my place in the caribou is quite remote, we are having serious problems with dirty pack rats getting in to our cabins and pissing everywhere, we have tried, rat traps with peanut butter and bacon, coni bears in boxes, stickey traps, tom cat poison, snares, and reddi mix cement mixed with corn meal , they flip the rat traps so we screwed them down , caught a few in live traps as well, each method kills a few but they evolve and continue to raid our cabins any ideas ?
BC Pack rats any solutions ?
- Thread starter aklavik
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- AB foothills
We have them here in abundance as well. Put your traps covered in PB inside a 2' section of 6" stove pipe, they cant resist. Put the stove pipe along where they travel, they are curious little pricks!
That is the best method I have so far as to catching them, referred to me by the local old timers and it works.
The stove pipe is key, they cant resist checking it out.
That is the best method I have so far as to catching them, referred to me by the local old timers and it works.
The stove pipe is key, they cant resist checking it out.
Yeast, buy a large can, buy a large jar of cheap peanut butter, and a large loaf of wonder bread. Wonder bread lasts a long time,
they are the ones who made twinkie's.
1 spread peanut butter on wonder bread
2 cover the peanut butter with a layer of yeast
3 put bread outside
4 get dollar store small stainless steel bowels and fill with water
Rats will eat bread, yeast will make them thirsty, rats will drink water, yeast will turn to gas and blow them up!!!
This is an old fish plan solution to killing rats!
they are the ones who made twinkie's.
1 spread peanut butter on wonder bread
2 cover the peanut butter with a layer of yeast
3 put bread outside
4 get dollar store small stainless steel bowels and fill with water
Rats will eat bread, yeast will make them thirsty, rats will drink water, yeast will turn to gas and blow them up!!!
This is an old fish plan solution to killing rats!
- Location
- AB foothills
They can do that! My neighbors are having a tough time with them right now.
I have packed a few home with me under the hood of one of the trucks when there visiting or working.
Those little buggers are relentless.
I have packed a few home with me under the hood of one of the trucks when there visiting or working.
Those little buggers are relentless.
07blackwater
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Port Coquitlam, BC
Any time I have problems with vermin the same thing always works.
North balls.
Put one or two in every corner of your cabin. Anywhere you figger they might enter as well.
Always worked for me.
North balls.
Put one or two in every corner of your cabin. Anywhere you figger they might enter as well.
Always worked for me.
Arloashean
CGN Regular
- Location
- People's Republic of Toronto
Apparently this works well:
5 gallon bucket 1/4 full of RV antifreeze (less toxic than auto) with a ramp made of a thin strip of wood and peanut butter bait on a dowel over the brim.
Lots of YouTube videos and other instruction sites on a quick search, e.g.:
http://fivegallonideas.com/bucket-mouse-trap/
The antifreeze makes sure that the decaying catch doesn't stink up the place.
Also wander around inside and out and fill as many cracks/openings as you can with expanding foam.
5 gallon bucket 1/4 full of RV antifreeze (less toxic than auto) with a ramp made of a thin strip of wood and peanut butter bait on a dowel over the brim.
Lots of YouTube videos and other instruction sites on a quick search, e.g.:
http://fivegallonideas.com/bucket-mouse-trap/
The antifreeze makes sure that the decaying catch doesn't stink up the place.
Also wander around inside and out and fill as many cracks/openings as you can with expanding foam.
Arloashean
CGN Regular
- Location
- People's Republic of Toronto
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Looks like the peanut butter soon gets knocked off. Maybe pop-rivet a bottle cap to one side to put the peanut butter in and a small metal weight to the opposite side. Would have to be light enough that Country Mouse would still be heavy enough to make the "log" spin though! 
A layer of some opaque oil on top of the anti-freeze might keep the dead bodies from spooking the little fellas!
A layer of some opaque oil on top of the anti-freeze might keep the dead bodies from spooking the little fellas!
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You have to stop them where they are coming in the cabin. Then kill off the ones inside. There is a spray foam with vermin chemical in it. Buy a box of steel wool too. Stuff the hole with steel wool and spray foam it in place. If they can squeeze their head through, the rest of the body will follow. A trap line needs to be checked and reset often.
Nasty stinky messy little creatures they are.
That antifreeze above needs to be 4 inches deep for packrats or they can touch bottom and jump out.
Nasty stinky messy little creatures they are.
That antifreeze above needs to be 4 inches deep for packrats or they can touch bottom and jump out.
BigUglyMan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- New Scotland
Looks like the peanut butter soon gets knocked off. Maybe pop-rivet a bottle cap to one side to put the peanut butter in and a small metal weight to the opposite side. Would have to be light enough that Country Mouse would still be heavy enough to make the "log" spin though!
My MIL used a similar rig to catch 50-odd mice so far this season. She didn't use the aluminum can and peanut butter method, just the bucket, ramp and water (with sunflower seeds floating on top). Seems to have worked well.
I'm going to try the same method in the basement though I'll use water...can't have antifreeze lying around with the dogs in the house...bad mix.
I dunno about all of the above...... but in this part of the bc interior..... we use barn cats
and I buy "wolf's urine" from the local tack and feed and that goes all around the wood shed and garden area.
keeps unwanted critters away from nesting in the firewood pile
seems to be working for us
I sure like the beer can "log roll" trap, might build one of those just for the fun of it LOL
and I buy "wolf's urine" from the local tack and feed and that goes all around the wood shed and garden area.
keeps unwanted critters away from nesting in the firewood pile
seems to be working for us
I sure like the beer can "log roll" trap, might build one of those just for the fun of it LOL
- Location
- AB foothills
Alberta has always had pack rats, also referred to is bushy tailed wood rats. Not the same as Norway rats.
But Alberta is not rat free. I have killed Norway rats in both Lethbridge and Calgary.
Packrats are actually native to Alberta and there has never been an attempt to eradicate them. They have and always be a part of our native landscape.
No one lived in our place for about 5 years when we took ownership. There was a five gallon pail setup in the basement. It had worked extremely well and there was some serious mouse soup in the pail. Gag a maggot, to steal a prairie phrase. Pack rat lived in the family place, a remote cabin, for the whole winter. What a stink. I bleached and painted; it is now a storage shed but it still has a little odeur de rat enden. I use expandable foam and embed heavy wire grating in any possible ports of entry. Once you figure that place is rat proof leave some poison in case there are any stowaways left behind when you lock up. That stove pipe idea looks like a winner.
Hotwheels81
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- South of GP
The BC pack rat's I'm famniliar with are about 1-3lb's, bushy tail that peels off when you grab it, bad attitude.
We used live traps baited with shiney Christmas tree ornaments and dispatched them with a .22 after they clamp the end of the barrel in there mouth...
Nasty filthy critters... Mothball's work on mice, never stopped our pack rats.
We used live traps baited with shiney Christmas tree ornaments and dispatched them with a .22 after they clamp the end of the barrel in there mouth...
Nasty filthy critters... Mothball's work on mice, never stopped our pack rats.
