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Rat Catchers is a quest in which you help various people with rat-related problems. The quest introduces the Rat Pits, a collection of underground arenas where cats train and fight.

Details[edit | edit source]

Walkthrough[edit | edit source]

Starting out[edit | edit source]

Items required: A cat. Recommended: a teleport to Ardougne.

Talk with Gertrude. She will tell you to speak to Phingspet and Grimesquit. They can be found in the Varrock Sewers. After speaking with them briefly, your cat will have to catch eight rats before they will speak to you more. To find out how many rats you've caught, check your quest journal or speak to either of them and they will tell you. Alternatively, a conversation box will pop up when you've caught the eight rats.

Catch eight rats in Varrock Sewers by clicking the "chase" option on your cat. Then, speak to them again to receive a rat pole, and they will send you to talk to Jimmy Dazzler in Ardougne.

Jimmy Dazzler[edit | edit source]

Items required: A cat (If you have a kitten, bring a bit of fish in case it gets hungry, it will take significantly longer to complete this part of the quest with a kitten), rat pole. Recommended: a teleport to Ardougne and Varrock.



To make your way inside the house, you will need to make sure you don't draw the guards' attention; running permanently is advised and having lots of patience will help greatly. Guards will not notice your cat. There are three "checkpoints"; upon reaching these points, any guards who see you will send you back to these points, rather than the very beginning.

Sneaking around the mansion.


When sneaking through the gardens and mansion, unless advised otherwise, wait until the guards stop moving. Try to move when they're as far away from you as they can be.



3. Wait until the guards aren't facing the area, then run behind the hedge north of the mansion.




Guard position for going across the hall


3. Find your way into the opposite bedroom on the east side across the hall and wait.

Guard position for going down to the eastern big room


Note: If you're having trouble with this part, try logging on to a different world, as sometimes the guards' patrols become out-of-sync, making this part very difficult to complete.

5. Catch the two rats in this room; then, proceed down the ladder.

6. There are three rats distributed over the room the ladder leads to and the kitchen. There are no guards here that might catch you.

To proceed, all six rats need to have been caught.


Hooknosed Jack[edit | edit source]

Items required: A cat and lots of fish for it (even if you're using a fully grown cat, both raw or cooked fish works), a catspeak amulet, four pieces of cheese, rat poison or the ingredients for it (a vial, red spiders' eggs, and a kwuarm), a bucket of milk, a marrentill and unicorn horn dust.

You can find Hooknosed Jack in south-eastern Varrock (look for the minigame icon). He will tell you about the rat infestation in a warehouse nearby. You need rat poison, and he will make you some if you give him a vial, red spiders' eggs, and a kwuarm. Use the poison on four pieces of cheese to create poisoned cheese; then, go to the warehouse south of Jack near the pub. Go in and climb to the top. Use your poisoned cheese on the four rat holes to poison them. Then, go back to Hooknosed Jack.


Fighting the King rat.

Hooknosed Jack will then tell you that there is still one rat left - the biggest and most evil. Go back to the warehouse. Climb upstairs and inside a room, you'll see the King rat, but you won't be able to reach it yourself. Pick up your cat, and use it on the hole in the wall (not the rat hole) to challenge the King rat.

Note: Eight or more fish should be enough even for a kitten. Raw karambwanji does work. A kitten has 4 Hitpoints while a hellcat has 6 HP (5-6 fish is enough for a hellcat), so bring food accordingly - the King rat has a max hit of 1.

Use fish on the hole in the wall (NOT CAT) whenever your cat takes too much damage, as it will die if its health gets too low. If your cat retreats, the king rat will regain all hitpoints and you'll have to start from the beginning of the fight. If you are low on fish, you can go down the ladder and log out then log back in to get your cat back. After you defeat the King rat, go back to Hooknosed Jack. He'll give you access to the Varrock Rat Pits and tell you about Smokin' Joe.

Smokin' Joe[edit | edit source]



Go to Keldagrim (you can use the minecart entrance north-west of the Grand Exchange, the Blast Furnace minigame teleport, or the city's entrance east of Rellekka) and talk to Smokin' Joe east of the pickaxe shop (far to the east of east Keldagrim). He will tell you about a nearby rat problem. The only way to get the rats out is to smoke them out, but Smokin' Joe can't do it because of the poor condition of his lungs. Offer to help him. Use your weeds on your pot, then light it with your tinderbox, and use it on the rat hole to the east of him with your cat out. Rats will come out the other side and quickly go back in. Wear your catspeak amulet, then use your smouldering pot on the rat hole again, and your cat will offer to help. Accept, and your cat will ambush the rats and kill them. Talk to Smokin' Joe again, and he will give you access to the Keldagrim Rat Pits and tell you about The Face.


The Face and Felkrash[edit | edit source]



You can find The Face in Port Sarim next to the fishing shop (look for the minigame icon). She will tell you to talk to Felkrash in the rat pits. Go down the manhole and find Felkrash. She will tell you to get rid of all of Port Sarim's vermin at once.



Note: If you already own a snake charm from The Feud, you will not receive another.
Note: You must talk to the rug merchant while wearing the Ring of charos (a) and go through all the options for the possibility to pay only 75 coins to ride to Pollnivneach.
The music sheet to charm the rats.
Charming the rats in Port Sarim.


Note: The order is: D, G, E, F#,(raise octave) D, B, C#, A.


Rewards[edit | edit source]

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Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • Just before your cat kills the smoked-out mice in Keldagrim, it will say "Exterminate! Exterminate!", which is a reference to the Daleks in the British science fiction show, Doctor Who.