MudderChuck

I just picked up six more clamp traps, but they are getting trap-wise, watched one the other day really leary of one of my live traps. It was even a young one. I did pick up some hollow-point pellets with a recessed cross moulded in the tip, looks lethal, haven't tried them yet. I did some research, I have two types of Rats, one type are climbers and the other sewer and burrowing Rats. I can picture trying to get my dog off a glue board. I have figured out the larger (older) Rats are leery of going into a Rat sized live trap and prefer a larger trap the size for a Raccoon or Fox. But I have caught my dog, the neighbors Cat and Blackbirds in the larger style live trap. The clamp traps I can put in places that are relatively safe from unintended catches. My guess is the poison baits the city hangs in manhole covers isn't working well anymore, the Rats are becoming immune to it. They seem to be proliferating worse than normal. Last year they had to replace fifty yards of city sewer the Rats had undermined and destroyed with their digging. About as close as I can get is 25 or 30 feet and even then I have to have good cover. Rats aren't stupid when the birds spook they head for the hills, it is like they have their own little watchdogs.