Product tested and proven to work by multiple members of the friendly crew here at the Snohomish and Monroe Co-Op, the Ratinator is a safe way to effectively control invading rat populations. Ratinator is a live trap and works without using any poisons that could harm livestock or wildlife.
Here’s the game:
- Ratinator has two doors: a back door and a see-saw door.
- Load the trap with whatever rats are used to eating: chicken food, grains, dog food, whatever the rats have been eating regularly. Don’t get too fancy, give them something they’re used to.
- Set the back door open. This way rats go in and out of Ratinator, eating the food, and making themselves feel comfortable. Give your visitors 3 or 4 days to get used to being in and around the trap.
- After a couple of days, once all the food is gone, you know that the rats have become comfortable with the Ratinator.
- Close up the back door, and reload the trap with food. Now the rats can only get in the see-saw door, and they can’t get out again. Over and over again, the rats will go in, and get trapped.
- The trap comes with a water tray just a little deeper than the trap, for dispatching its catch.
- Ratinator consistently catches 8, 12, up to 21 rats a night. It even catches the large, breeding ones, not just the little young ones.
- Reuse the Ratinator over and over again, without the worry of harming your livestock or wildlife.
A few tips from experienced users:
- Put Ratinator on a sheet of plywood. Rats are expert diggers. Sometimes they’ll come up from underneath to steal the food you’ve loaded in the trap.
- Place a brick on top of Ratinator to help keep the trap in place, just in case you catch so many that they move the trap.
- Be patient. Play the game. Give the rats plenty of time (up to 3-4 days) to get comfortable eating out of the open trap before closing the back door. If you set the trap too soon, you won’t catch anything.
- Ratinator comes with a tray that is about an inch deeper than the wire trap. On a level surface, till the tray with water and submerge the trap with the rats trapped inside. There are handles on top of the cage to make it easy to carry, and to drop into the water-filled tray.
Don’t let rats ruin your day. Shop the Snohomish and Monroe Co-Op to find everything you need to control rodent populations, and pick up your Ratinator today.
