Ugg! Rats!

Lock the cats and dogs up for a night and do the 15 Foot Cure.

Put Mountain Dew in pie tin and then put some blue powder fly stuff in the pan with the Dew. The rats eat it and within 15 feet they keel over. The Dew attracts them and the fly poison kills them.

Wow, the rat terier site was one of the most interesting I've read on a long time, especially the New Yorker article about eating rats!
The glue boards stink as far as I am concerned and I think that they might repel rats and mice also. I have used them for years but it only recently they added the stinky euthanol. The only brand I know is the Tom Cat brand but I see rat boards and cans of rat glue in the Farm Tek catalog. Maybe they are euthanol-free!
I also bought some small bucket traps designed to be filled with non-toxic anti-freeze. I don't know the point of using this instead of water. These traps did not work for me as well as glue traps. One thing Farm Tek and some other places sell is a rat zapper, an electric trap that fries the rats. I haven't tried one but I have tried most of the other traps with little success.
As to Using an exterminator, I avoid all poisons because of their bad effect on the planet, groundwater, secondary poisoning or unintended consequences, even the so-called "natural" poisons like Sevin. I used to have honeybees. One time I put sevin in my garden and my bees got in the squah flowers I had dusted. They curled up and died in agony in seconds, right before my eyes. Terrible sight to bring death to such good little critters. I will never believe the labels on a poison again (labels that say it is harmless to beneficials).
Of course it is horrible to see mice and rats suffering in a glue trap, too, but they do terrific damage. I just had to give away a lawn mower because the wires had all been chewed through or off.

Lock up the cats and try some stuff the call either Last Bite or Final Bite. Most hardware stores carry it. It is a block with hollow tubes so you can tie it down so as it doesn't get carried away. It works here for us and we feed free range bunnies all the time. We just tie it up where the bunnies can't reach it. Now the coons and possums is another story. Good luck with the rats. Sam

i feel your pain. at the ranch we lived on a few years ago, the boss brought in several loads of round baled cane. hubby went to move a few bales, while i was walking by with our then, 5 dogs. good grief! hubby flagged me over, and we spent then next couple hours lifting bales, pointing them out like an overzealous soccer mom! in the end there were over 60 dead rats, not a single one got away, and we never seen any more. the dogs slept the rest of the afternoon.

good luck, those are some nasty critters, eww.

round baled cane? did that kill them?

the fly bait in pepsi is what alot of the old-timers around here say to use. We have thought about it, we are just afraid for the cats.

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I just found 2 dead rats beside my barn. Aside from being dead, those were the biggest healthiest, shiny coated rats I have EVER seen! I used Final Bite, threw one into a burrow I found. They came out for water and died outside where DH (not me) could scoop them up and dispose of them.

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I'll just leave this here http://bertc.com/subfive/recipes/cookingrats.htm

I want to vomit now..

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I didn't have too bad a problem with rats when I kept the grain/ pet food, in metal trash cans, had a good cat and a dilligent Airedale terrier too. BUT then the neighbor moved and evidently he'd kept his garbage in his barn- that had bred rat problems but kept the rats at his place until he moved and the landlord cleaned up the garbage. All those rats came across the highway to our place and it was horrible. We used the RatZapper traps with the better lithium batteries and had good results. I still keep all pet food away from our home and still keep everything cleaned us as much as possible. No rats in a long time. Back when our goats were messy spilly kids I could stand still after feeding grain and watch little young rats come out from under the gaoat sheds and eat out of the grain pans right next to the goat kids who ignored them UGH!!! A good cat and the rat zappers worked good then too.

Best wishes. I love it when the cat kills the rats and the Airedale takes them off to ????

Well, Chris put a 55 gallon barrel tied to a pole at a 45 degree angle, with 5 gallons of water in the bottom of it. 12 rats in 3 days..wow! And some of them were big suckers too! There are more, because we can hear them...

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I had rats a couple years ago and a friend told me to mix plaster of paris with peanut butter and leave balls of it where the rats were, within a couple of weeks they were all gone.

Go with a barrel trap it easy to make, effective and you won't have to reset it all the time. When the critters are dead we just throw them out for the wildlife to scavange and they're not full of all kinds of chemicals.

Here is a picture of a mousetrap I made, just make a bigger one for your bigger varmits.

Good Luck