Check out the Goodnature A24 Rat and Mouse Trap from Automatic Trap: https://www.automatictrap.com/ I’ve been having a terrible time with rats both in my garden and in my pantry at the homestead, so I dove deep on how rats work, how to prevent them, deter them from your garden, and if need be…exterminate them in a humane way.
00:00 Intro
1:17 Detecting Rats
02:48 Rat Habitats
04:20 Rat Prevention
05:11 Protecting Compost Bins
06:08 Sealing Your Home
06:55 Protecting Your Harvests
08:01 Extermination Options
09:45 Trap Placement
11:00 Automatic Trap
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Pet coyote might work.
This video made my stomach hurt .
5 gallon water bucket, peanut butter, tin can, wire, and wood board…
"Understand the pest"…(but how??)
"Become the pest"…(got it…)
…..food sources…" (Annnnnd now snacking in the fridge)
Another way of sealing around pipes is to powder glass into cement and fill the hole with it
Actually the plague was thought to come from the fleas not the rats themselves
Get some cats! If you don't want/like cats, invite the neighbors' cats over with some food instead. Sure, the rats will come too (at first), but the cats will go after them. If you do get cats, make sure they are natural mousers, like Norwegian forest cats. A mouse can get through a hole the size of a dime, so traps and cats are the best way to go.
Excellent. Thanks, Kevin
Excellent posting. Thanks!!
We had to make our "veggie coop" to keep out the rats when we first moved here and began to garden! They would just chomp through regular netting. They seems to have moved on now so we don't have any issues anymore with them!
Each feral cat kills about 100 birds a year. Use a terrier instead.
That sucks dude. My flower garden is being devoured by looper caterpillars. Bout to break out a flame thrower.
Lost almost every single tomato to rats this year (and many of the pumpkins too).
Love the channel… funny and informative! I have cats so I’m burying lots of mice and rats. Interesting gadget you used at the end. Like the no suffering quick end although it did make my heart jump.
9:20 – have you made the ethical connection to eat an exclusive plant based diet? i waited til i was 23 to become vegan for the animals, the planet and my health. that was 5 years ago. my only regret is i didn't make the switch sooner!! love your channel bro. sending positive vibes.
I've managed to trap 40 rats and 11 mice this summer. Just with the old fashion rat traps with peanut butter. I have heard about using mint so that will be my next plan.
Just a correction. Black plague was caused by a bacterium that was on a flea hitched a ride on rats but not in their saliva.
I have field mice here, but fortunately my two cats keep all the rodents out of the house.
Thanks for the video. How many time would you need to continue to buy and replace the trap? You can kill one, two or three, but more may come back later.
Finding a way to repel them or creating some kind of environment that they hate might be a better long-term solution. Do you have any suggestion on repelling rats so they don't even come close in the first place? I have heard the smell of white vinegar might help. Do you have any insight?
I've set out some snap traps that I've caught a few rats with. I then get those rat carcasses and bury them in my garden. I have deep woodchip mulch and will bury the carcass at the bottom of the wood chip layer by one of my heavy feeding plants. Works great as a slow release fertilizer.
I guess that our dogs aren't doing their jobs. We don't have cats, though I'm kind of considering getting one, even though I'm allergic. Our old cat & terrier were great mousers.
Cats are good at hunting rats
You should have wild street cats catch them leave cat food in your patio they should do the job.rats smell cats for far away specially street wild cat.
Thanks for the tip! I think this trap is humane and also wouldn’t harm our natural habitat of predator birds such as hawks or owls in the area. So many of these birds got poisoned by eating dead rats killed by rat poisons.