggestions???????
Lol. You just gave the rat a free meal. Very smart. I bought some mouse traps I have a mouse and he knows it's a trap. So. I think what I am going to do is wash the trap as the below comment suggested and use gloves next time when handling the trap. They're very smart creatures. Despite the fact that they're pests.
@@Stone_20XX I got the owltra trap for mice I have here in Baltimore the mouse doesn't seem to be taking the bait. I wonder what I am doing wrong? I also have snap traps I put peanut butter on the trap and small amounts and the mouse doesn't even touch it.
I’m a rodent specialist, 1) if washing the trap. Some use any soaps or chemicals. 2) bare with me, a “used” trap(one that’s caught one already) has a higher chance of success. 3) I highly recommend using snap traps(victor, yellow plated) 4) yes always always wear gloves! 5) rats are neophobic they’re very afraid and cautious of new things5) please done throw poisons down 6) best way is the have a tech close all possible entry points to prevent further entry and to starve them to help with the bait
Don't use solid food. That food can be picked up and carried away. Need to use Soft malleable foods... ex. Peanut butter 1st choice. Gets mice every time... so far. : ) Hopefully same for rats.
5 minutes of my life wasted ! Thought trap was going to crush Rat brains to smitheroons ,but did not happen i Tiltle should read : Trap shuts it's trap !
They're not stupid , I can tell you that . He knows somethings up.
Could be a she-rat they are more intuitive.
I purchased a rat trap made of sticky glue at the hardware store, and the rat made a "bridge" of tiny pieces of paper, in order to walk over this glue....LOL. She is smarter than me.
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The reason why a rodenticide is the last resort of eliminating rats.
@@CarterM2008 ....yes, they are too smart.
Ha legend
When rat is smarter that the homeowner
Some of them are
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I Currently Have A Very Smart Mouse In My House Right Now 🤨
@@tockwashington964Just remember, when it comes to rodents, when you see one, there are others that you don’t see behind the walls.
I have traps similar to this. You must use a sticky pasty substance like peanut butter. You're just feeding them the way you're doing it here.
Use latex gloves at all times when handling the trap--even when you first take it out of its packaging. Then at least they won't be smelling YOU directly, they'll be smelling the latex. They are also smelling the plastic and metal parts of the trap, no matter what you do. All of these scents probably make the rats leery.
What I have found as one of the best ingredients to use in catching the rats using snap traps is PATIENCE. Just leave the baited trap out undisturbed for days, even weeks, if necessary (as long as the proper amount of bait remains in the trap--if not, you'll have to re-bait the trap.)
In my world, the rat traps haven't caught any rats the first night that I put 'em out. (I usually put out two or three of the Tom Cat snap traps that you can set with your foot underneath the house. I have a crawl space door that I can open and set a few traps in.) I think the earliest success I've had was on the 4th night. That's about 100 hours after I put the traps out and then just left them alone after that, folks. Success can take a while with the traps. The rats need to get used to seeing them and smelling your offerings until they get comfortable enough to insert themselves into the danger zone and set the traps off. It's a waiting game........ I've actually left the traps alone and caught some rats between 2-3 weeks later--so in my experience, they MIGHT successfully yield some trapped rats for you even weeks later if you just leave them alone (keeping an eye on bait levels, of course).
Handle the traps as little as possible--always with the latex gloves--and JUST WAIT. Yes, it is possible that you CAN handle them with your bare hands and still trap some rats, but you may have a better success rate if you avoid marking the traps with your scent. This makes the rats very leery, as you might imagine after watching this video.
Also, seeing the rats just grab the food right out of the bait cup and make off with it in this video was painful to watch, as it's UTTERLY LAME to use bait that they can just grab right out of the bait cup and make off with without setting off the trap. It's 110% true that you absoutely MUST use something that the rats are not only highy attracted to, but which will also be virtually impossible for them to clean out of the bait cup without setting the trap off. Peanut butter has worked well for me so far. Make sure that you smoosh the peanut butter down into that bait cup all the way, removing any air pockets so that you get maximum adhesion of the peanut butter to the inside of the cup, and fill it till it mounds up just slightly in the middle past the top of the bait cup. Wipe off ANY AND ALL excess peanut butter that gets smeared around during the process of baiting the cup.
You want the presentation to be such that the rat wants to get his nose right down in there and start licking where he is most likely to spring the trap--at which point, hopefully he'll try to move in for more bait, and set the trap off by sticking his paw up on that plastic plate that has the hole to the bait cup in it, which gets cocked into position when you set the trap. It is THAT plate around the bait cup that springs the trap when the rat steps on it, and gives it enough downward pressure to spring it. Again, it's the downward force on that particular plate that springs the trap. Without that force, the trap will remain unsprung--and some rats almost seem to know it, and seem to want to eat what's in the cup without stepping on the plate, or putting enough downward force on it to spring it. Their level of savvy and cleverness in that regard seems eerie at times.
Also, I have found that I need to anchor my traps to something that's too heavy for a rat that's only caught by its paw or tail, etc., or one of their predators (such as a possum or cat) to make off with--which sometimes can mean the disappearance of not only the rat, but my $8 Tom Cat snap trap to boot. After having a couple of them completely vanish off the face of the Earth, you start realizing that anchoring them so that they'll still be there when you go to check on them is a pretty wise idea. The Tom Cat black plastic snap traps (which you can set with your foot--no broken fingers!!) have holes in them that you can use to put some screws in to anchor the traps to wood. The heavier the wood or other object is that you anchor the traps to, the better. I anchor two or three traps to a 2" by 6", and then I attach THAT to something that's impossible for the rat to run off with, and then I put an upside-down milk crate over the whole thing with a properly-sized hole cut in it just big enough for a rat to climb into so that only creatures the size of a rat (but not an adult possum or cat) can gain access to the trap(s).
Enough for now.
Happy trapping!!😅
That’s far too much to read!
@@nunya3461 Okay, well if you don't want to invest a few minutes of your time to read what I wrote, that's your business.
I don't think that EVERYONE feels the same way, so I wrote it for the benefit of those who see things differently than you do.(Why even say what you said? Do you ALWAYS go around critiquing the length of others' posts? Most folks have better things to do.)
I have a mouse who has outsmarted 3 of my snap traps and I have the owltra electric trap. The mouse seems to know that it's a trap. Maybe I will wash the trap this time and use gloves like you suggested. I found the information helpful.
I even did what this person did and put peanuts and the mouse ate all the peanuts well this time I put peanut butter but the mouse has not touched any of the spring traps.
Where as before the Owltra trap I have that's electric has caught 3 mice so far. So. After this I don't know what I am doing wrong.
@@anonamust8697 You should use shift and enter to make paragraphs in the future. Its easier to read.
@@tallesttree4863
Good suggestion, thanks.
I've heard that Rats are smart and was hoping to see it meet its maker, but was disappointed. The rat out smarted man.
I read of someone wrapping gauze around peanut butter so they have to fight for it (and, in the fighting, trigger the trap). Also, please the bait facing the wall, not facing outward.
When the rat is Smart
Rat be like:This trap is killing me
I thought it would be a fatality.
Janet - did you eventually capture the rat overcoming the shyness exhibited?
yes was finally able to publish that video today - trouble with the software
My buddy has these rats in his garage. They’re smarter than most inner city youth.
He was using this same trap and dog kibble to try and catch them.
The rats were so big that they could reach into the trap and pull the kibbles out by hand. He has since then resorted to a peephole and a 10/22 Ruger
Rats haven't got hands. 👐. 🤣. Banter
if they are in his garage they are probably brown rats not roof rats ,,roof rats are more shy than brown rats and like high places like rafters and attics ,,roof rats also called black rats ,rattus rattus ,,,as opposed to the more aggressive ,and larger brown rat ,commonly called norway rat ,,rattus norvegicus ,,these will infest barns and buildings and dig up foundations and floors anywhere they have a food source ,, brown rats usually displace the black rats because they are more aggressive , larger and breed faster
For real? Fire arm in the house?
@@pricelessppp yep ,i've got a gun in my house too , and i have shot rats with it ,, i prefer using an air rifle though ,i use a PCP air rifle indoors
@@wildcoyote34 Nice! I don’t want to shoot any sorta gun for a safety hazard so got rodent traps and glue traps.
My buddy has them in his attic at home, the crawl up single story Brick wall or up a Aluminum Gutter downspout and every morning around 7-8am he heres them scratching the drywall ceiling under the insulation, we think thats when there bedding down to sleep.
I have never had rats on my pig farm until last summer. I have tried feeding them many different foods to try to find something they are attracted by so that I can use a trap. Only thing the damn rats want is pig feed. Tried chocolate, peanut butter, peanuts, sunflower seeds, potato chips, cheese, crackers, corn chips, corn nuts, cashews, cheese crackers, ect. Only thing that I have found is to mix pig feed and a commercial meal bait poison. They eat only the pig feed out of the mix. And to go after dark and shot with pellet gun. Any suggestions???????
I think rats are too big for these traps to be effective
*The mouse is very clever what I expected*
NO. Mice are Dumb...RATS are Clever.
So you just showed a video of giving this rat free food!
Yes but not in these traps. I have more videos I need to make and share.
Glue the solid food with peanut butter, put pb first and dip n press the cheddar cheese or crackers into the pb
They can smell your sent on the trap... rats cant see for shit but there sense of smell is like 10 times a bloodhounds.
They eat and live around humans, the scent doesn't bother them, on the contrary, probably tells then "food near"
Nice rat feeder
Lol. You just gave the rat a free meal. Very smart. I bought some mouse traps I have a mouse and he knows it's a trap. So. I think what I am going to do is wash the trap as the below comment suggested and use gloves next time when handling the trap. They're very smart creatures. Despite the fact that they're pests.
Little bastards aint that smart. I caught all of them in the same spot same bait.
@@Stone_20XX I got the owltra trap for mice I have here in Baltimore the mouse doesn't seem to be taking the bait. I wonder what I am doing wrong? I also have snap traps I put peanut butter on the trap and small amounts and the mouse doesn't even touch it.
I’m a rodent specialist, 1) if washing the trap. Some use any soaps or chemicals. 2) bare with me, a “used” trap(one that’s caught one already) has a higher chance of success. 3) I highly recommend using snap traps(victor, yellow plated) 4) yes always always wear gloves! 5) rats are neophobic they’re very afraid and cautious of new things5) please done throw poisons down 6) best way is the have a tech close all possible entry points to prevent further entry and to starve them to help with the bait
@@sabinorangel6868 thanks. I’ll do that and get some gloves this weekend.
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Don't use solid food. That food can be picked up and carried away. Need to use Soft malleable foods... ex. Peanut butter 1st choice. Gets mice every time... so far. : ) Hopefully same for rats.
I saw a video, glue the food on the tray
How do they know, they dont have a rat school to tell other rats
This Rat is really Cool 🤘😃😄😅👍
Is that a trap or a feeder?
Use a glue trap in front of that trap lets see if that pest rat can escape XD
That's not a trap, it's a larder!
*RAT MODE*
*ACTIVATED*
I can't sleep
Waste of time the rat never gets caught
They seem to be smarter than us at times😂
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Caught one of these bastards in the basement with a snaptrap. It only took one failed attenpt
The Rat 🐀 didn't go into the trap.
Useless trap
5 minutes of my life wasted ! Thought trap was going to crush Rat brains to smitheroons ,but did not happen i Tiltle should read : Trap shuts it's trap !
Wish I read this before I watched lmao
Better to use something that requires more effort to take like peanut butter.
Well, that was a complete waste of time, you should be ashamed
The rat not go field
Oh no his slap
That bait ain't work
What a waste of time.
Bye, cartoon channel is waiting for you!
I have the same trap
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🤬🤬🤬 those are the exact same traps I just bought off Amazon!
Use sticky bait like peanut butter. This owner used dry bait and large enough to stick out of the trap trey. They just feed the rat . lmao
沒捉到～
Video perca de tempo pensei que o rato 🐀 ia morrer
🫤🙄😒
Ahahhaahhahaha get snap his crying more crying
There smart
Yeah them Trex traps suck if these YT videos are true
Watched the entire video and watched a smart rat steal food from the traps...boring.....zzzzzz
Yt typically won't allow the vid showing their killing because people might learn how to rid their home of disease and destruction causing pests.
So boring
Boring
worthless