This morning after I had gotten up and had eaten breakfast. I went out side to check on a rat trap that I had set a couple days ago in a old rusty storage container that is right by our chicken coop. I had checked the rat trap yesterday morning and had nothing in it, but when I checked it later in the day for some reason it was set off I am thinking it was because it was to sensitive so I made it a little less sensitive, and this morning when I went a checked it I first just looked in there, and was go to walk away but it looked like it was set off so I went in there to look and see if that was the case. When I got back there there was a big old rat laying right by the trap dead with the trap set off. My ges at what happened was the pan that I put on there so it set off the trap and got whacked over the top of the head and that gave him a concussion or some thing and killed him. later I mesherd the rat and it mesherd at 16 inches long. It had a 9 inch body and a 7 inch tail. I am glad that I caught it because If the rat wasn’t messing with my chickens it was proudly messing with the nabers chickens.
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Grandpa said that he had a similar experience in trapping rats in Sitka. The trap was sprung, but the rat was dead next to the trap. He figured the rat got hit in the head as it was backing out of the trap.
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My trap when this rat got caught the trap had a big pedle that I made out of hard where cloth and some ducktape the pedle was so big it went to the egea of the trap bord, and I had the trap really sensitive, so the rat prodley was going for the bait, and hit the egea of the trigger and was not far enof in to get pind.