Rat

[Wado II]

Finally caught the rat that ate my truck wires and left me afoot. It finally went inside the live trap I guess the mice had been tripping it and escaping before the big un had a chance to get caught. I moved it closer to the side of the building and got it. I backed out right after we got it back from the shop and saw it waddle out from under the truck never could find it. Dang thing was as big as a hamster.

[Trouthunter]

So is it just sleeping until you locate it elsewhere?

[WillieT]

Full body mount?

[Slabmaster]

So there was only one?🙄

[Bebo's Dad]

It looks comfortable.

[Shaky]

fried, stew, or slow smoked?

[BDGreen]

Chicken fried.

[HAYBL]

Looks like Remy from the cartoon movie Ratatouille.

[Wado II]

My bucket wasn't deep enough to submerge the trap so I had to resort to other means to end this reign of terror that has been bestowed upon my Ford. It was a female so I might have gotten several more out of future wire chewings. I will keep the trap baited the last time I had this problem there were two of them one got into the bait chunks and died in the Polaris front compartment the other one got stomped to death after I sprayed it with hornet spray. The hornet spray if directed to their head will get them choked down and they aren't as frisky. I keep #12 22 rat shot in my Marlin lever rifle it does the job at close range if you can get a shot. It's the old style crimped rat shot not the CCI plastic cap stuff. It had a death grip on the cage I pulled the hide off of its tail trying to get it out of there after the #12 procedure.

[Unknownstrohsfan]

My bucket wasn't deep enough to submerge the trap so I had to resort to other means to end this reign of terror that has been bestowed upon my Ford. It was a female so I might have gotten several more out of future wire chewings. I will keep the trap baited the last time I had this problem there were two of them one got into the bait chunks and died in the Polaris front compartment the other one got stomped to death after I sprayed it with hornet spray. The hornet spray if directed to their head will get them choked down and they aren't as frisky. I keep #12 22 rat shot in my Marlin lever rifle it does the job at close range if you can get a shot. It's the old style crimped rat shot not the CCI plastic cap stuff. It had a death grip on the cage I pulled the hide off of its tail trying to get it out of there after the #12 procedure.

Heartless bastage, where is the love for the oppressed rata?

[Wado II]

That Rata cost me some dinero.

[RapturEd]

RLM (ratlivesmatter) ... NOT!! 😁

[Tsip]

I considered the play by play....spectacular.

[KWeber]

we killed lottsa rats in Daddy's big haybarn w/those crimped shells...
barn had lights so about 10pm we'd fling open the door and hit the lights... dogs had as much fun as us...

[Wado II]

I got to shoot rats with gramps old pump Winchester 22. Go into the hay barn and shine a flashlight and they would be running on the ceiling joists like shooting quail. When we tore the old barns down up here in 2010 the guy helping me caught a huge rat that was solid gray no brown markings. He chased it around and finally whacked it with a V belt that was hanging in the barn. Didn't find a single snake but chingos of spiders I couldn't sleep a couple of nights we were here working. Dreamt of spiders. My dad always talked about Pear Rats we had some living in a big Agave cluster we made the mistake of planting here. I had enough of it finally and got the loader and dug all of it up and burned it. Nothing but a rat haven.

[Univ.of Hard Knocks grad]

BIL is a mechanic and it is very common problem with rodents & also then snakes moving into a vehicle. Rats helped the Russian defeat the Germans by eating the wires/insulation in their vehicles while seeking warmth.

[Wado II]

They destroyed my neighbors new Kubota tractor. He traded it in and his new John Deere immediately got screwed up. They are using rodent deterrent bags the foreman swears they work he leaves his skid steer in the hay barns never has any problems. I was told the wiring Deere used had either peanut or soybean oil in the insulation was why they ate it so bad. My friend down the road from me has a Challenger track style tractor in his shop now with a chewed up wiring harness. It's a mess nothing works.

[KWeber]

Henry makes a smoothbore 22 called the "garden gun" Marlin used to,,, I've even heard of 22 ratshot clay shoots but never seen one

[KWeber]

https://www.henryusa.com/shotgun/garden-gun-smoothbore-22/

[Wado II]

I have seen the garden guns. I have one I call my garden gun it's a Winchester Wildcat made in Russia. It has a 16" barrel and I shoot CCI Quiets suppressed in it. Kind of like a pellet rifle it's deadly and super quiet. I sniped plenty of Starlings with that thing I have fragmenting hollow points for it. I popped a ground squirrel with one here in the yard it looked like one of those prairie dogs that had been shot with a 22-250.