HELP MY RATS AND MOUSES got OUT?

MY 3 JUMBO RATS, TWO MOUSES, 2 PINKIES AND 2 RAT PUPS GOT OUT .


MY LITTLE SISTER DROPED THE CAGE AND IT BROKE AND NOW THERE GONE AND MY MOM HATES THEM


HELP ME WHAT DO I DOHELP MY RATS AND MOUSES got OUT?
Build a ramp or stairs that leads to a high box. Fill the bottom of the box with some type of food, rub the food up the ramp or stairs. The rats should smell the food and walk up the ramp to eat it, then they fall into the box and can't get out. A couple of tips: you may want to put some type of weight in the box, so they can't tip it over. You'll also want to use a box that they can't chew through, cardboard is probably not best.HELP MY RATS AND MOUSES got OUT?
Call the exterminator.
Get an old bowl, and oil it with vegetable oil, then get some kind of flat surface that wont tip the bowl over like a tongue depresser or a shim, then id say make some popcorn and put in the inside of the bowl i did that with my hamster and it worked, its worth a shot right? i kno it sounds crazy. the oil will make it slippy so they cant get out.... word of advice dont use your mothers good bowl. as for the pinkies and the pups im not sure your going to find them the way you want to depending on how old they were they might be dead hunnie. Look in odd places, block any holes in the wall or anything like that. Dont forget that mice and rats are great climbers. so look high and low. A good thing with rats too is put some peanut butter on a paper plate and set it out rats love that. hope i helped some.
Try making the homemade trap described here:


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My two rats would always get out of their tank no matter what I did to stop them, they were too smart and worked together. They got to the point where I would come home from work and I would see a black streak and a white streak running back into their tank. They knew I had come home and were making a b-line back to their home so they wouldn't get yelled at! I remember one time I came home and they had been in the food. Their was a pile of carrot peices on the floor over here, and apple peices over there lol They had it all sorted out in little piles all over the hardwood floor. One time I left water in the sink and they spent all afternoon swimming. I came home to two sopping wet rats perfectly ';contained' in their dry cage =) I miss those guys...





Adriene
If you leave the cage somewhere around where it was, the rats might come back- I think they usually do that. Look in random places for the other ones.
Get a cat!
Um, Pinkies don't run very fast (or at all). How are they gone?
Put the cage on the floor with food and water in it. Leave the door to it open. Place the cage in an area where you can view it with out seeming to be. The rodents will stop in for a feeding eventually, and when they do, shut the door. Set up a temporary cage to put them in until you catch all of them. Also, check around your house for any areas they can become trapped in, for example empty aquariums and such to be sure they haven't fallen in.
it is actually MICE!
You'll probably have gotten a new cage by now (hopefully). I agree with the idea of having a ramp leading up to the edge of the container, but your rats will probably be smart enough not to hall into a the hole. Cover the opening with a large sheet of stiff paper (i.e. construction paper) with the center sliced in a radial pattern and carefully place food on the opposite side of tank from the ramp (obviously a little way off from the edge so that the rats don't just reach up and grab the food). That way they'll see a solid surface to walk across, but fall through the hole you've cut when they put their weight on it.





As for your mom, you might consider begging and pleading her to not do anything drastic like putting out lethal traps. In fact, you could even try to enlist her help! If she happens to come across one of the runaways, ask her to get the vacuum hose out and put some panty-hose across the opening. That way she can capture the animals without actually touching them or sucking them into the vacuum altogether and deposit them into the cage...they just might be a little traumatized from the experience.
Try getting a humane rodent trap... it wont hurt them, and then you can put them back in their cage as they are caught.