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11-04-2010, 05:15 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: California
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Try this
Leave a razor knife in the garage and a CD player on continuous play with Slim Whitman's greatest hits. By morning the rat will slit his own throat.
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11-05-2010, 04:22 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Cartersville, Georgia KVPC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cfiidon
<snip> a CD player on continuous play with Slim Whitman's greatest hits <snip>
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Now that has gotta fall under the heading of "Cruel and Unusual Punishment"... 
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11-05-2010, 12:18 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
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If you want to avoid being accused of cruelty use Justin Beiber, Mr Rat will only last about ten minutes before it's all over, much quicker and cleaner.
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11-05-2010, 01:17 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Dayton Airpark, NV A34
Posts: 15,408
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Even better
How about playing the album "Great Rap Songs For All Time"??
Oh, wait...........great rap???
Nevermind
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010 
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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11-05-2010, 08:13 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 298
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Rodent Killing Dog
I didn't even know we had rats until I found one dead in the back yard. I'm confident my whippet, Zulu, was the killer, as she's also killed a few squirrels and moles.
About a year ago I was in the backyard on the phone with my brother, whose 8 year old son wanted a whippet, telling him about Zulu's hunting antics. Just then she took off after one, caught it and broke its back before I could say much of anything... He still got a whippet.
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RV7A QB kit -- sold and now flying in S. Africa
RV7 purchased flying
"A pilot just bides his time until his plane can take him away again, into the air"
-- Jake Grafton (Stephen Coonts, Flight of the Intruder)
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11-07-2010, 07:41 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Rochester, MN
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Great trap. I can't tell from the photo, but is the can hanging on the handle to the bucket? or did you string some wire or monofilament across the top of the bucket? I've gotta try that one. I wonder if it would work for chipmunks too. |
11-07-2010, 08:20 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
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We've had garage (and hangar) rat problems too.
In the hangar, poison is the solution. Put it in the corners every September, add more as necessary, and the amount of poop pellets in the hangar diminishes by ~95%.
The garage rat(s) have found or created a hole in one of the vents to our crawl space. Presumably, that's their lair when they aren't rummaging around in our garage. Anyway, I just spent a miserable hour down there lying in rat pee and poo, safety wiring hardware cloth across the openings in our 50 year old foundation vents.
While I was down there, I also confirmed my suspicion about why one of our alarm zones stopped working. Apparently rats like the taste of 24 gauge alarm sensor wire. Which means another trip into the crawlspace, but with different tools this time.
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Marietta, GA
2001 RV-6 N46KB
2019(?) RV-10
Last edited by Kyle Boatright : 11-07-2010 at 09:39 AM.
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11-07-2010, 09:15 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Delta, CO/Atlin, BC
Posts: 2,389
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Diamond,
Use a piece of coat hangar wire or similar, straight across the bucket. Might have to put a couple holes in the sides of the bucket, or bend the wire and duct tape it to the sides.
greg
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11-07-2010, 11:05 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Carrollton, GA
Posts: 313
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Quote:
Originally Posted by diamond
Great trap. I can't tell from the photo, but is the can hanging on the handle to the bucket? or did you string some wire or monofilament across the top of the bucket? I've gotta try that one. I wonder if it would work for chipmunks too.
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Diamond- I used some left over piano-hinge wire and drilled small holes on either side of bucket to run wire thru. You could probably also use the bottom end of a clothes hanger, depending on how big your bucket is. Also, I used a small board, with a nail on one end to place over the bucket lip, as a ramp for the mice to crawl up. Caught another mouse yesterday, and just stopped by the hangar on the way home today, and caught another one!!! It's like a box of chocolates..."You never know what your gonna get!!" Don't forget to add 4"-6" of water in the bucket so they can't jump out...and eventually drown. I think for this winter when the temp gets below freezing, I'll fill the bucket with windshield washer solution.
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RV6, Christen Eagle II(Sold)
ATP, CFII, A-IGI, A&P/IA
Carrollton, GA
Lyon?s Landing
Last edited by jmbrwn : 11-07-2010 at 11:16 AM.
Reason: Forgot some info
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11-07-2010, 02:52 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Commerce Twp. Mich.
Posts: 41
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Put automotive antifreeze in the bucket instead of water. Its poison to most animals and will kill them faster.
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) I was actually kinda surprised it worked. Hot glued some peanuts onto the can and then smothered the peanuts with a little peanut butter for extra enticement. My buddies at the airport didn't think it would work, and one even bet me a hamburger on it. Gotta collect my 'burger now!!!
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