Missing rat trap

[Screwby]

Originally Posted by Lake Huron

That's good news! Good thing it was found before it really started to get nad smelling.
Btw, assuming you were using a snap trap, how did it get snapped in the trap and still be able to crawl away?

Because rats are hard core. I’ve heard of guys running drywall screws up through the bottom of the traps so the points stick an inch or so out through the floor of the trap. Then when the rat gets snapped in the trap it drives the screw points into the body as well. It’s guerrilla warfare

[Colorado]

Originally Posted by KevTev

Well, I sitting here at my local RV repair shop (not Jayco - they are too far away), I brought my Alante 32N in this morning for them to look for the missing rat trap. After going over all the checks I had made they started by looking where I couldn’t - it only took 1 hour.

The rat had tried to exit along a cable bundle that goes through the floor of the sofa/kitchen slide. He was out the hole but the attached trap had kept him from leaving. He was under the pot drawer (that’s under the stove/oven).

They are disassembling the cabinet to remove him and seal the hole.

THE END

So are you gonna have the rat mounted...would be a heck of a conversation piece.

[Chet & Marie]

Glad to hear you found him. The only good rat is a dead rat.

[KevTev]

Just so everyone knows, the rat was a bit messy so the rat and trap were both filed in the “circular file”

[Hollander Mutthaulers]

Originally Posted by Chet & Marie

Glad to hear you found him. The only good rat is a dead rat.

They have a bad rap alright, but they perform a good cleanup service too.
And my "Ratman" got me good grades in experimental psych 50 years ago.
And my daughter (a veterinarian) and husband have had 11 rats over the years.
But they were friendly, affectionate, funny and definitely not "sewer rats".