I saw the darn thing! it was huge!!!! a big ol rat in my home and i have 2 small children, i'm afraid it'll bite them. What do you recommend to kill this monster?
I would firstly recommend a live trap, as I believe the killing of wild rodents is inhumane. These can be found at farm supply stores and some pet stores, and also rented sometimes from your local SPCA or animal shelter. If you are intent on killing it, use an edible rat poison and do not allow your other animals or children to handle or eat it. Rat poison works very well on rats since they cannot vomit. The only problem is they usually crawl back to their holes to die so it may die in your walls or another place you wouldn't like. Try removing any food that the rat can get into so he has no choice but to eat the poison, or leave to find food elsewhere. Please do not use glue traps or mousetraps, as they are very inhumane and often do not actually kill the rat, just make it suffer until it starves to death.
Do not use rat poisons. Rats nowadays are smart and just pass by it. And by stepping the poison, it may spread to your house which can also poison your children and pets if you have. At night, scatter some food to the floor with wide space. Just make sure that your children are not around or asleep already. Watch them eating silently. Then, BANG! Shot it with a shotgun! It is effective. That is how my dad get rid of the rats!
The best rat trap (but not the cheapest) is the Rat Zapper; you can get it at a hardware store. I electrocutes rats and mice quickly and humanely, but it isn't strong enough to harm a child if the child should get into it. If you have one rat [and a big one!] you have more. Look to find out where they are getting in and cover the hole(s). Rats can be shy of anything new; it may take a while they approach the trap, but after the first one goes in, the others will too.There's no blood to alert them to danger. It comes with directions. [If you want to speed this up, go to a pet store and ask for a little soiled bedding from the rat cage. A tiny bit of this in the trap will reassure rats that the trap is okay.] Regular snap traps are cheap and pretty effective, but messy and hazardous to children and pets. Don't use poison, as the poisoned rats may later be eaten by a cat or an owl; and of course it is dangerous to pets and children too.
1. This is NOT an appropriate question for the PET RODENTS category - it belongs in Home Garden. 2. Buy either a humane trap and release the rat outside, or, failing that, buy a trap as close to this ( hokkiplast.fi/loukut/english.php ) as possible. 3. Go out and buy yourself some common sense . Rats won't hurt you if YOU don't hurt THEM!
