nirad3
Footballguy
Long story short, we discovered that we have a rat in our garage. I've dealt with mice before but never a rat.
We have a pest control company come out quarterly to spray for spiders and ants, so we had them come over to investigate. They wanted $750 to set traps and come check weekly and dispose of it once trapped. No way we were paying that and our landlord said no as well. He had a handyman coming over to do some minor repairs in our house, so he bought traps for us.
He told us to put food on the traps but not set them for 3-4 days so the rat would get "comfortable" with getting food from it.
Sure enough, every night he took the food. We did this for 2 nights, thinking that was good enough.
So we then baited it and set the traps. My wife heard one of the traps snap a couple nights ago, but it either went off by itself or the rat somehow had a Matrix moment and avoided getting snapped.
Now, a couple days later, he hasn't taken the food. Has he wised up? Did he leave?
Any tips or tricks? Schtick welcomed, but some advice here would be great, since it's grossing both me and my wife out (more so her, but I'll admit it's pretty nasty).
We have a pest control company come out quarterly to spray for spiders and ants, so we had them come over to investigate. They wanted $750 to set traps and come check weekly and dispose of it once trapped. No way we were paying that and our landlord said no as well. He had a handyman coming over to do some minor repairs in our house, so he bought traps for us.
He told us to put food on the traps but not set them for 3-4 days so the rat would get "comfortable" with getting food from it.
Sure enough, every night he took the food. We did this for 2 nights, thinking that was good enough.
So we then baited it and set the traps. My wife heard one of the traps snap a couple nights ago, but it either went off by itself or the rat somehow had a Matrix moment and avoided getting snapped.
Now, a couple days later, he hasn't taken the food. Has he wised up? Did he leave?
Any tips or tricks? Schtick welcomed, but some advice here would be great, since it's grossing both me and my wife out (more so her, but I'll admit it's pretty nasty).