Rats

[mullet]

I also use one of the new electric traps. The rat crawls in the little box for a snack and gets electrocuted.

[GlisGlis]

go primitive !! 
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,56954.msg781932.html

...or maybe a payute deadfall

[DC]

There's some good ideas to try. I put the rat trap in a made to fit box last night and he/she never touched it. Bait was untouched. 

[Marc St Louis]

Give him time, something new makes them nervous at first but they will come around

[bjrogg]

Might even try giving them some free bait close to hole. Something they can eat without getting caught and feel secure. Sometimes drilling small holes in back to let smell of bait out helps draw them to.
Bjrogg

[NimRand]

I generally use a newer trap that requires them to enter in but i have had the same problem as you. Mouse kept tripping the trap and robbing me blind of the peanut butter. Solution was to coat a piece of bread in the peanut butter and then tie it on with dental floss. Had to do it a few times with different mice. Worked everytime; problem solved.

[vinemaplebows]

Most of the problem with trapping rats is correct setup, and the trap used. You want the expanded trigger, a large plastic plate....rather than the metal tab. Always place your traps trigger against a wall, never just out on the floor at random. You will increase your kill a heck of a lot. I still like the old victor traps (wooden) with large plastic trigger, they are called the professional m-326 they are adjustable as far as sensitivity, where other traps are not. Where gloves when baiting, treat everything like you are deer hunting...scent control. Vanilla extract wiped on the wooden trap, then only a SMALL amount of bait placed as close to the trigger as possible you can also put bait under the trigger where it is much more difficult to rob  ...again trigger against a wall.

[YosemiteBen]

I like Shawn Wood in YT he makes some interesting traps

[GlisGlis]

I'm waiting for that rat skin picture.
is it winning the match?   

[DC]

I put the trap in the box 10 days ago and it hasn't been touched. It actually doesn't look like the rat has been around. There has been a pair of owls close by for awhile, maybe they picked him off. If you you want the skin I'll send it to you, the whole rat, not just the skin, I ain't touching it

[mullet]

Should taste like squirrel, only difference is the tail.

[JEB]

I super glue corn to my four traps.  That solved my bait stealing  problem.  And it works.

[Dakota Kid]

Tie/ or hook some cheese cloth or gauze to the bait pan, then ad the peanut butter. I've never had the bait touched without the trap springing. I caught three mice in the same trap with this once.