Snake is good .
The bigger the better.
Get yourself carpet python.
Just watch your dog ( unless Doberman at least) .
I had similar problem with nature>Haven,t had rodents because had a brown snake living in the rocks.So bought 3 geese to get rid of snakes.Snakes gone.
Fox ate all geese. Now I have mice and rats all around. PS.
One for sure. electronic repellent = urban legend= waste of money.
bought one of those Ultrasonic repelant , open the box to realize the whole electronics inside was blue LED light ,
So the only way to make them working is to smash them hard on the mouse had.
Select to expand quoteHaircut said..nebbian said..
Not sure about rats, but these ones are dynamite on mice:
I get them from woolies. Bait with a little peanut butter. Excellent design, they really are a better mouse trap.
Good luck with the rats.
I've had a few of these ones and generally catch the mouse in some way, but I've had a quite a few catch the mouse's leg or not killed it instantly, and I think they tend to suffer for a bit. found one that had crawled right across the camper floor with it attached
A MOUSE OR A CAT !? which are you talking about Alsatians do that to cats !
Select to expand quoteMastbender said..
Of course I'm assuming that you can still buy pellet rifles in Oz.
yep - still available, but since the paperwork and licensing fees are practically the same as that for a .22, most don't bother with air rifles!
and those penetrator pills sound like the promethius ones I use - nylon skirt / zinc or alloy body??
have been known to drop many rabbits, bulk parrots and pigeons, a few cats, and a fox 
Select to expand quotenicephotog said..Haircut said..nebbian said..
Not sure about rats, but these ones are dynamite on mice:
I get them from woolies. Bait with a little peanut butter. Excellent design, they really are a better mouse trap.
Good luck with the rats.
I've had a few of these ones and generally catch the mouse in some way, but I've had a quite a few catch the mouse's leg or not killed it instantly, and I think they tend to suffer for a bit. found one that had crawled right across the camper floor with it attached
A MOUSE OR A CAT !? which are you talking about Alsatians do that to cats !
ive never had a german shephard catch a mouse. it probably needs a slightly stiffer spring, but the way it sets and empties is great
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oh, the trap or the alsation needs a stiffer spring you ask? 
I've never found anything great about the way Alsatians "empty", but they do eat both cats and mice and rats, they are all a sort of "crunchy", probably the best most natural at it are Dingoes.
These aren't too bad but i don't know if they are any good as mousers and ratters.
As an ex combat engineer we
spent a bit of time prodding for mines, was a painstaking task,
Now these giant pouch rats do a very effective job,
There about the size of a domestic cat, so you'd need bulk ratsack
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I lived in Egypt for a number of years and they have huge rats. These types of traps were brilliant.
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Ive used one of these. Caught most of em. Until Sumo rat appeared. It was big enough to be fully inside the trap but with hindquarters hanging out. It woke us all up trying to jump around the room inside the trap. Left it in the room til morning. It had escaped. Ate thru the bottom of the bedroom door, the carpet n into the tackstrip just to escape!!! Body about as big as a 1.25litre bottle. This thing took some trapping. Ended up hunting it down with a knife when we had it cornered. Job done.
I have a rat problem.
Going to try the deb instant mashed potato this weekend and see if it works.
Theory is they each too much Deb, find water, drink then their guts explode from the expanding potato. Sounds kinda plausible. Worst case I'll have a bloated rat to deal with.
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I have a rat problem.
Going to try the deb instant mashed potato this weekend and see if it works.
Theory is they each too much Deb, find water, drink then their guts explode from the expanding potato. Sounds kinda plausible. Worst case I'll have a bloated rat to deal with.
Awesome. Then deep fry it and it's win all round!
Have grapes, passion-fruit and Oranges (and olives), so I know about rats here in valley Hawthorn. Everywhere in Perth has rats this time of the year - warm, good rains and plenty of food.
Apparently they also love mangoes this time of the year.
The sneaky one is living in my roof roof me as I type. I use wax baits, loose baits and traps with peanut butter. This one is cunning. It likes fruit - does not like baits. I remember using one of the cage traps to catch (and release) a possum in East Melbourne a long time ago - reckon they would be good as long as you are will to dispatch said rat - no catch and release.
So now am packing the 1/2 chewed out passion-fruit with pellet baits to kill it. See how this goes .
If it dies in roof, it will dry out pretty quickly. Not like Bryon Bay where a rat in a wall space stank for weeks - had to rip out plasterboard to find it.
Had cats for 20 years - no rats, but also no birds.
