Thread: Homemade rat traps for rat BBQ

I got a pretty significant rat problem on the palm land. I don't want to use poison and my dumb Burmese workers have killed off the cobras who eat rats.

Any way I saw this on utube the bucket trap;



But what they bait it with is peanut butter which isn't readily available. Any other ideas for bait.

How do the catch rats in Issan? Isn't bbq's rat a staple there?
I figure I could try some bbq rat as well. I ate some big rat in Belize years ago, wasn't too bad at all.
With spicy tamarind sauce I reckon bbq'd rat could be mighty good!


Your thoughts and rat experiences are requested.
I'm now especially concerned because I'm seeing the rats going after my newly planted bamboo.

A 40 baht bag of peeled (and then roasted) peanuts, a tablespoon of vegetable oil and a blender will make you peanut butter in less than 15 minutes.



A bit of deep fried pork belly is another magnet.

^ yep. That's how I make my peanut butter (too good for rats )

Rice field rats are supposed to be good. I'd have to have no other options and not eaten for a week before I could face one though.

Just buy the rat cage traps, the burmese can feast on them then.

I gotta agree with "Yasojack" on this one..
Those snap door cage traps are GREAT.

OFF-TOPIC;
I had a terrible squirrel problem here in my yard in Bangkok. I mean there were at least 50 living in the trees around my place. They were in-breeding to the extent that I was getting piebald ones and even one albino baby which sadly a cat got. .. I shot a few with a wrist rocket sling shot and had the somtam lady grill some up for me, even had one person make Green Curry Squirrel (which wasn't too bad). Still, there was no way I was gonna eat my way thru that many squirrels..

I bought a few of those metal cage traps, fastened them to long bamboo poles, baited 'em with those small sweet bananas and hung 'em up in the trees. I caught all the squirrels I wanted to catch. I mean I really "thinned out the herd".

A good thai friend who helped me catch 'em wanted them. So we ended up putting 30+ squirrels in a big tarp covered rabbit cage and lugging 'em up to a forest near his farm in Yasothon province. Before we let 'em go we met with the villagers who said they hadn't seen squirrels around those parts in years. We got the head man to agree and tell the villagers NOT go wipe 'em all out right off the bat.

Earlier this year, when I went up there, you could see and hear squirrels in the nearby forest. It would appear that the "bangkok/yasothon squirrel relocation project" worked.

Now I have no idea how many laws I broke by live trapping and relocating squirrels to an un-squirrelly area. Still I don't have much of a squirrel problem

This is a lucky squirrel ,