Something I've quickly found out here is that the rats are quite abundant. At my work, I bought a six pack of Gatorade and overnight they chewed through the bottles. Also I've began to notice several rat sized holes chewed in the walls.

Does anyone have some good or creative ways to catch rats? Or should I just order a bunch of victor rat traps from minnesota trapline?

I saw a program on Okinawa rats, which are a species of endangered, spiny tail rats, that are protected. You probably are having trouble with the invasive black rats, but I would be careful letting anyone there know you're trapping rats.

Keith

Go get em Dylan-san.
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lol! This is exactly the motivation I needed

You could hire the Pied Piper, but be sure to pay him what you owe him.

Those rats sound like they're quite the pest. I'm glad I didn't have to deal with them when I was at Kadena AFB Dec 1969/Feb 1970. This was before Japan got control. After being on Guam for a year, I had a great time there.

Don't trap them if they look like this.



Keith

Bar bait

I've seen a few of them dead and they don't look like that so I think I'm safe.



I am also on Kadena. I bet things look a little different around here now verses 1970.

55 years is a long time.

My Dad visited there around 1945.

Victor rat traps against the wall so they come in from the sides.

If they look anything like the long tailed rats of Vietnam you need 220 conibears.

Do you have any pictures or stone carvings of what it looked like back then?

Haha

LOL

We had a lot of rats in the first two mines in worked in. They were old coal mines, started in the early 1900’s. We had a couple ways of killing them. We would take a five gallon grease bucket, and stretch a paper grocery bag across the top. Tape it around the lip of the bucket. Cut a big X slip in the paper, and smear it with peanut butter. Inside the bucket …filled half way up with water, and added a can of solvent to it. Lay a couple boards to serve as ramps. Rats would climb the board, fall into the bucket. The solvent fumes killed them quick.

We’d also electrocute them. Hang a piece of 12 gauge wire from the 440 volt DC trolley line. Have the end of the wire hang about 5” above the track rails. Bait the end of the wire with a chunk of Snickers bar. The rat would climb up on the rail, and when he bit into the bait, he grounded out on track he was standing on.

These rats lived in the total darkness of the mine, they couldn’t see. Operated totally by smell and feel from their whiskers.

Paul I was there the same time as you. I was in civilain affaire unit at the hospital so I learn Japanese quick ( and made many errors -but that is how you learn). I remember the mongooses and the habus but the rats were only rural then and they looked just like the grey rat that you see anywhere. They also had the regular looking box turtles around the country side. We caught crabs and shrimp of all kinds, but now the reefs are filled in so that they are probably hard to find now. Fresh water fishing in the reservoirs for sunnes and bass, but i swam and fished the ocean as much as possible. Also we had good duck hunting, doves were small and did get some pigs on occasion. Winter weather was dreary cold and it RAINED and it RAINED for months.
There was a American civilian named Blackie who was a photographer he had boxes of photos, I do not know what happened to them or him.....jk