It took five nights but we got the shifty little killer rat.
We had our prized White Bourkes Parakeet dragged from its nest and ripped through a rat hole in our aviary. We ended up setting over half a dozen traps of various kinds, gin traps, typical rat traps, rolling barrel trap, spring snares etc but to no avail, baited with everything from corn, venison and even a dead budgie but still no luck.
This little sod danced rings around all of them, night after night, all in front of the cameras, mocking us. Finally after adding a dollop of lube to the catch release of the gin trap, the rat made its fatal mistake and got sprung. It had over 6 hours in the jaws before we found it the next morning, plenty of time to think about what it did wrong. Here's the final 8 minutes of this things life.