I live on ground floor of an old, dilapidated house offering umpteen points of entrance to the rat(s). So no use using stronger drain covers or things like that. They just bust out the drain cover or come out of the commode (they are mighty strong creatures). And if they cannot bust out the drain cover they chew through a door (there are 5 doors to my house) or wooden partition.
I have till now used humane ways for last 25 years .. spray kerosene, ammonia .. try and make them sleepy using Xanax .. give them low blood pressure and bradycardia using mix of amlodipine and atenolol in butter.
But now it is beyond control. One of them punctured a 1 kilo bottle of cooking oil yesterday night and my kitchen is a mess.
So I have invested a lot of money in a rat trap from Amazon. There are 80 glowing reviews (by people who were like me almost driven out of their home by rats) that it breaks the rat's neck instantly and there is no pain to the animal (no blood too).
Feeling really bad .. but would feel lot more bad if this keeps on happening. One whole Saturday morning gone wiping my kitchen .. I have obsessive compulsive disorder and sight of my kitchen swimming in oil was enough to give me a stroke; I obsess over sticky fingers after eating one chicken finger so one can well imagine what I am going through now.
It is literally either I live or the rat(s). And if anyone knows someone with OCD they know how strenuous it is for sufferers like us.
Feeling sad .. but I have no way


P.S. - apologies if this is not the appropriate sub-forum.