Rat Trap Conundrum

[mbailey]

I was actually playing AH about 2 months ago and I heard this terrible shriek...so I jumped up and ran toward the sounds of terror to find my wife standing in the bathtub...I asked her WTF and through the convulsions she was

 having she pointed under the sink (it is on a freestanding cabinet with about 4" of space underneath it) I looked underneath it and there the little vermin sat, looking at me, taunting me with his whisker twitch...Quickly I shut the

door and put a towel in front of it to keep him from escaping...I armed myself with a plunger, said a quick prayer, and went into battle with the beady eyed terrorist who had just caused my wife a mild stroke...I rattled the plumber's

helper under the cabinet to spook him out and he obliged by streaking out and tried his hardest to make his way up the corner where the tub and wall meet...it was a violent struggle, with me missing several killshots while my wife

cut loose a stream of obscenities about my inability to off the little critter...when the battle was over he was buried at sea, I did not want there to be a grave site for fear of it turning into a place of worship for his followers.

 

[BreakingBad]

Got another one last night.  Not sure how humane those snap traps are.

I'm wondering if baiting the trap is drawing the rats from outside to a place they wouldn't be going otherwise.  Since I've cleaned out/mopped the garage, there isn't anything for them to eat in there anymore. 

I don't really care if rats do their thing outside, foraging and whatnot.  Hate to think I'm drawing them though with the trap where they wouldn't be going before.