The wax baits work well I think. They smell delicious, like chocolate, so keep them away from kids. The only other thing I have found that works is the trapdoor style traps. You need to use peanut butter or something that will stick to the plate, otherwise they just pick it up and walk off.

Nail down rodenticide wax blocks.

I've just wiped out a colony of rats who moved into my shed & bird cages.

Still worked on them.

I used these from Bunnings

or this  - the lid should fit on most 20 litre bucket/paint pails.

You smear peanut paste on the under side of the raised part of the yellow lid at the back above the trap flap.

The mouse/rat goes out onto the black flap to get to the bait and is tipped into the bucket.

You can leave the bucket empty but then you have to get rid of live mice/rats.

Or you fill bucket a third with water and the animals drown. you tip them out, bag them and put in rubbish.

Rats and mice poop a lot tho, yuck!

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2024 at 5:09pm:


You are kidding, right? One rat got into my house by climbing the pipes up and through the hole in my toilet room. It then proceeded into the kitchen where it managed to climb up the hand towel onto the stove top and then over to where I had left a packet of Vita Weat. The rat managed to chew through the cardboard packaging and eat a few biscuits before it knocked over the package onto the floor. When I stirred from my sleep to figure out what the noise was, the rat scurried back out the way it came.

I checked the security footage the next morning. The security camera in the kitchen (focusing on the back door) captured the footage of the rat coming around the corner and making its way to the food source. I had to get all the tea towels, the hand towel and a few other items washed. And then I had to do another bench top and stove top clean of the area before I was confident that the place was sterile enough again.

"they don't eat much" bollocks.

freediver wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2024 at 5:53pm:


Same here. Except, I have not got the snake problem, yet. I moved the compost bin from the front yard (under the tree) to out the back, just behind the house to get the shade. The other day, I went to empty the scrap bin, and I saw that there was a tunnel dug under one side of the bin. Obviously, "Ratty" has burrowed under to get to the scraps. But, better than the rat climbing up the drain pipe to get in to my house and eating the biscuits I have on the benches.

I have had such a fear of snakes getting in under the house that I have put sensor lights at two sections of the garage. Plus, the security camera is keeping an watch over much of the area. So far, Ratty has chased off my neighbour's cat. But, I will be damned if it can fight off a snake.

FD—a couple Australian terriers will get rid of ALL rats in short order!