Humane way to kill the rats? Let nature take it's course. I would say you could relocate the trap with a rat to one of these locations...and in two months have a Eruo mount.

BTW... when you drown them you gotta tape the locks in place. Sorry I woulda warned you about that bit earlier if I'd been following this thread.

Speaking of that, and your apparent latest catch. Ask my dad what it's like having a squirrel get out of said trap during an attempted drowning and run up your arm!

Are we going to start a new thread since shifty caught a squirrel or are we just going to continue to piggy back on the rat thread?

Take the rat to Austin and release him....

quote:

---

Are we going to start a new thread since shifty caught a squirrel or are we just going to continue to piggy back on the rat thread?

---

Aren't squirrels just slightly larger rats with a bushy tail?

~ 3 squirrels, cut up (All hair and shot removed.)
~ 1 egg
~ 2 cups plain flour
~ 3/4 cup broth
~ 1 teaspoon salt
~ salt and pepper
Boil squirrels in four quarts of water until tender. Remove squirrels from broth, let cool, then remove meat from bones. Set aside.

In large bowl, mix flour, egg and one teaspoon of salt with 3/4 cup of broth and roll into ball.

Strain the broth to remove any stray shot then resume boil. Return meat to boiling broth.

On a floured cutting board, use rolling pin to roll the dough ball to a thickness of 1/16 inch. Cut into 1-inch wide strips and drop strips one at a time into the boiling broth. Gently shake pot after last dumpling is added to prevent sticking.

Cook approximately 10-15 minutes until dumplings are tender. Salt and pepper to taste.

Serve and Enjoy!

Take to your deceased Aunt's basement. Lock it's head to a column with a bicycle lock.

Feed it baloney sandwiches for several days (cut the crust off).

Develop stockholm syndrome after discussing his past each evening.

After several days, approach him with key to unlock him. When he tries to bite you, pull back on bicycle lock with all your might until his eyeballs pop out.

Melt his body in rubber tub filled with sulphuric acid Important: do not use upstairs bathtub.

You will fill minimal guilt this way and have justification for your dirty deed.

Bury neck deep in yard then run over it with lawn mower.


Keep this thread alive!

quote:

---

(cut the crust off)

---

I see Earl watches breaking bad.

Second time the trap has been set, the peanut butter has been licked clean, and the trap is empty.

It may be something that is so large that the gates can't come down (like a possum). Someone send me a game cam to borrow.

Earl, I like your style. Of course, you could just get your brother-in-law to shoot him outside a safe house in Mexico....nah, I like the car exhaust/garbage bag option the best.

I would recommend using nitrogen, helium or CO2 (there are many options, but these are safe and available). If you use CO2, however, you need use infuse the gas into whatever cage you have at a fairly slow rate to keep the rat from freaking out.

I thought about using my Co2 from my keg setup, but man, seemed like a waste of Co2. Plus not entirely appealing to have my tubes anywhere near the rat. If I'm going to do the gas chamber, I think the tailpipe thing is just as humane.

seems like you're going the route of dehydration and starving him to death....that's a horrible way to die.

I'm doing no such thing. It doesn't take all that much for a rat to die from the elements. For example, my father caught one during the winter months in a live trap at night, and by the morning it had died of cold exposure. And it wasn't all that cold. Hope I can get a bait station in the next day or two. One thing this thread should teach a person--it aint worth jackin with a live trap if you plan to kill the suckers.

quote:

---

One thing common sense should teach a person--it aint worth jackin with a live trap if you plan to kill the suckers.

---

FIFY

Cow mangler 5000.

Take Rat into Kitchen
Stick it in the freezer
Thaw it during Football season
Cook over open fire at LSU tailgate
Profit

quote:

---

Call Jerry Clower

---

Underrated post!

quote:

---

Sounds like you need to invest in a .22 rifle and a suppressor.

---

quote:

---

quote:
I would go for cervical dislocation.

---

quote:

---

please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck please be talking about the neck

---

LMAO for about 5 minutes. Eyes still watering.

[This message has been edited by aggie_2001_2005 (edited 6/24/2012 6:07p).]

quote:

---

Take to your deceased Aunt's basement. Lock it's head to a column with a bicycle lock.

Feed it baloney sandwiches for several days (cut the crust off).

Develop stockholm syndrome after discussing his past each evening.

After several days, approach him with key to unlock him. When he tries to bite you, pull back on bicycle lock with all your might until his eyeballs pop out.

Melt his body in rubber tub filled with sulphuric acid Important: do not use upstairs bathtub.

You will fill minimal guilt this way and have justification for your dirty deed.

---

Step 1. Find a classroom and equip all of the desk with trail cams facing towards the ceiling as well as video cameras to film the madness

Step 2. Insert at least 10 smoking hot Catholic school girls (above the age of 18 of course) all wearing plaid skirts into classroom.

Step 3. Release rat into classroom close door (make sure door is sealed so rat does not escape)

Step 4. Wait 5 minutes to get some good footage and trail cam pictures.

Step 5. Enter classroom to the theme of Popeye, down a can of spinach, kill rat with meat cleaver.

Step 6. Comfort frightened hotties

Step 7.Post trail cam pics to the OB under the thread title "more trail cam Pics"

Step 8. Give video footage to Crittercam to make entertaining .gifs for posting into same thread

End Result:
Rat wins because he fulfilled every rats dream of chasing hotties onto school desks, OB wins with trail cam pics and video footage, hotties win because you saved them, and you win because...do I really have to elaborate why you win?

quote:

---

Take to your deceased Aunt's basement. Lock it's head to a column with a bicycle lock.

Feed it baloney sandwiches for several days (cut the crust off).

Develop stockholm syndrome after discussing his past each evening.

After several days, approach him with key to unlock him. When he tries to bite you, pull back on bicycle lock with all your might until his eyeballs pop out.

Melt his body in rubber tub filled with sulphuric acid Important: do not use upstairs bathtub.

You will fill minimal guilt this way and have justification for your dirty deed.

---

Can't.Stop.Laughing.

If he looks dead he is not..

If you couldn't kill the first one, good luck with this one.

holy hell, he smelled terrible. How does anyone eat these things?

I'm pretty sure this guy or one of his cousins has been been responsible for stealing all my bait, setting the trap off, but not actually getting caught (because they are big enough to keep the trap open while they eat).

Only folks in Louisiana would eat the foulest of neighborhood beasts, aka the other white meat.

When I was in high school we used to go out to the ag barn at night(when they had the pigs for ffa out there), flip on the lights and beat em to death with 2" poly pipe. I went all josh Hamilton once and sent one about 40 yards as it was running down a fence line.

In college, we had a dog get a sticky trap stuck to her face with a live mouse on it.... it was pretty awesome....