Little Butch 16 Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Just found some thick wire mesh in the garden and am thinking about making a simple live rat trap Any body got plans for one ?? What would i need ?? Cheers, Leon 1 Link to post Share on other sites
theobenmike 0 Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 One of Ditch's earlier threads shows tha maff blue prints for a mink cage trap. Although designed for mink they will catch rats and greys...................here Or if your not that good with making things or can't be arsed you can buy a ready made one here Link to post Share on other sites
Little Butch 16 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Would like to buy one as that looks great but doubt my mum would let me spend money on one She'd be like why the hell do you want that for Leon Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Leon; Have you a decent air pistol? If not, how are ye planning to despatch any rats ye may live catch? Just a thought. Link to post Share on other sites
Little Butch 16 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Nah i havent mate, ive got a slingshot though Leon Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 A catapult? Leon; Please stop right there, mate. It's just not going to happen, is it? You'll almost certainly damage the trap. You'll very possibly hurt yeself. Least likely thing ye ever going to achieve there is a swift and humane despatch of that rat. Ok. Let's have another look at this: You're a young man with an itch to catch a rat. Ye have no budget worth thinking about. No proper means of despatching a captive animal. Why a live one? Catch a live one and ye plan to make it dead, right? Well, unless that act itself holds some disturbing appeal for ye? Why not aim to catch / kill a rat, all in one. Take the need for handling a live creature out of the equation. Check out what Mr Waters and others are telling us, on this board, about Snaring Rats. Needn't cost ye a penny. Will work. Any rat coincidentally still showing signs of life when ye get to him can be sent to the promised land by a sharp and well aimed tap with any shortish bit of metal rod. End of. Wouldn't that scratch the itch for ye just as well? Link to post Share on other sites
Little Butch 16 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 I can see where ye coming from mate Yeah snaring would be great and i made a rat snare yesterday, Just need a good ratting place Leon Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Got any of those grubby little 'streams' around your way, mate? Sorts of places that trickle down through scrubby bits of ground where no one really bothers to go? Rats are very attatched to water. They need to drink a fair bit of it and it also gives them a place and sense of security. You urban or rural? Link to post Share on other sites
Little Butch 16 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Im rural Yeah we have lots of little streams that seperate the fields Do i have to set the snare in a specific place ? Cheers leon Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Ditch_Shitter Posted December 9, 2007 Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Rural? Excellent! So, like me, ye'll not be troubled by so many idiots finding and disrupting what ever ye get up to Specific places to set? The fine details will be covered by Mr Waters et al. (He was explaining to me just the other night about how this particular rat had to make a leap across a tuft of grass ..... He got it, of course! ) But, for a more generalised, standing there looking out over ye ground and figuring the best Location? I'd be looking first for a farm yard. The buildings there will be a source of shelter and food to the local rat populations. Pick such a place and then, with the farmers permission, seek out the ditches that run away from it. These will be the little Rat Moterways. Moterways heading straight into the heart of Rat Heaven. But Rat Heaven, being a working farm area, wouldn't be ye best location. Ye work would get inadvertantly disturbed by the usual activities. Just get behind the actual buildings and head those suckers off at the pass. They'll be coming and going there. Try to work hard up against the back walls at the perimeter. Look for where they're going in and out. There'll be small tunels emerging from the rough grass and ground. Even well worn little trackways. Take ye time and look hard. Ye'll soon find them. Then set ye snares as instructed else where here. And for gods sake wear gloves! Better to be seen working in yellow Margolds than be buried with yellow eyes Link to post Share on other sites
Little Butch 16 Posted December 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2007 Cheers matey I am going to go around the farmers and ask if i can snare some rats and try and get the dog into it I know of a perfect place but its a private wood and your not aloud in there so no good really So im looking for rat holes and the runs ?? Im buying some rabbit snares for xmas, could i use these for rats aswell, if i set them lower and make the loop smaller ??? Leon Link to post Share on other sites
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