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Better then peanut butter...Slim Jims. Much easier to clean off also. They have even more smell, and will not turn rancid as fast as the peanut butter. Also, give them free samples for a few days, then set them. This will usually get even the ones that are trap shy. The First Strike bag bait work here in chicken and pigeon coops, where the hard wax based baits usually are refused.

I've no idea what a Slim Jim is but strike two.

Another big (slightly smaller) male this morning.

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I'll have a crack, Pumkin seeds, By the way i'm not a fan of poisons, i use an air rifle with a scope or the cat, the air rifle's more fun but the cat is fully automatic.

Strike Three!

Fish food

Have you tried washing the bottom of the rat zapper? The smell of fried rat builds up (or maybe they pee in shock), and the others stay away. Make sure you take the batteries out before washing ;-}

Yes, I soak the bottom of it in warm soapy water and wipe out any residual rodent stuff, but it doesn't seem to help.

Where do you buy the rat zappers?

I went in to the evil green box and they didn't have any.

If you google rat zappers there are a few online stores that sell them, but I have seen them in rural/farm supply stores so you might have more luck looking there.

When we had a bit of a problem on the farm, I used an old air rifle taped to a chair leg in the lounge room, but carefully aimed at a hole in the screen door on the other side of the next room. I had a string on the trigger, and as the mouse paused at the opening, I could pull the string without any obvious movement and make a very clean kill. All this from my desk.

But for the most part, used normal mouse traps that didnt work at all (but I lost bait all the time) in the end I would cut a small hole in an ice cream container, drop some bait into it, and set a normal mouse trap directly under the hole. The bait wasnt on the trap, just anywhere inside the container. To get in, the mouse would have to drop directly down from the hole onto the trigger. Zero bait lost. Many mice caught. Even if they didnt land on the trigger by some miracle, they would have to stand on it to get out. I'm pretty sure it was literally 100% successful.

It was the birth of the invention engine because of the old "build a better mouse trap" saying.

All mice went to the Magpies that I would whistle in. They went crazy for them to the point of taking them out of my hand. (normal safe distance was kept to perhaps 10 feet)

It's a better mouse trap, but there's no market for an ice cream container with a hole in it.








As usual I give this invention freely to the world. You may make it, profit from it, do do whatever you want with it, but if you improve upon it, I ask that the improved design also falls under this rights agreement, and ask that you give your improved design freely to the world. Just be nice basically.

I got my Rat Zapper online from Derwent Traders in Tasmania.

I'll give BW's trap in a box idea a go next time I see evidence of rodents- good thinking BW!
Maybe multiple traps in a big box with some chook food will be a set and forget for a week type catcher.

$100

I think I'll try the ice cream container. Should work for rats with a big ice cream container.

Only thing is I don't have a big ice cream container

I might be forced to buy some ice cream.