In war council with Neighbor L, I was advised to run a length of pipe down a place where Bre’er Pack Rat is known to go, then set the trap in the pipe. “They can’t resist going through pipes.”
I don’t know if that’s really true, but due to my policy of never throwing anything away I do have some lengths of old rusty 6″ stovepipe. So, I laid my evil, inescapable trap.
And when I went out to check it in the (still rather frosty) morning, I saw that the trap had been sprung.
Ha ha! Mine is an evil laugh! I have achieved victory over my enemy!
And then I gazed upon the absolutely crushed body of a perfectly innocent field mouse, and was reminded that there’s more than one rodent in the desert.
Curses! Foiled again!
Yep, rats and other small vermin like hidden travel routes, you can lean a board against the foundation and place the trap inside their as well. Targeting a certain rat – call Uncle Sam and ask for a drone air strike on a target you will light up with a laser.
We have a lot of opossums here. I figured out a while back that killing one just made space for a new one, so now I use my large human brain to outwit them instead. So yeah, sure, I have lots o’ possums, and they have free run of the yard (on accounta they eat palmetto bugs), but no access to the tomatoes.
At lest it wasn’t a skunk! My buddy Pete devised a double rat-trap with the cheese (peanut butter) in the middle, and a chain attached to a stake. Each arm came down hard but it took a .22LR to end the striper – and then a week of de-fumigation.