For my two cents worth
1. I agree with Carl that bacon is a better bait than peanut butter as it is far harder to remove than is peanut butter or cheese.
2. BEWARE of using rat poison. While in the past arsenic has been used but due to other wildlife pets, kids etc it is no longer used. What is used is warferen. Rodents do not vomit. Warfaren is a blood thinner it causes them to bleed internally. The trouble is once they take the poison they seek water which is why your PLASTIC PIPES were chewed.
3. For me, the traps are more humane.
4. HAVE YOU SEEN RATS? Before we moved down south, I had a great peony collection. Something was eating off each flower bud before it opened. I put out rat traps and the traps kept going off and catching nothing. I discovered, it was only a field mouse and the rat traps would miss them unless they were unlucky enough to go in sideways. Citrus Rats are far larger than the common Norway rat. They may simply be too large for your spring traps of the glue traps to work on.
YOU MAY WANT TO ASK AT ONE OF THE FARM SUPPLY PLACES.
HAPPY HUNTING
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