Posted: 8/17/2007 2:40:10 PM EDT
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I have a problem pack rat that keeps running across my exterior walls and into my attic, this being in Oro Valley AZ btw. I guess he gets enough traction on the stucco to run like a damn gravity defining lizard. So what is the best way to get this bastard. I was thinking Super Coberilla .22 ammo in my 10/22 to keep the noise down from my neighbors, and this will happen late at night since this is the only time I see the fucker. Any other ideas? |
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I loaded up some birdshot .22 LR but I think at midnight its gonna be to loud of a report and ill see the famously tough Oro Valley PD show up saying WTF. I live in a HOA style hood btw. I dont think rat traps would work as this thing is flying NASA style and B i dont know where he is running to and from as I just seem him run across the front wall of the living room. |
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rat poison works.. they will gobble that gross blue shit right up and die.. i always put out a nice pan of sweet radiator fluid to quench their thirst after tuckin in to the the rat poison.. supposedly its the fluid that gets the warfarin to work bleedin em out... the radiator fluid being a poison too is better than a bowel of water.... |
I've never really been a fan of poison, it might be ok in a barn or shed but personally I don't want him to crawl into a wall and die. Then I have to smell him for the next two weeks to a month |
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Ive had a drain pan of engine coolant, tranny fluid, outside for 2 months now and it already killed two pigeons lol. So he aint drinking that by any means right now. I would have to place traps from the ground to the top of the roof edge to keep him from running into the attic. I want to shoot the bastard to be honest. Man against wild lol. Anyone know the habbits of a Sonoran Desert Pack Rat? Where do they camp out in the day, where is he getting water, and so on. |
From the time a rat wakes up till the time it goes back to sleep it is thinking about one thing, FOOD. Well it might also be looking for some pie from a female rat too but my point is, is that as long as there is food close in the area he is, he will make it a point to stop and go eat. You don't have to be in the direct path that he takes every night, it helps but if he can smell it he is going to try for it. If you want to shoot him get a good air rifle and wait. |
Someone has to always come along and spoil the party..........Darn common sense patrol..  BTW I was thinking the same thing about the sticky traps Mr Bear |
I seriously think most of ya'll have never shot at a big rat. They are smart, fast, aggressive, and have an instinct for survival that has kept them alive and well for thousands of years. Corner one and he will bite the shit out of you. I was bitten on the lip in an underground bunker by one in Vietnam. Buddy had one chew the side off his left hand small finger after he passed out one night. I've had them attack in packs in flooded bunkers during monsoon season. You could sit your ass outside for a week with a shotgun and not get him, he wouldn't come around. I think someone here posted this:
Best bet. |
Well ouch |