Even the most conscious and attentive owners of rats are not insured from mistakes. If to let out rat to take a walk to the room, having locked door, or just to forget to close cage, the animal can run away. In that case it is necessary to resort to urgent measures, especially if with you except rat of the house there lives cat, dog or even polecat.
Instruction
1. Collect all animals who can do to your rat harm, and constantly you keep them in one place in sight. Of course, if yours, say, dog is on friendly terms with rat, then she can track down to you the fugitive on smell. The doors conducting on the street need to be closed too.
2. Give sound signal for this purpose to call up the run-away rat to themselves. Having got used to the nickname or sound of toy squeaker, the roof can come running at once to you, especially if it walks very long ago and has already got hungry. Otherwise you can long wait for return of the hungry pet. And if the small animal is frightened, then he will hide.
3. Look in each corner and in each slot, listen to the slightest rustle. Usually rats hide in such places as: under the bed, behind cabinet or in cabinet, behind the fridge or in other place in kitchen. At the same time they are difficult to be got from there.
4. If you have found that place where the run-away rat hides, try to use one of food baits that from there to entice it. Be ready that the rat can pull out sharply piece of favourite food directly at you from hands and run away immediately back into "mink". These animals are extremely quick.
5. If your tricks with toy squeaker and treats do not work, try to sit quietly near the fugitive's shelter. Perhaps, she will leave to you. Also try to put cage with food and water near the place where the rat hides. Having got hungry, it can run to be supported in cage. If several rats have escaped, one caught and appetizingly hrumkayushchy rat can draw to herself attention of all other run-away animals.
6. If your domestic rodents are well trained when bores them to explore the apartment or the house, they will come running to you. If all attempts to catch the run-away small animals have ended with failure, buy special trap for small animals.