<p>I'm terrified of pests. What should I do??</p>
<p>Set up mouse traps!</p>
<p>Tell your RA</p>
<p>shoot it with a gun</p>
<p>automatic weapons will increase your odds.</p>
<p>(joke)</p>
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<p>mouse traps</p>
<p>Don’t eat in your room and put mouse traps</p>
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<p>Grab a shoebox and try to scoop it up. Put a lid over it and release it outside the building. In my opinion, those mouse traps are inhumane. </p>
<p>Not to mention, mice and rats aren’t scary. They’re actually pretty sweet. I actually used to have pet mice:)</p>
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… and they’ll come straight back into the building.</p>
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Maybe healthy, tame ones. Wild rats are carriers for all sorts of diseases which I would rather not get.</p>
<p>Rats are actually vicious. You can’t live with rats. You need a serious exterminator to go over the whole building.</p>
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Run away before you catch the Bubonic plague.</p>
<p>I’d also go for the catch/release plan. I see no need to kill it.</p>
<p>lure it out a window with cheese on string tied to a stick</p>
<p>A mouse trap will do nothing to a rat. Maybe **** it off a bit, but it certainly won’t kill it.</p>
<p>A rat trap baited with peanut butter does the job pretty well, have got many rats that way.</p>
<p>Yes, pet rats are great pets - but “wild” rats are not. They are not domesticated the way pet rats are (I’ve had them as pets before), and also carriers for many diseases as a previous poster stated.</p>
<p>That being said, think about the rat traps you’re using. The sticky ones are torture even though they may not seem it. The rats may scream when caught. It will also be unpleasant to come home one night to a dead rat(s), so be prepared. Use gloves or pick it up in a bag so as not to touch it. Try to figure out where they are getting into your room from and bring it to the attention of your RA or someone in charge of building maintenance. They can do a lot of damage to your room, building wiring, etc. by chewing.</p>
<p>Use a glue trap to make sure that they don’t escape</p>
<p>I wouldn’t use a glue trap. They get dragged around and you usually end up having to kill the rat anyhow (drowning in the classic way). </p>
<p>They make (or used to, I have a bunch of old ones) actual rat traps, just like mouse traps, but quite big (got to be careful, they’ll break fingers).</p>
<p>Sounds like you’ve found a great away around your school’s pet policy! :)</p>
<p>Maybe try looking into Havahart traps. If you’re squeamish about rats I don’t think a dead rat is much better, and a lot of kill traps are either gory or really unpleasant ways to go. I am a huge fan of rats, though, so I’m biased. Good luck!</p>
<p>trust me. mouse traps are the best, not some glue trap mumbo jumbo, they can’t even catch flies. </p>
<p>I couldn’t even catch a frog with a shoebox without corning it and blinding it with a flashlight, so good luck with a rat.</p>
<p>Also, rats are smart. If the trap doesn’t break it’s neck, it will know better than to come back for more.</p>
<p>Soak cotton balls in peppermint oil and leave them where you see the rat. It’ll get out of your room as fast as possible.</p>
<p>(Make sure it’s peppermint oil; peppermint extract will just get it drunk. I mean, unless that’s your thing.)</p>
<p>Pick up any thing off the floor like bookbags or clothing and lay down traps and tell your RA.</p>
<p>Catching it and releasing it outside the building will do no good because it’ll just come back in the way it came. If you favor catch and release methods, release it far away (for the filthy creature) so it’ll have a harder time getting back in. Let it go bother someone else!</p>
<p>If you have a rat in your own home, you have to deal with it. Dorm is more like a hotel or apartment building as far as rat elimination goes. Report it and make sure they take steps to get rid of the rat. They aren’t really solitary animals either, so there could be more.</p>