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Posted by 49Reo
- June 17, 2014, 10:54:36 AMQuote from: CDNRatMan on June 17, 2014, 10:19:32 AM
when I was in Cold Lake AB I had a six ft fence around my yard, and my border collie/lab mix she killed more skunks and cats coming under the fence, and never got sprayed.......I had no animals around my yard........
....except one big rat.... 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 17, 2014, 10:19:32 AM when I was in Cold Lake AB I had a six ft fence around my yard, and my border collie/lab mix she killed more skunks and cats coming under the fence, and never got sprayed.......I had no animals around my yard........
Posted by Troll
- June 17, 2014, 07:53:58 AMSomewhere, I have a picture of my late, much missed Scottish Terrier puppy Angel. When she was just the ripe old age of 5 months, she dispatched 12 grain rats in about 30 seconds. It's a built in behavior, no lessons necessary. I've had a Scottie or two around the house for about 40 years...no problem with either vermin or cats...and the rabbits stay out of the yard, too!
Posted by 49Reo
- June 16, 2014, 23:16:57 PMPhobia my foot, have toy ever seen the mess those critturs make? And why peanut butter, the cat food worked just fine....
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 16, 2014, 22:12:04 PMCat food, next time try peanut butter.......
you need to talk to some one about your phobia......perhaps PC.......
Posted by 49Reo
- June 16, 2014, 22:08:21 PMWell, the Mad Trapper won this round. Got the stinky little sucker last night.The funny thing is, the first night he sprung the live trap but escaped, last night he fought his way back in for the cat food I had used for bait; must have ate too much to squeeze out through the hole he went in through. Anyway, there he was in the trap so I introduced him to my pellet gun.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 16, 2014, 00:34:25 AMTo quote my mountain friend from the NG papers....
"In the Canadian province of Alberta, a 50-year battle has succeeded in keeping the province rat free. But it's not an easy task. To deter such a resourceful animal requires eternal vigilance."
this article has more info for you to read,
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0331_030331_rats.html
I lived in AB for 5 years and was amazed by this fact and it has to do with the grain.
Posted by 49Reo
- June 15, 2014, 23:09:26 PMSo that's why you won't come out west......can't get past the "Rat Patrol".... 
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"....