O.k., I know there must be some people on this forum who raise rats so you might appreciate this story. At my job about a month or so ago, we noticed we had a rat that ate the ketchup packets left over from the lunch table (yuk!) Dog food left overnight on the floor untouched-ketchup was her favorite. I vowed to catch the rat with a live animal trap which I brought in every day and tried various placements throughout the shop with peanut butter, chick-fil-a nuggets, ketchup....nothing. She set the trap off almost every night without getting caught and licked it clean, sometimes ignoring it altogether and chewing a hole in the wall a few feet away!? After my failed attemps for a week and after she chewed through some wires that shut down our time clock, my boss called in a pro.This rat was so big and smart it drank out of the toilet(you could see hair and footprints,) reaked havok on every corner (chewed a wall every night,)and evaded a professional's traps for a week. I always had my live trap set and I hoped to catch her before the lethal traps, but eventually, she got careless and got nabbed by a lethal trap set by the pro (peanut butter.) She was brown and fat and about 8 inches long without the tail. Funny thing is-she NEVER touched the shop dog's water or food which was on the floor over night many of the nights, preferring to drink out of the toilet and eat weird stuff, plastic, ketchup, ect. It's been a week now and no more chewing, so I think she was a loner.

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