I thought I saw/heard something in the garage the other day, my wife has too on a couple other occasions... We looked around and found rat droppings, chewed up stuff (little bugger ate my grass seed!!) etc.  So I set a trap at 7:00PM, went and checked it at 10:30 and the greedy little guy already met his fate.  His teeth were still clamped down on the cheese.  By the way in case you haven't seen one, that "Rat Trap" is the size of 4 regular mouse traps.




P.S. I am assuming this is some kind of rat, if someone else knows exactly what it is, let me know.

P.P.S. You can't tell from the pic, but the poor little guy crapped himself.  He had poop hanging out of his rat bottom.  Thought you guys would like to know that .

Here, have some cheese Rrrrat!

Burn the motherfucker!

I despise rats - goddamn disease spreading dirty loathsome parasites!

That's the endangered Flat-headed rat!  They are often prey to the Spotted Owl.

You had better remove that photo before the feds or PETA sees it!

Oh ya, *if* this is the same guy, that little jerk ate the tubes leading from the wiper/washer reservoir on my wife's Honda Accord many months ago...

Hahah I was thinking in the back of my mind, someone is going to post saying this is some dumb endangered species or something... it would be just my luck!! haha

Stupid ass rat! It says "RAT TRAP" right on the thing! [BD]

Heh that would be a funny experiment, put some funny contraption with the words "PERSON TRAP" outside a WalMart, with a $100 bill sitting on it.  See how many people go for it [:)]

cut off his head and stick it on a pike, a toothpick may be better in this situation, then set it up inside of your garage. that should scare off the rest of them

What was that quote again? The early bird gets the worm, but the second [s]mouse[/s] rat gets the cheese. [;)]

***edited to say: D'oh!  I really should refresh the page before I post.[:\]

Mark one up for the good guys. Durtie lil bastads.

thats a big fugging rat.

we killed a rat that got in our home through a clothes dryer vent tube.

but we didnt use no sissy trap, 4 through n through shots from a blow gun and 2 zappings from a stun gun started to drain its smelly rat bastard life.

next morning the ravens started to work on the carcass.

If ya see one, ya got ten.

Hoppy

We have pet rats, my family loves them. I dunno about those outside rats, they look kinda nasty. Pet rats are like little dogs.

Wal-Mart Sucks

His little rat bastard paws are folded as if in a silent prayer of rat repentance.[rolleyes]

You are fucked!
You can't set traps in the state of Washington!
You can expect the JBT's to kick in your front door very soon.



"You killed it, now you eat it."
What movie does that come from?

uhhh, 8mm?

Hehehe bad joke

As the frogs used to say back when they had some military nuts: [i]pour encourager les autres.[/i]

get two more traps, bait one with peanut butter and the other with cheese. you'll find out how many more are still around.  

I suppose you high-fived yourself, you murdering bastard![:D]

A rat is a rat.  As Hoppy said, there are sure to be more and are probably regrouping for a counter-attack as I write this.

Tango down............

He aint movin.........

[b] You call that fair chase ?[/b]

Fellows, The New York rats are laughing at that picture, you want to see a rat? go down to the subway tracks in NY. LOL

"Norway rat" is a name that comes to mind.

Oh,   I second (or third) the notion that you should put out more traps to get the others.    Even if there are no others, you will kill the newcomers before they eat all your goods and poop everywhere.

I HATE rats.

In 1970, early in my Navy career, I was standing OOD inport on the forenoon watch in my destroyer in Boston Harbor.  It had snowed the night before.  While we were in the shipyard, our usual quarterdeck was unusable so we were operating from the foc'sle for a few days.

Suddenly, the petty officer of the watch noticed a large (Norway) wharf rat climbing up the number two mooring line.  Unfortunately for Mr. Rat, the ratguard prevented him from joining our crew.  Undaunted, Rat turns and clambers down the line to the dock, calmly walks over to the brow and commences to walk aboard, just ballsy as you please!  When he was about 1/2 way up the long brow, the POOW asked me if he should draw his .45 and shoot the bastard...to which I, realizing the incredible paperwork and certain disciplinary problems that would ensue when I tried to explain the unauthorized discharge of a firearm in the shipyard, the loss of a round of ammo...and finally the incredible but true rat story...demurred and told my POOW NOT to fire.  I had the messenger of the watch grab his broom and shoo the rat back down the brow.  The rat left...but NOT without a fight.

Years later, while serving in a guided missile destroyer in Pearl Harbor,  we had signs of vermin infestation...rats living aboard.

A cardinal rule was that NO food could be brought into the berthing compartments.  One night while making my inspection rounds as the Command Duty Officer, I happened into the pigsty that the boilermen and machinists called their crib.  As usual, it was filthy...but this time, especially so, with pizza remnants and crushed soda cans everywhere.  I rousted the duty engineer and had him make the engineers hold field day.  At around midnight, I re-checked the compartment and declared it fit for occupation again and they turned in.  When I made my report to the XO next morning, I mentioned the mess and he told me that the chief corpsman was going rat hunting because he had seen signs of rat infestation...and that the engineering berthing compartment was a prime target.  That day the Doc set his traps and in less than 24 hours, he had a GIANT rat.  The engineers were pissed!  Turns out they knew the rat was aboard and they were leaving scraps out for it.  It had built a nest up above the A/C ducting down in their berthing compartment!  [puke]

It looks like a roof rat. In any case always keep your traps set as there will be more out there.  There are an estimated 150 million rats in the U.S. Peanut butter is probably the best bait to use.

Roof Rat:

[img]http://www.west-ext.com/pests/roof_rat_picture.jpg[/img]

Size: Roof rat (black rat, ship rat) adult head+body length is 6-8 in (16-20 cm); tail length is 7-10 in (19-25 cm); weight is about 5-9 ounces, up to 12 ounces.

Characteristics: Soft, smooth fur; pointed muzzle; large eyes; large, almost naked ears which can be pulled over the eyes. Scaly, dark tail is longer than combined head+body length.

Color: Brown with black mixed in, to gray, to black on top with white; gray or black underside.

Droppings: Adult droppings are up to 1/2 in (12.5 mm) long, and are spindle shaped with pointed ends.



Norway Rat:

[img]http://www.west-ext.com/pests/norway_rat_picture.jpg[/img]

Size: Norway rat adult's head+body length is about 7-9 in (18-25 cm); tail length is 6-8 in (15-21 cm); weight is 7-18 ounces, up to 20.5 ounces.

Characteristics: Heavy body; coarse, shaggy fur; blunt muzzle, small eyes, small ears with dense short hairs; scaly, 2-colored tail, which is darker on top, and is shorter than the length of its head+body.

Color: Norway rats are brown with scattered black hairs, gray to yellow-white on underside.

Droppings: Adult droppings are up to 3/4 in (20mm) long, capsule shaped with blunt ends.

Besides catching the remaining Rat Bastards, you need to find out what is attracting them and remove it.  If someone in your house is dumping the crap from the cat's litter box in your yard, that's the first practice that must cease - your putting out rat candy.

If you have a cat, it should be severly disciplined for falling down on its duties.

That's that Howard Dean rat from Vermont.

Black Norwegian, [i]Rattus Rattus[/i] is what I learned in school, lo these many years ago.

Rats are more wide ranging than mice, this may have been the only one.  Set more traps, though.  Peanut buter works better than cheese.
Bacon works very well, but you can break a cat or dog's nose that way.

MMMmmmmm.  Co-Jack cheese!

My wife says that "Martha Stewarts says 'a dead rat is a good thing'"

Does anyone actually have a pic of a NYC rat? When I was in NYC last year, I looked for an infamous rat while waiting for the subways, but didn't ever see one. I just have to see how big they are.

It was said in a joking manner to mock the PETA crowd  . [:\]

[img]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-3/141064/gr.gif[/img]

Here is a pic of me feeding one in NY last year it was the size of a small dog.[;)]

That, my friend, is a member of the highly sought after 'dead rat' family. Latin name is 'deadass ratus' I believe. The 'Dead Rat' are more preferred by humans than their very closely related cousins 'Ratus Still Aliveus'. The two families are only seperated in difference of mobility and ability to inhale oxygen and destroy property valued by humans. NOTE: both 'deadass ratus' and 'ratus still aliveus' are nasty and known for spreading disease.

Well, a nutria is a rodent, so you're close...

Napkin? Ruler? Knife? Firearm? Beverage?

Bingo.

Just like rats they are highly social and will frolic and play with you if you dont show yourself as a threat.

We don't have a cat, *but* there are a ton of strays that hang out around our house.  What slackers!!  Oh ya, I found this guy in the backyard:

[img]http://greghavener.com/images/deck2.jpg[/img]

[img]http://greghavener.com/images/deck1.jpg[/img]

I set a trap like that in an old Theater I used to work in and never saw the trap, or what it caught again.

We went with steel traps chained to something heavy before we could catch and recover the Rats and traps.

They were some big bastards. Ben and Willard shit I'm talking.

Danny

.....the rat had it coming.....

I think the rat owed him money.[;)]

You would be surprised but not disappointed!

Especially the one that ratted her out to the S.E.C.

YOUR ALL WRONG!!!!! He "was" the pointman of the new RATBO S.W.A.T. Team!

Be very, very careful….

That’s Arock’s fiancé/best bud there in the picture.  He may try to frame you for stealing Wacko Jacko’s kiddy porn before the month is up.
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