Their dad is having the time of his life.
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Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
I can’t make out the crossed out word…flopping? Fussing? Help me out here guys
Fictional
NO SWERING, MY MUM WATCHES ME USE LEMMY >:(
But did it work?
The 2x4 will fall in with the food and the rat. After eating the food, the rat will climb out using the 2x4 and reposition it on the counter so the dad will put out more food.
I mean, to be fair, bucket traps are a tried and true rodent trapping method, when done right at least lol.
I think with the "walk the plank" style bucket trap he'll need a pivot point further into the bucket so the rat has to get partway across before it'll fall, which prevents it from jumping back before it falls in. Can do this with a thin rod that goes across attached to the bottom of whatever is used for the plank part.
One method that also sometimes works is putting a ramp on the side of the bucket to let the rat up, smearing peanut butter a few inches below the rim on the inside, and then greasing the edges a bit, so the rat has to try and reach in to get the peanut butter and then slips into the bucket because they can't keep a grip on the sides.
Or he can go the Mouse Hunt route and just befriend the rat. I'm sure that couldn't possibly go wrong.
That rat ain't gonna be trapped for 5 seconds. It has an escape ladder going into the bucket with it when it falls
It doesn't need the ladder. Rats can jump vertically over 4 feet with no assistance. Source: had pet rats.
from water? what are they, dolphin rats?
The rat will probably be able to stand on the wood after having fallen in.
I forgot to read the water part smh.
It actually looks like it has a spring or hinge or something under the board on the garbage can. It may very well be an acme product.
Hello, James. Welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island. Nothing to boast of. You could walk around it in an hour, but still it was, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we went for a visit and discovered the place had been infested with rats! They'd come on a fishing boat and gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island? Hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait and the rats would come for the coconut, and... They would fall into the drum. And after a month, you have trapped all the rats, but what do you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it and they begin to get hungry. And one by one... They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them and release them into the trees, but now they don't eat coconut anymore. Now, they only eat rat. You have changed their nature.
Why the water? Doesn’t he know rats can swim?
Or is his intention to keep the rat in there for hours or days until it drowns?
A couple inches in the bottom will keep it from jumping out without killing it. They’ll have a nice bath and then get dumped outside in the morning.
Yes, that’s the intent of a bocket trap.
shouldn't respond but, people lose their minds over the censoring of a word
Are just two comments noticing it "freaking out"? I mean it's kind of reasonable…
Dude, don’t you understand this is what dads live for.
Nice. Probably won't work, but I appreciate that their parents have the ingenuity to come up with stuff like this.
Why is "fucking" censored???
no clue, I stole it 👍🏻
It’s the little things in life
Mouse trap Mondays!