Rat recommendations. don't want to kill the dog!

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keepingactive Thousand Oaks, CA(Zone 10a) Aug 09, 2010

Eeeeeeeu. I feed the birds and the squirrels. The rats have found the food. I put out one of those Big Black Plastic traps out after 10 pm to avoid getting the birds, etc. I caught a rat. At 12:30 am my indoor cats alerted me to something new and exciting in the back yard. I used my super duper flashlight looked out and saw it about 20 ft away on the patio, and decided that I would wait until the sun came up. At 6:30 am I went out to dispose of him and he was gone! I looked all over the back yard and up on the hill--could not find him. Two days later, he popped up against the pool cover. He didn't die fast, oh no, he apparenty fought that darn trap (even tho I got him by the head) and travelled over 30 feet and ended up in the pool. Yuk. I didn't think to look in the pool, I thought a bigger animal had just came and took him away. I fished him out, put him and the trap into 3 plastic bags and tossed him ever so gently into the trash can. This was last Thursday, my trash is not picked up until this Thursday. It's been in the 70's here. He is well done. I have to hold my breath when I walk by the cans. QUESTION: Anyone know of anything I can dump, squirt, spray into the can to get rid of the STINK. My neighbor suggested that in the future when I catch a rat, that I freeze it until trash pick up day. I told him he was more than welcome to put the dead nasty thing in his freezer. He declined.
Thanks for any suggestions, Sue

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