Rats that regularly find their way to our dwellings are indeed annoying and nasty pests. Unfortunately, they can surmount all the hurdles and gnaw through everything to get into seemingly impenetrable, hard-to-reach places. Moreover, they transfer serious diseases, attack humans and pets, contaminate food and make a mess. Rat control measures involve traditional and modern methods of extermination, such as sealing up the homes, using rat predators, snap traps, poisonous baits, rat zappers, glue boards and others. In all cases, the best option is to start from the removal of mess (where they find their shelter), water and food sources. You can purchase different types of snap traps or make your own homemade rat trap to get rid of coming pests.
Electric rat trap diy
An electric rat trap is a simple device that electrocutes rodents, effectively killing them immediately. A homemade rat trap that is electrified can be used only indoors, out of the reach of children and pets.
First, buy a small live trap. It looks like a wire cage with a loaded door that shuts behind a rat after it enters. In fact, the caught rodent stays alive. However, the aim of our homemade rat trap is to catch and kill at once. Batteries supply current and make it possible to design a rat killer from any commercially available cage.
Second, cover the entire floor of the mesh cage by a piece of metal plate placed on the bottom of the cage. Then, place some solid food for baiting on the metal plate near the back of the trap. It can be a bit of peanut butter, meat, fruit.
Third, attach jumper cables to the metal plate at the back of the cage. The clips on the cables should just barely fit onto the edge of the mesh cage. Set the trapdoor loading the spring as directed on the product label. Place the electric cage rat trap diy in a rodent-infested area.
At last, connect up the jumper cables to the 12V battery. Now, the homemade rat trap with electrified metal plate is ready to electrocute pest rodents instantly.
Homemade rat trap from bottle
You will need a 2-liter soda bottle, barbwire, glue, toothpick and bait (peanut butter, bacon, sunflower seeds). Before making the rat trap diy, put on latex or vynil gloves to avoid leaving human scent. Take a 2-liter soda bottle and cut 2 inches off the top. The opening will be the entrance.
Size the barbwire so that it is exactly the shape and dimensions of the bottle’s opening and cut off the piece. Glue this piece of barbwire over the top opening of the bottle. In practice, the barbwire should replicate a swinging door.
Glue a toothpick across the opening of the bottle. Place the toothpick high enough to stop the barbwire door from swinging outward but low enough for the rat to step over it.
Add peanut butter (one spoon) or some other bait inside the bottle at the uncut end. The bait lures rats and other rodents to the location, inviting pests into the bottle cavity.
At last, the homemade rat trap from bottle can be placed in an infested area. In addition, the caught rat won’t be able to escape once it comes in because the toothpick prevents the barbwire door from swinging outward.
Bucket rat trap diy
To make a homemade rat trap from a bucket, you will also need a box, thin board, long wood plank, water and bait food. Take or buy the buckets of at least two feet in size and fill it half full with cold water.
Inspect your kitchen, attic, basement, garage and yard where rats and other rodents run and detect the most infested areas. Place the buckets with water there.
Then, position boxes of equal height next to the buckets. Place thin wood planks on the boxes and have them overhang into the middle of the buckets. The planks should fall into the buckets easily when a little bit of pressure is applied to the end of it.
On the end of the planks that hang over the buckets, smear a bit of peanut butter to attract rats. Attach longer boards on the other end of the boxes for the rats to crawl up. Rodents are nice climbers and can get to a food source in any place.
Thus, a rat crawls up onto the box, sees the bait and walks the board to it. The rat’s weight causes the board to fall into the water. At last, the rat drowns.
Dispose of the dead rodent using rubber gloves. Moreover, don’t forget to check the buckets and any other homemade rat trap daily.
Electric rat trap dead short circuit ? 12v battery might explode due to dead short circuit , 12v to kill a rat don’t think
Add a old fashion car coil , depending on the coil it ought to jump it to 75,000 or so ! Is that enough ?
This simply won’t work. The whole cage is metal, a plate in the bottom would be shorted to the cage. A 12 volt battery (a 9 volt is shown) won’t do anything. This was just someone’s pipe dream. A total waste of web space.
The battery depicted is a 9 volt battery, not a 12 volt. Either way that’s not enough voltage to kill a rodent. You would need some electronics to get the voltage much higher.
You could use 230 volts AC . That might kill you if you have heart conditions. It will make a stake from that rat!
I saw these on YouTube. Crazy 12v kills them so fast.
Capacitor is needed
Rats stupidly chew on electric wires all the time..dont know how they do it. Instead of dangerous 12v, which i assume is a car battery, why not use a big lantern battery..i used them as a child to ignite model rocket engines. I dont know if they still make ’em.
50v DC will kill a horse if the current is high enough. I would imagine that this would also be enough to kill a rat. The current would only need to be high enough to affect the heart rhythm. Perhaps as little as a couple of amps but more would be better. Since few people can feel less than about 70v a low voltage & fairly high DC should be fairly safe for people.
12 volts will not kill a rodent of any kind. A much higher voltage is needed to produce enough current through the body resistance of the animal in order to electrocute by stopping the heart. A capacitor only stores charge; it does not increase voltage. A capacitor connected in parallel with a 12 volt battery produces . . . 12 volts! For rodent killing purposes bug-zapper type electronics is needed to get to the lethal voltage. There are lower-tech ways to get to a lethal voltage such as the older style auto ignition vibrator coil mentioned earlier.
I’ve never seen such a display of ignorance and half-truths about electricity. The blind leading the blind. 🙄