Inhumane Rat Trap

This is my new calling - ridding the world if the world's deadliest rodent (when it wants to be).

You see peoples' videos - how a rat almost gets caught in the trap, etc... Here's my suggestion - set up motion detection - so you get some kind of alarm (now that's tricky - since the rat can hear way better than you can - so I'm not sure how to work that part...) that tells you when the rat is near the bait. These guys have evolved into pretty intelligent maze solvers - after all, it's the rats that beat the traps that survive - we've been killing the dumb ones all these years.

Then, you set up (obviously) a couple of guns that you can control remotely - you want to take your best shot, not your only shot. You need to rig those up so you get a display with a cross-hair, etc. And of course, this needs to be night-vision stuff - since our friends only come out at night. Tricky. From what I've read, the rat is winning.

When our friend is near the food, and you know it, bam! Good riddance, hope you left a note telling your buddy where you were going for some treats, so I can get him tomorrow!

As a new homeowner, I'm planning early - it's only a matter of time before I encounter one of them..

Of course, that's a battle. The war is in the sewers - where we're practically breeding them. We need a new system - the stuff in the sewers needs to be used as a kind of fuel - rats included. Burn them!

Oh, to make your traps more effective - do what the pros do - leave them out, unset for a few days, so the rat gets used to them - though rats like to explore, they are suspicious of anything new. Then, once you see the food from the unset trap being taken, go for the kill.

I guess, in my earlier suggestion, you could dispense with the guns and use some kind of schock therapy. I.e., you press the switch when you see the ready to take a bite?

But, we need to get to the source. What do you do with a dead rat? Toss it in the garbage? Then he's just going to be eaten by the other rats that forage in the garbage? Bury him? Same story. We need to bring all our modern technology to bear on this problem. To make the next quantum leap in our quality of life, we must eliminate the rat.