How to Plug a Rat's Nest in the Garden
- 1). Set out traps or bait to attempt to catch the rat or rats before plugging the hole. Setting out unbaited traps for a few days and then baited but not set, for a few more days, greatly increases your chances of successfully capturing a wary rat. There are many trapping and baiting options available at home improvement stores, department stores and garden centers.
- 2). Flood the burrow using a water hose if you have no success with baiting or trapping. Even if you have caught a rat or two, there may be more in the burrow. Flooding may help by drowning rats, or evacuating them.
- 3). Fill the opening of the burrow with dirt to successfully plug it.
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