Rat Catchers

Where to start

• Talk to Gertrude, in her house west of Varrock.

  • Varrock

Requirements

• • Icthlarin's Little Helper

Items to bring

• Cat or hellcat

• A kitten works, but it catches rats very slowly and needs to be fed. An overgrown cat does not work.

  • Overgrown cat

• Your cat may die on this quest.

• 1 rat poison (can be found in the Clock Tower Dungeon)

  • Rat poison

• Alternatively the ingredients to make it during the quest are:

• 1 vial (must be empty)

• 1 clean kwuarm (if needed, Zahur in Nardah cleans grimy herbs for 200 coins)

  • Clean kwuarm

• 1 red spiders' eggs

• 4 cheese

  • Cheese

• 1 unicorn horn dust

  • Unicorn horn dust

• 1 clean marrentill (if needed, Zahur in Nardah cleans grimy herbs for 200 coins)

  • Clean marrentill

• 1 bucket of milk

• 1 catspeak amulet (or cramulet containing a catspeak amulet)

• 1 pot of weeds (use an empty pot with weeds)

  • Pot of weeds
  • Weeds

• About 600 coins (about 300 with ring of charos (a))

  • Ring of charos (a)

• Snake charm (can be obtained during quest if not already in bank)

  • Snake charm

Quest rewards

2 quest points

• 4,500 experience

• Rat pole

• Able to train Overgrown Cats into wily and lazy cats

• The ability to name a lazy or wily cat (up to 6 letters long)