I have a beagle, who WAS asleep, but heard the 'howling' at the end of your video, haha, and now he's howling too! And it's so dang cute!!! I have a rat on my camera at night. Never saw a rat this big. I used to live in New Orleans, but this was no Nutria rat. It is a Norway apparently. We live wayyyy out in the country in north central FL. I kept seeing this rat appearing at night, and he comes nearly every night. He seemed like he was all jacked up on the rear end, haha, and seems to have some kind of personality! I don't want to catch him, we have no animals or livestock here, just country life, in central FL, along with the alligators, mosquitoes, and love-bugs!
Very informative and useful. It was especially interesting to listen to the different sounds that the Norway Rat can make. The facts that you provide should prove helpful for dealing with rat infestations. Well done!
These rats have very short lifespan but produce a lot of babies and are Kitten Sized. Totally fuel my hatred as I once upon a time have to deal with a lot of them.
I've been dealing with nyc rats that have ventured far away from the underground subways. The big ones are smart and patient. I was working in my yard for a while and turned over a shelf that I suspected was a rat haven and only then did a big rat run out. It was unfazed by me working around it
At 3:54 it looks like he's contemplating something: "Yeah, life in a cage might suck, but these fruit snacks are on point! Fuckin' delish! Maybe it'd be nice just chillin' in this little cage eating fruity chews for the rest of my days. Totally worth it!" Lol.
Pet fancy rats are fairly loyal and cuddly. The complete opposite of their wild relations. Fancy rats probably have the same thought process but on a much more tamer level.
I laughed when I saw the Bait because the Disney Candies are supposed to be a 'happy food' but a Rat got Baited and Trapped. Norway Rats are cute as Fancy Rats, as Pests they gotta go.
@beaneatingoni1353 yeah, wild Norways and Roof Rats are all cute. It just sucks when a captured rat is aggressive and you just want to pet it. NYC Pizza Rat was a wild Norway, and so many people thought they were cute.
I had a monster Norway rat (among many others) living under my shed. I'd catch the medium and small rats in snap traps but the big mamma set them off and ate well lol. FINALLY I caught her in a conibear trap placed above a hole she dug w sunflower seeds at the bottom. Sounds barbaric, but it was very satisfying to finish her off with the c02 pistol. The raccoons ate well that day.
@@FrederickDunn It's a 500fps C02 cartridge powered pistol. Within 5 yards it'll blow a pellet straight through them. I use a pellet rifle for longer range. I've caught chipmunks that were half eaten by the rats. They're really a plague. Imagine how many hoarders passed away in their home & were eaten to the bone by rats 🐀 ☠️
The TomCat black snap trap has worked very well for me. I have four traps, and when I find a (dead) rat in one, I sterilize that trap so there is no residual smell from the trap's previous victim. I've had these four traps for several years. They stand up well to repeatedly being used; they are easy to clean, bait, and set up. I recommend tethering the trap with some fine wire, so that a half-dead rat doesn't disappear with the trap and dies someplace where you can't find it until you can smell it. Ugh ...
I used to have a Norway rat as a pet. They're really smart, mine was able to unlatch his own cage from the inside and leave freely whenever he wanted just from seeing me open and close it a few times. Took me days to figure out how he kept getting out then I saw him do it.
Thank you for posting. I am more knowledgeable now. ATTN VIEWERS: If time is of the essence turn your view speed to x2 and pause on the text to learn Norway Rat facts.
Yeah my cat is all up in my face right now! I think it's time for the camera man to test how long this rat can hold it's breath underwater! Check to see if they are bullet proof/B.B.or pellet
Don't set the trap at first. Bait it (peanut butter) wait till rats are used to feeding from the unset trap for a few days running then set it. Make sure you kill rat as if you release it not only will it come back bust it will learn never to go near the trap again.
My most successful traps have been the Victor electronic zapper traps. Many times I get two rats in the same trap and all end up the same.Their voracious appetites often find them visiting the same traps on numerous occasions. They work extremely well. After every use I clean them with peroxide and bait the trap with peanut butter. Best $50 I ever invested!
I have one of these in my attic. I had XFinity install a camera up there and have been tracking its visits, about once every four days in the middle of the night. Thanks for the informative video.
I have to be honest here... IF I had one inside my attic, I would be up there with night vision goggles and a .22 pellet gun and nail it. They don't need much time to chew into the structure. Once your camera logs the times and routines of that rat, it's time to stage an ambush. They are THAT bad. I used to live in Charleston, SC and my buddy was a Master Plumber, he was terrified of Rats and they were under some of the old homes down by Battery Park... I went with him and picked off the rats while he worked in a crawl space. It's serious business when you see that they even chew holds in plumbing to drink from the leak they create. Fuzzy nightmares.
@@FrederickDunn We'll, you'd have to live up there. My camera has motion sensors, and it really looks like this rat just checks in every four days in the middle of the night. It always enters from the south, crosses the very wide camera view field, and exits from the north over the course of two minutes. (Are these rats creatures of habit?) I have had the attic inspected by a large local pest control company, and am awaiting a bid to seal off the openings, set traps, etc. There's no food, or insulation up there to nest in. But I'm not letting this go. The opponent is worthy, and the war begins soon.
They are creatures of habit and generally run the same circuit. They also have new object avoidance, so any traps have to remain in place for a very long time before the older rats will enter them. Younger rats go right in and are easy, it's the old wise ones that are the greatest challenge. They will observe younger rats getting trapped and then just walk off having learned something new. I've spent months... sad I know, just outwitting one specific rat and when I do finally get it, it's a little depressing as it was a worthy opponent. They hear extremely well, smell everything and survive like nothing else. I sort of identify with the movie "Unknown Origin"... I get it, one can be consumed with defeating a single rat.
@@FrederickDunn Oh wow, Katee Sackhoff. I've added that movie to my Amazon watchlist. Wish I had an AI to fight this rat, as long as the AI worked for me, of course.
Hi basement barean , how much did it cost to have surveillance put in your attic if you dont mind me asking ? Im having a rat (s) getting into my attic , dont know how , theyve never bothered before and ive lived here 30 years . I've had poison put down a couple of weeks back but I'm sure I still here movement even though it's quiet movement . They used to make a ruckus but gone almost into stealth mode . I'm scared to go up there to set a trap , I'm 60yr old nan on her own . Please could you advise , thankyou so much .
I'd expect fear out of a trapped animal, but he seems more angry than scared. There's something unnerving about the way he looks you right in the eyes while chirping and chuffing and squeaking. He seems to be saying, "Open this trap or I will END you, you #&@#!"
There was another male that was twice this size, he appears in the first still images in this video. Smart doesn't even begin to describe him and he would go straight at you! He would sit and watch others go into the traps and then just go on his way. Little furry nightmares is what they are.
Ok so my home has had some of these and they are terrifying my fiancé. I killed two with Victor snaps using slim Jim’s. But I have four in my basement and not a single rat will touch. Maybe I should try the gummy? And also there’s one upstairs in our room should I set a cage trap or something?? Please help
In my opinion, you should over do it as soon as possible. Set as many traps as you can and leave them setup. Rats have new object fear, they avoid new things so it's a game of patience. They are also extremely smart, and the old rats are often very hard to trap/kill. Please watch my video about my Box of Certain Death. I no longer attempt to catch them live and have shifted to kill traps. Make a rat-sized version of this trap and you'll get them! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uUfLsh-8aL0.html
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I saw a documentary about a russian guy who was a pest controller. He used to bait the rats with grain every night for weeks until they would jump out and follow him while he spread it around. Then after a couple of weeks he said even the older rats would eat it (apparently they will allow the young rats to eat it for a while until it proved safe). Then he would mix the grain with cement power or something quite similar and they would happily eat it and die, right down to the oldest or what he called ‘king rats’.
Those old rats are very hard to catch, for the reasons you just mentioned, they observe others first and most often completely avoid anything new... I spend six months collecting a single extremely smart rat. HUGE by the way... crafty is also a good description.
Mix powdered sugar into grain or bird seed. Replenish this as needed for a few months. Once they are cleaning it up every day, then add plaster-of-paris. That will become a brick inside the rat and it will die.
I also have Norway Rats..and another larger type folks around here call Wharf Rats (we are near the ocean). I don't keep chickens but they tear the hell out of my garden. I use 2 electronic shock traps and one live trap similar to yours. For the live ones, I toss the cage in a garbage bag along with a rag soaked in starter fluid (ether) then twist the bag shut. This kills them quickly and humanely. My best bait is pine nuts, but I will give your fruities a try.
Wow ! That was scary ! That roaring/howling noise at the end is horrible/frightening/terrifying. I never knew they could make such a noise 😱. I hope to never ever hear it. I've heard them squeal outside in people's back gardens before now, presumably when caught by another predator. We have foxes in our area. I don't like to hear them in distress though. I had to deal with some a few years ago. They had gotten into the terrace block through a hole in the neighbours' wall. They show far too much grr-rat-he-chewed !!! Much as I respect them, they had to go. So I used a cage trap baited with dry cat food to remove them. Some of the other neighbours used poison, some used snap traps. I think we got rid of about a dozen between us. ☹️ .
I think long, low "howling" sound was the same high-pitched "screech" distress-call footage from the beginning, but in slow-motion, so it sounds like a horror movie, which content creator *@Frederick Dunn* alludes to in the text. Maybe he can confirm that.
Bait with gummi bears? And rats seem to prefer apple flavored fruit chews over orange or cherry? Years ago, I was given a pet rat (she attacked the 5' ball python when she was fed to that snake and that snake was afraid of the young rat) and that rat loved pizza the most of all. If she smelled pizza in the house, she would go nuts, climbing to the roof of her big cage and shaking it violently until I gave her some. Amazingly, rats are quickly tame and are easy to house-break. If they chatter their teeth, put them back in their cage to go potty. They are short-lived, though. Guinea pigs make for better rodent pets, IMHO.
We have an empty one-acre lot adjacent to ours which is more 'habitat' than anything else. We live at the foot of the Huachuca Mountains on what is essentially a nature preserve. I noticed mouse and rat activity and purchase live traps for both. I eventually captured 26 rats over a two-month period. The first one I put into a standard Gerbil cage to study it. I positively identified the species as "Norway Rats." I was impressed with how clean and non-aggressive they were. I kept each capture for a number of days to ensure they had plenty of food and water, then set them free at an isolated spot on the Preserve. I'm certain predation will take some, but at least now they won't be chewing on our house. I did the same for the mice. NOTE: I NEVER witnessed ANY aggression or biting behavior (as that seen in the video above with a captured rat). I could actually pick them up (carefully) to examine them. And these were WILD animals, not someone's pet that was turned loose. I spoke with personnel at our local PetSmart - they carry breeder stock Norway Rats! And all for the same reasons I witnessed - clean and well behaved! John
I had a live trap when I was a child and almost universally every field mouse we released was killed by an owl or other bird of prey the very same day, with the feet and tail left on a rock nearby.
Snap traps work. Just study and learn Rat routines and behavior. First, paint the traps an earth tone color - dark green or brown, if outdoors. Place the traps on the Rat run/trail. Rats grab at the bait and run off to eat it in a safe place. So secure it to the traps bait spike tightly. A square inch block of cheddar cheese works perfectly. Rat snoops around, makes a grab at the cheese - POW!
I caught a big ass rat like this in a water trap. It took months for him to go in. Started out with a bunch of smaller rats. They were using my carport as a ''rat super-highway", as I liked to call it. I observed them for days, sitting under my carport and smoking. I identified the mother rat, and realized she had babies that were about old enough to go out on their own. I put bricks and metal over their main points of entry into my shed, and some broken mirror shards to throw their perception off and drive them into a panic. I shot the mother rat down at the main part of the rat highway. She was leading her young to the suet bird feeders I had hanging off the carport. I designed baffles for the suet feeders that were clear, and had a ziptie counterbalance point so they'd feel it was stable, and when they walked on it the cable tie would slip and throw them to the concrete below. Worked well with the youngsters, though they learned quickly of the baffle trick and started going to the one feeder with no baffle. I'd sit out there with my air rifle, waiting for them to peek over the beam and descend onto the feeder, and pick them off one-by-one. After that bit of fun, I decided to scare them into my shed (where they were living) and re-bait the bucket trap. I caught a number of small and medium sized rats. At one point I had 5 of them floating around in there, chewing eachother apart trying to escape. The day I trapped the king rat was a triumphant one, and I shot him in the head while he swam around in the bucket screaming and squealing like this. I've had very few problems since then, and I rarely see them (or any evidence of them). I know they're gone (or at least nearly gone) because the damage they caused is nearly gone. I did the same thing with squirrels, as they were raiding my songbird nests and chewing the heads off the babies. I was lucky to find a big pregnant (or just had babies) mother squirrel sitting up on my wren roost. Squirrels around here have lost their fear of humans, and she actually lunged and tried to bite when I went to scare her away from the baby birds. Went in the house, grabbed my rifle, and put some stainless steel in her neck. She flailed for a while, looking at me with a mean glare in her eyes. She died shortly thereafter. All in all, I've killed nearly 50 rodents in many different ways. In the beginning, it was hell... but I started having fun with it when I began watching them and memorizing their habits and movements. Now that I've killed them all, my birds are happy and I haven't had any more problems. I never left food around either, but they still infested for shelter and those few times they'd get INTO my house, they'd destroy food no matter what container I put it in. They were pushed off a vacant lot next to my property when it was developed and an event center was built.
Given enough time, they could. They can even chew holes through concrete. Certainly, they need to get a grip on whatever it is and have to work it over a period of days, weeks, and months if they really want something on the other side of a barrier. "Anything" may be a stretch, but they are remarkably destructive.
In my neighborhood, these rats come out in broad daylight. Lots of bird feeders in neighboring yards keeps them busy most hours of the daylight. Then many seem to be out at night. Thanks for the tips. I was catching them in similar trap for almost a week straight, but then they stopped entering. I also kept moving the traps. That was a mistake I guess.
the new neighbors tore down the crap part of their house next door and cleaned up a ton of garbage,, and all the rats came over to my place,,, I caught 28 rats in 4 days (I would hear the trap snap and immediately throw the dead in the back part of my yard,, and now a little coyote, that must have loved the gourmet dinner, now roams my place catching what it can outside while I cover the inside and keep leaving carcasses for it's breakfast treat) Thanks for this vid cuz now I can even tell the difference between the packrat's squeak vs the norwegian rat's squeak.. packrats are a lot quieter and they aren't brave at all.. and their ears are a lot bigger,, and the norwegian rat is a LOT bigger.. Also, while the n. rats were overrunning my place, they were catching and eating the little bunnies and I found a graveyard stash of skulls and bones.. I really hate the Norwegian wood rat,, they're horrible...
The Norway Rats are furry nightmares and you're right about the rabbit attacks! They coordinate group attacks on rabbit nests and are extremely smart which is how and why they make it anywhere. Glad your neighbor's property is being taken care of and also glad you are able to handle the influx!
We’ve paid someone to set traps but the bugger has been avoiding them for a couple months already, think we will try the fruit chews! Thanks for posting
Rats are no joke... the key is to leave everything in place long enough for them to accept that they are there. Anything new is avoided for a very long time.
Have you tried the baking soda mixed with Jiffy cornbread mix, 50/50? Leave in a covered container from the dollar store and cut a hole in the side for them to get to it if outside so rain doesn't ruin it. They eat the baking soda and they cannot burp or fart, so they die. The baking soda mixes with their stomach acid like those volcano experiments kids do in school with baking soda and vinegar. It doesn't hurt other animals who prey on dead rats to eat them. Put these where you think they are. There are many videos on youtube about this procedure. Good luck.
I absolutely hate rats, I would much rather have a king snake, black snake in my yard. I do not live trap rats, I use two different traps, the best one is the Tom-Cat Snap Trap, easy to set and very effective. the Victor spring snap trap works well, but a smart rat can trip the trap without getting caught. Most of my rats are woodrats, (commonly called pack rats) they live most in the trees. Yes, I have study rats a lot. They carry the hantavirus and fleas. I keep my game camera set nightly
@@FrederickDunn , I love watching rats being exterminated and any information about them. Your video is one of the best I watched recently. I'm in process of collecting my night vision equipment to shoot rats with my airgun.couple of years ago I catch a family of rats under my backyard deck but this process was too long and too many pounds the bacon.
@@ziggy5509 The gloves are OFF when it comes to wild rats. I've watched some of the air gun shooting videos and at times, when I had a particularly treacherous large rat around, I almost put together the ultimate night shooting system for myself and somehow when it comes to rats, $1,200.00 for a shooting rig suddenly feels reasonable. Safe shooting and happy hunting Ziggy! Go get them!
nice. the slowed down rat scream is genius. yeah they do make a racket, there is a similar vid on my channel. i caught a few young ones in the garden this year in a live trap, two medium sized ones but only ever one adult. the adults esp are v hard to catch. although i think brown rats are one of the most interesting animals the fact is, they can cause mayhem and horror if they get into a house. even fires, potentially. in the garden they were destroying all the birds nests in the hedges. there were hardly any baby robins or blackbirds this year because of this rat boom. but i am at war with house rat atm. it or they have infiltrated my house walls, loft and now the floors. i can here it now loping around in the loft above my bedroom. it /they will not touch my baited traps and i have looked everywhere for an access point, without luck, so he has me beaten so far. i call this one a king rat....a big old rat that is just too clever wiley to catch. today i will look again to see if i can find his way in, but it seems futile. if i get him he is going to be fed to my neighbours two border terriers like the others ive caught which seems cruel but is near instant death. we give them a head start which varies with size of the rat. the small ones only get a few meters, but the big adult one i caught cleared about 30 meters before the dogs got it and ripped it in two. at least its a pretty quick death and they do have a small chance of getting away. its a bit cruel i gues but what can you do. i could shoot them with air rifle but its not necessarily a cleaner kill. and the dogs love it lol
They are a worthy foe... and you're right, the older individuals are astoundingly resourceful and not easily trapped. I spent a good three months last winter, going after one large male and when I finally did get him, it was strange not to have that challenge anymore...
We have been fighting a war against Norway rats for eight long months with our chicken coop/run. Our coop is four feet off the ground and they don’t get inside there, but they have been breaching the 10x16 run despite our pouring a concrete floor as well as surrounding the building with a concrete perimeter. They squeeze into tiny openings between hardware cloth and our roofline...even pushing out our finishing nails to make their way in. I have our chickens feed all locked down in galvanized feeders and scoop up any scattered seeds every night in an attempt to starve/deter the nasty rodents. We have spent over $600 on traps, including a custom built cage trap, but we only caught a handful in that one. I bought owl decoys that screech and have glowing eyes that turn on based on movement inside and around the run, but they don’t seem to mind them. We don’t use poison because of our dogs who roam around the yard. We are now trying the Goodnature A24 CO2 rat killer and have only had two rats fell victim😒
If everything else fails, go check Shawn Woods' channel here, he's got some very interesting and effective traps, 2 of which I will copy and make some modifications, like the Mascall trap and the Atomic barbie trap I found in his videos, there's also the balancing floor trap, forgot what it's called but super effective it seems, just need modifications for bigger rats the size of kittens in my yard...
I can vouch for them eating anything I once had some calmease ( for keeping a horse calm) it was a big tube they ate the whole thing I had the calmest rats.🤣🤣
Yep they jump about 1 metre climb brick walls and trees, and yes very smart. Most cars just crap themselves when they meet one, l have a trail camera and saw a cat run backwards when it came face to face, a Fenn 4 trap snaps them good but the usual mice/rat traps they laugh at.
I know that you are aware of the Mink Man, since I was your comments on his YT channel! 😂 Have you ever used anything like his methods? What about ratting dogs? Thanks for the great video, very informative and interesting, although also scary!
Oh absolutely, I love that guy and his trained minks. He could make a lot of money in my neck of the woods by clearing out woodchuck dens. I no longer have rats, but I think my next dogs will be Yorkshire Terriers as they are originally produced as proficient rat and mouse hunters. I could use them for sure.
Do you have a website? I only have about 8 000 questions about feed, when to feed what, medications and illness. I am trying to do all the homework well before getting the babies next spring.
I remember as a kid walking to the kitchen seeing like 4 big gray balls on top of the garbage can an one of them turning around and hissing at me and me turning rite back to my room.
I give them to the wildlife center where they rehab birds of prey and mammals that need rats and mice. They don't want me to mention them since some animal rights groups give them a very hard time about that.
Rats & mice cant get in a trap quick enough - but it is sad listening to it with its little squeeks.... wondering what's going on, what is this thing I can't get out of, are my babies going to be ok without me, I'll just have a bite of this food, oh crap no, I'm not hungry, am I going to die, are they going to take me out to the boonies where a coyote will eat me??? {{{eeewwww}}} get that outta my head when you see pee and droppings and chewed up everything!!
It's funny how despite everything going on they still have time to eat it's like what people do when they are nervous they eat. Anyway we have a baby Norway that we raised from a pinky put it on my RU-vid she's getting older now but her mother acted the same way in and our haveaheart trap
I often made fun of my sons when they started fighting... "eat a sandwich and diffuse that aggression!".. (';').. it cracked them up, but it's true, eating or sipping something has an interesting psychological impact.
Always tuck in your pant legs or wrap them in duct tape. I learned that when we were clearing them out from under livestock feeders in Nodaway County Missouri many years ago. The ranch hands were all tucking their pants in their cowboy boots and when I asked why they were doing that, they looked at each other like I was an idiot. (';')
Do they dig huge holes under your coop? I have something digging a mess of holes all under coop, never see during daytime, not a skunk, was active all winter so not a chipmunk. Have a trap set for weeks haven't caught it. New holes every night. ????
+JeanLucLittleBear All of my coop structures are up off the ground on supports, so they don't move in under coops. They will dig under concrete slabs also. To see if they are around, you really need to set up some motion activated game cameras and then you will be certain as to what it moving around and digging holes. They can even move into vole holes and eat the voles or meadow mice. Also fire wood piles. I monitor my property with game cameras, so I know there is just one rat. They also visit bird feeders if you have those.
How dare you keep me in this cage I'll bring my whole family to deal with you at once!!..squeak squeak who the hell do you think you are!! Jumps ...and get that stick out my face whimpers... squeak... choose gummy O.o
Mine is too smart 🤦🏻♂️😓 I cannot catch him to save my life... he isn’t scared of the cats or the German shepherd, I know he’s inside when the dog starts barking and the cats don’t care 🤦🏻♂️ he still goes for food I removed all the rabbit food I have and put them in bins. And used your truck no luck yet been about 2 weeks Any other suggestions for me lol?
If that trap has only been out there for two weeks, leave it in place and don't change it. Smarter older rats are afraid of new objects and you need to leave it there. Look at my A24 video and you'll see how that works. I had one really elusive large male... eventually, I used motion activated cameras to learn his routine and then used a female rate to lure him in. The scary part was that he went to her in attack mode rather than attraction. They are territorial. I wish you the best of luck.
Ugh I hate rats and mice. We live in a wooded area with lots of squirrels and not once have I ever seen a squirrel in our attic. Squirrels are like cool rats to me.
@@FrederickDunn lmao your reply is hilarious. That's not what I was implying at all lol I was simply cringing at the metal on metal contact of the trap on the table saw. I imagined it gouging the surface and that's where I was going with my comment lol
Frederick Dunn What do you mean? I am me. I subscribed because I am starting my own chickens next year. Ive had other farm animals but never chickens. I am in the process of converting 2 of my old horse stalls into two coops. I have a third stall available if I want to breed any of the chickens. I need advice, etc
Aw he’s having a panic attack. I’ve caught them too. They look right into my eyes like “ what are you going to do with me???” I release them near the lake far from homes, and let Mother Nature take over.
@@FrederickDunn Yeah my situation has nothing to do with infestations. I should remove my bleeding heart commentary. But if I did have an infestation I sure wouldn’t fumigate.
Interesting that you bring that up Geezle, we did run screws up through the bottom of the traps so the bar comes down between them. The older smarter "target" rats avoided any sharp metal modified traps. Younger rats, no problem, it's the older group that always has a way around snap traps. We also have to consider that an animal other than a rat could be injured, so caution with modifications.
