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Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 15, 2014, 15:40:02 PMOk four legged ones because Alberta is rat free and they have the border patrol on the Sask. side to keep them out, and eradicate them.
Posted by 49Reo
- June 15, 2014, 11:31:04 AMQuote from: CDNRatMan on June 15, 2014, 08:47:29 AMNo rats in Alberta.......
Baloney! Every farm in Alberta will have rats; well, the 4-legged kind, anyway...
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 15, 2014, 11:23:04 AM 
lets keep this about the four legged ones, Harris did enough harm and he is not.
49 I'll send you a pipe and you can move them to the lower valley.......
Posted by moosewing3
- June 15, 2014, 08:55:44 AMIsn't Harper from Alberta? Just sayin...
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 15, 2014, 08:47:29 AMNo rats in Alberta.......
Posted by moosewing3
- June 15, 2014, 08:26:00 AMThose are the common Norwegian brown rat GB. The only neighbours I have are cottagers. A few summers ago one of the cottages was occupied by the grandchildren of the owner. These now adult gentlemen can most politely be described as borderline mentally challenged, more accurately about as sharp as a sack of door knobs in a velvet bag. They allowed trash to pile up around their properties and in them for about four months drawing rats from miles around. When winter arrived the rats were cold and made for my house and the only other year round resident's house. Through trial and error I have found that a particular poison, that comes in big blue cubes works awesome, they literally can't resist it. They will chew the cube down and tak it back to the nest. I have to watch where I store it as mice and rats come looking for it, I once put some next to a box of crackers and they took the poison. I just scatter it around the property and never any problems. Dogs leave it alone also.
Posted by greenbarn
- June 15, 2014, 08:01:32 AMWell, sounds like Mr. Pack Rat is ready to be "Evicted" himself.... I don't think we have "pack-rats" around here (well, my wife would beg to differ with that.... 
) . Isn't the pack-rat the big-headed, big-eared, bushy-tailed variety? We have the small-eared skinny tailed version her, that just looks like a 10X mouse. These do stink a lot - like mice but worse... In the cities you're likely to see them anywhere, once when I lived in town years ago during college I saw one the size of a possum in an alley once!! Around here in the country they only tend to live (usually) in barns around livestock. We had them in our barn once several years ago - never saw one, but there were holes and burrows I found so promptly put out some poison. Does that work for Pack-Rats?
Good luck trapping that beast. Are these things usually solitary? Here, you usually don't have "a rat"....
Posted by 49Reo
- June 14, 2014, 23:28:39 PMYes, Rats. My neighbor, a rather "unsavory" fellow, the type that cuts his lawn and finds complete vehicles, is moving out...read that "evicted". As a result, during the cleanup, cleaning out the, er, garage, a falling down oversized shed he stored "stuff" in, a pack rat decided to move to a more peaceful location. Yes, lucky me, he is now in my lumber pile, stinking things up something fierce. So, traps are dug out, cleaned, baited, and ready to wreak havoc on the entire rat population that DARES to set foot on my property. I HATE those things. I have a scar on the middle finger of my right hand from a knife fight with one when I was 12 or 13 years old; he was intent on killing the wiring harness in a vehicle, and I was intent on killing him first, with my pocket knife. I won, but not without casualtys to the troop. Hey, c'mon, it has to be "troop", I was by myself, unless you include the dog that was trying for first blood. On the rat, not me. Anyway, I won that war; wish me luck on this one.
Did I mention that I hate rats?