Comment on Discussion Thread 🍀 Thursday 3 April 2025

• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They’re so fast couldn’t get one :( This one is actually at the place here in Melbs (which I have to leave and head down the coast, but alarm is the problem). I’m really not a fan of poison so plan of a attack is to stop it from getting into the house with a bit of wood under the dishwasher and deal with it on sunday somehow lol.

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Stainless steel wool balls, the thicker coil type, is excellent for stuffing gaps around pipework to keep rodents out. They don’t like to chew on it. The trickery part is to make sure the rat is trapped out of the house, and not in, when steel wool is applied!

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    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      ooh that’s a very good idea thank you for that I’ll go that method.

      And yea, I don’t know whether it’s inside or still under the dishwasher / wherever so that’s a problem heh.

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  • Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If it has black/brown fur and a white tail tip, then might be a rakali - not a rat as such.

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  • StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Good idea! If you’re not interested in poison, I think Bunnings has humane traps that don’t kill the rat. But I’m not sure.

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    • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I made one with a bucket, tp roll on a stick and Pb on the roll. Rodent climbs up tries to get to Pb and falls in the bucket.

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