Any advice on getting rid of rats? Dogs found a nest and the more we looked the more we found. Poison, traps, baits, what's the best way?

Dog's doing a fine job of it already! LOL

I cycle through 3 different poisons, which contain different ingredients. It doesn't matter which poisons you use. Some rats will get a food adversion and stop eating the bait, so you will have to shoot or kill some by other methods.

Keith

Fire crackers and shotguns that's how the Amish do it!

Hit them really hard with traps right away the 1st night. Like overkill it. They wise up FAST.

We fought an infestation of rats in our barn the summer of 2024. Livestock fed in there. Tried trapping, eco friendly bait bc of the dogs, what a joke, you name it. We finally got some "barn cats" from the pound. 2 males are excellent on rats. In 30 days they had them nearly gone. Haven't seen a rat in months.

How do you set it up so that the dogs can't get into it? I can just keep the dogs away for awhile also.

The dogs and cats can't get into the barns I put the poison in. To keep the birds out of it, we put in in the holes in the fiber board that covers the studs. Every once in a while a rat will carry a piece of the poison out. If a chicken or rooster eats it, their combs and wattles turn real pale and they get weak. If we notice that we give them a veterinary vitamin K tablet. It's much higher dosage then the human supplements. It usually saves them.

I recommend having some of the vitamin K tablets on hand in case your dog or another pet gets into the poison.

I don't like using poison, but nothing else is as easily effective.

Keith

The best rat dogs Ive ever seen were Jack Russell Terriers. I bought pheasants from a guy who also raised JRTs. When the last of the birds were out of the pens, he cut the dogs loose. Those dogs were each killing a rat a minute. Digging them out, tossing them into the air. It was wild watching them .