Rat Management 39:55 YouTube UCIPM
University of California integrated pest management
Management of commensal rodents
Roof rats, Norway rats
Roof rat Ratus Ratus
Norway Rat Ratus Norvegicus
PreBaiting: important to leave empty traps out, with food unset for rats to become
accustomed before set spring trap
Neophobia: rats are afraid of new things
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IuKU6izZozo&t=1s&pp=2AEBkAIB
Above: paraphrased from video.
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Below: my 4 decades of study.
Glue traps can never be used outside due to bycatch of birds, lizards, non-target animals.
Glue traps more appropriate for attic or spaces away from pets and non-target species.
Yes, glue traps are cruel but killing two or six rats on week one is preferable to having to kill 24 or 36 or 48 rats in subsequent months if you do not exterminate rat population problem ASAP: take no prisoners.
Victor wood rat traps can only be used outside in a shoebox with a hinged door simply cut in with knife or razor blade on three sides such that rat can push through the flap to get to good smelling food
No bird will ever enter a dark, enclosed shoebox or fully closed Amazon box.
Victor wooden rat traps and similar plastic models are excellent for garage attic basement under house, crawlspace, laundry room, kitchen pantry, and most all applications especially when you can inspect visually daily or several times per week for dead rats to prevent flies.
Critical to set traps in clusters, such that you can catch an entire family of rats in one night. Again, rats are sharp, fast learners. Once a rat observes a trap in action, they will avoid.
Best to check your traps once or twice daily or more to prevent rats learning of danger
Better still if you can hear the snap of trap or secure trap to a white wire that snap will cause trap to dangle in your garage such that you could simply open your garage door each night then shine your flashlight on all 6 or 12 rat trap locations to quickly see which wouldn’t rat trap was activated
Victor wood rat traps very affordable in lots of 12 24 36 or 48 on ebay.com
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Critical to rotate food as rats are fast learners. I.e. if you start with peanut butter, first week, move to nuts, granola bars, animal fats, meat, or leftovers on subsequent days constantly rotating food stock.
California legislative processes currently under way 2025 to ban use of anti-coagulant rat poison a.k.a. warfarin or Coumadin blood thinner
due to harm to non target animals which eat dazed disoriented, and confused poisoned rats:
Cats, dogs, mountain lions, bobcat, fox coyote
Eagle Owl, hawk, falcon, egret, heron, kestrel, kite raptors
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Disposal of rat carcasses very simple as follows:
Slip both of your hands into used plastic bags as delivered by local papers where as disposable gloves. Hold trap in one bagged hand while releasing spring tension on rat with other hand, then reverse bag off of hand covering rat for disposal.
Bait and reset trap. Remove second bag from hand.
Wash hands thoroughly with soap and water
I have used this method for decades, and swear by it
Plastic newspaper bags are plentiful in recycling areas though any, and all bags may be used there plastic bags see a second purpose
Alternatively, you might drop carcass into any box bag, trash, or packaging, bound for landfill anyway. Worse things have happened. Reduce reuse discard.
Please do not pretend that any plastic bags you ditch in front of Safeway go anywhere other than into the garbage dumpster half the time.
Please do not pretend that the 50% that do go into the recycling dumpster actually get recycled. Activists have placed AirTags in these packages to prove they are not recycled.
I will testify in court for this regarding San Mateo, Santa Clara, San Francisco, Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda county Santa Cruz county California.
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