Vanity Do the Sonar Rat Repellant Devices...

Dec 12 2007 | Global2010

[Global2010]

I have a serious question.

We live on a bay on the Oregon Coast and this time of year the rats want in really bad.

I can D Con in the Garage because I can hide it behind the tool bench where they follow along the wall.

I cannot D Con around the house because we have 3 Labs and sometimes the other Labs in the area sneak away and come visit our home ( I don't encourage them).

So I am looking at these plug in the wall sonar rat repellants.

Do they work? Can I plug them inside next to the doors and have them be effective?

The suckers come every year when it gets cold and if I don't kill them they knaw at the door frame.

I had one come up one year in the day and as my Lab was standing over his bone barking to the nieghbor Lab up the way the dirty rat came up under him and stole his bone. I kid you not. Brazen lil' sucker.

I hate rats.

They have been known to get into homes here while folks are gone for the winter and literally destroying the interior.

[driftdiver]

“Yeah, I guess it all comes down to how badly you wish to get rid of your rat problem.”

Rats can do $40 of damage very quickly.

[Global2010]

Bump to your post.

I am a 10 percent bleach spray bottle believer myself.

Those rats are smart but mean little buggers.

I wonder with the ice storms in the midwest how invasive their rats are right now.

And with the flooding/mudslides here in Oregon I see the folks on the news stories knocking out sheet rock to repair before mold sets in and all I can think is the rats I bet are moving in while ya’ll repair them walls.

Our local news is calling all the national bad weather “of Biblical preportions”.

That is why I like KATU they don’t buy into the Al Gore Mother Earth bull crap.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Kindred spirit here w/the bleach spray!!! My husband says he feels he is living thru a thyphoid epidemic with my sanitizing efforts. All our boxed and bagged food gets placed in Tupperware or Rubbermaid containers.

I saw the Oregon mudslides on the news...yikes. Hope they are not near you! Be safe!

PaMom

[Global2010]

Thanks Grammy.

[cweese]

Indeed. That’s why the cost of this product seemed more than reasonable to me, especially with the results I get.

[Roses0508]

Get a rat hunting cat or two. Go to the humane society (or some rescue society or whatever they call them) and find a cat that has been (i) allowed outdoors (opportunity to hone its hunting instincts; and (ii) grown up around dogs and other cats.

I’ve had Baxter about a year now, he’s even taught the squirrels to stay in the trees (no more digging up lily bulbs). He’s taken care of the rodent population, even the moles that were plowing up the yard.

To make it even better - he’s a good people cat, an asset indoors as well.

[EdReform]

+1 on the JRT

[Global2010]

I have a full house with these guys.

The Cold Nose Crew
Address:http://community-2.webtv.net/CGLangleysHunter/TheColdNoseCrew/

[Hyzenthlay]

I’d recommend against the ultrasonic rat repeller things because although they use sound frequencies that are undetectable to the adults that develop them, kids, teenagers, and other animals can hear them, so they might drive your dogs a bit crazy too.

[Global2010]

Thanks I wondered about that.

And I don’t want to repel the wild bunnies, squirrels, birds or deer.

[Ditter]

You have 4 JRT’s? That is a houseful. We have 4 dogs but one is a Black Mouth Cur.

[EdReform]

Nope, just one. And that’s enough!

[Ditter]

You’re no fun.