Typically filled with different food sources for the rat and lots of different shiny items. The pounding would always happen just about an hour apart, so right when I finally was starting to fall asleep the pound would happen again. Apparently it is the packrat pounding its tail, which I don’t know why they do it, but it is loud and scary. It literally sounded like a bowling ball was falling from a couple feet up and landing on the pillars.
There is nothing scarier than you being alone in a house and hearing loud banging noises in the ceiling then the scattering of feet. It was the night of no sleep because Sean had a packrat in his walls that he had not killed yet. Over the summer, before Sean and I got married, I spent the night at his house while he was out camping with a friend. The smell is equivalent to the smell of a skunk and it hangs around for a long time even after the rat is long gone! Once a packrat ran through our mud-room and it stunk for weeks! These are not pleasure rodents to have around.īeing quiet is also not a trait of a packrat especially if they are in your walls.
Packrats smell awful!!! Typically the first indication of a packrat is the smell. Packrats also love prunes so if your out of aluminum foil a prune will work too. It has worked every time.įor some reason they do not like carrots and so if you put a carrot in a trap and they are near by, they will actually go get the carrot and move it, because they don’t like the smell… weird. This is why aluminum foil is a perfect way to kill a packrat, we wrap aluminum foil around the middle of a coyote trap and when the packrat tries to run off with the foil they get snapped. If a packrat has an object (food, wood, or bedding items) and they run across something that is better than what they have (such as keys, screws, or anything shinny) they will drop the item they are carrying and pack off the better item. Packrats are notorious for “packing” off items, especially if they are shinny. Coyote traps have worked best for us and so far our best bait has been aluminum foil. Most people will set rat traps in large pipes or buckets so that they cannot jump up out of the trap. You cannot set a normal rat trap and expect the packrat to get killed, when they go for the bait they will grab it and jump up before the trap snaps. Normal rat traps do not work on these critters, because they are extremely smart (for the most part). Here are some interesting facts about these creative rats: It had huge beady eyes and a bushy tail and it was about the size of a small rabbit. My father-in-law had killed a rat and showed it to me. It wasn’t more than a day later when I saw my first packrat. One day my mother-in-law and I were out in the mud room of their house and she said, “Ew, it smells like a rat.” I did smell something, but it smelled like a skunk to me but I had no idea what a rat smelled like, and I was still skeptical that these “packrats” existed. I certainly didn’t believe it either when I first moved to the ranch, but I learned quickly that these animals are real and they are big, smelly, nasty critters. The funny thing is, is that not many people know (or believe) that a packrat is actually an animal a rat! They are native to the western side of the United States, which is why most people in the eastern United States have never heard of them before. Ever heard of a packrat? Most of us associate this name immediately with a person who collects way too much stuff and is unwilling to throw anything away.
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