Rat ignoring poison bait and traps
Smart rats often bypass commercial bait blocks and glue traps because they recognize new objects or unappealing textures in their environment, leaving homeowners stuck with an active infestation they cannot afford to keep treating. When standard retail options fail on a tight budget, the ongoing presence prevents households from resolving the health risk safely.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using snap traps with bread or peanut butter
- 2Locking food in gnaw-proof tins and metal garbage cans with weights
- 3Using commercial rodenticides like RatX
- 4Setting up plastic snap traps, glue traps, and mint spray
- 5Testing alternative baits like peanut butter, dates, crumbled chocolate chip cookies, bait attractant, and Hershey's kisses
- 6Installing a wifi camera to monitor activity
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“He’s not responding to poison bait or glue traps… wwyd?”source ↗
“It’s been almost two months since we first heard something crawl above us. I setup plastic snap traps, glue traps, mint spray and no success.”source ↗
“It’s smart and avoids the plastic snap traps.”source ↗
“I don’t want to deal with the stench of a dead rodent nor hunt for their corpse through the loose insulation or tight spots in the attic.”source ↗
“Hello everybody, im at my limit here with rats. They showed up about 2 weeks ago, and nothing has worked.”source ↗
“We are dead broke, between bills and groceries we might have 50 bucks to spend between all 4 of us to rid us of this problem.”source ↗
“They continue to ignore it a week out. For killer bait,we have been using RatX but they seem to not even clock that as food, they run right by the throw packs and the bait trays alike.”source ↗
Where this came up
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