There's a rat in mi kitchen......

[TheoriginalLEM]

Any recommendations for humane traps ?

I have dogs so cannot poison

My fil got something, I think it’s called a box trap? You put some bait in and when the animal goes after it the end snaps shut, trapping the animal in the little tube. it doesn’t harm the animal at all. I think he got it from amazon.

Pest control put poison behind kitchen kickboards -rat will find but not dogs

Phone pest control to do it properly, then make sure your air bricks (assuming that’s where they got in) are replaced with metal mesh here to stop them getting in again.

Honestly, I'd try and get your council to assist. They are working through COVID in my area due to the public health risk.

Ive no wish to harm them, just stop the fucker from eating y house! Its hard to explain but it is behind the walls i found its entrance and just wish to relocate it

Where are you going to relocate it to? If you relocate it far away, it's going to struggle and may have a lingering death through starvation/fighting.

Get in touch with the local council pest control and have them sort it, it’s a hard job moving rodents and there’s never just 1! When we bought a new house it was full of mice, I couldn’t sleep with the thought of them, it cost just £60 to sort the problem the guy was very knowledgeable and said people themselves can never be rid fully.

I paid £60 yesterday for pest control to come and advise and put down poison behind kick boarded so kids can't get to it

@MereDintofPandiculation that is a worry, i will have to think about it but would rather dispatch humanely than poison or break its back. I realise there will be more than one

[quote TheoriginalLEM]@MereDintofPandiculation that is a worry, i will have to think about it but would rather dispatch humanely than poison or break its back. I realise there will be more than one[/quote]
Can you block the entrance? Then it will relocate itself.
Also, don't the dogs deter it?

In the long term, block any holes with mesh, with the smallest holed chicken wire you can find. Or with expanding foam with wire wool inside (their teeth apparently can't get through the wire wool but expanding foam is a piece of cake for them)

We had a eat behind the dishwasher last year, it had come up through a gap in the floorboards. It ended up eating tea lights (!?), horrible creatures

Humane is always best dogs or not.

Rats are smart, wonderful, affectionate creatures. They don’t deserve to be harmed.

Call UB40

As a child on the farm we used to shoot them with an air gun. Was a quick death after a bit of practice

Sell up...NOW!!! I would have to lol!

Please kill them. I had rats in the kitchen. They ate through wiring, plaster on the walls, flooring, drains and kitchen units. In excess of 20k to rectify. Covered up by the previous owners of the house. They’re not friendly pets.

I've had them.
Get some rat poison and mix with something tasty and stick it behind the kitchen kickboards.
It kills them very quickly.

I am sorry but they deserve to be killed. They are gross and carry diseases and will eat through electrical wires causing fire hazard.

YABU to say there is a rat in your kitchen. He’ll have friends.

I’d contact pest control.

I once went for an early morning wee, as I sat down I noticed a poo in the toilet and cursed my young son. After my wee I stood and turned to flush the poo blinked. Yup, that's right, there was a rat in my toilet...

Years later I still remember that experience.

Years ago my dog started sleeping by the cooker in the kitchen. He was quite old and going a bit do-lally so thought nothing of it. Went out one day with the dog, came back via the kitchen back door and my dog barged in and almost caught this huge rat! We got a humane trap, caught it the next day and took it on a long car drive to release. Found out that the downstairs toilet had been taken out but not capped off!! Shower tray had been put over it. Sorted that and it didn't happen again. No way could I have killed the rat.

Check with your council. In our area it's subsidised if you call out pest control through the council.

Try your local council and ask for their recommended rat catcher.

And be grateful it's a rat and not a glisglis. We've just had one of those which, fortunately, our cats caught. Disposing of these is a lot more fraught.

Get a professional in.
They will deal with the problem in the kitchen and assess the situation to see what is attracting them (food, water, shelter) as you'll only get more otherwise.

@BewilderedDoughnut - yes. Completely agree.