Rats !

[Ajax123]

Poison the bu**ers. You poinsoning one colony will not affect the overall population very much. Do you have Kids......think about Leptspirosis as well.

We had rats - It's nowt to be ashamed of - the council Pest Controller sorted them and touch wood we have not had a problem since.

Cutting off the food supply only works if this is overt, i.e. if you chuck out the remnants of sunday dinner for the "birds" and that sort of thing. Most rats live in sewers and near water courses. when there are floods or drouts they are forced out of their homes to forage elsewhere. once they have colonised the only realistic way to treat is to kill the blighters.

 

[nybor62]

i used to pick oranges in greece , rats nesting in the trees use to give you a right fright

 

[Gazzer]

Poison the bu**ers. You poinsoning one colony will not affect the overall population very much. Do you have Kids......think about Leptspirosis as well.

We had rats - It's nowt to be ashamed of - the council Pest Controller sorted them and touch wood we have not had a problem since.

Cutting off the food supply only works if this is overt, i.e. if you chuck out the remnants of sunday dinner for the "birds" and that sort of thing. Most rats live in sewers and near water courses. when there are floods or drouts they are forced out of their homes to forage elsewhere. once they have colonised the only realistic way to treat is to kill the blighters.

Its getting a poison that they like the taste of. I have no issues in destroying them by any means !

 

[chrisroe]

my mate had them in his loft he trapped one and decided to dispatch it by airgun

now he is a pretty crap shot at the best of times but even i though he could of sorted it in less than 8 shots

 

[Ajax123]

Its getting a poison that they like the taste of. I have no issues in destroying them by any means !

not something you will be able to do yourself generally. The poisons you can buy from the likes of hardware shops is generally not very effective. It has been around so long and is diluted so much that it does not do them much harm. Rats are very robust and adaptable....hence they have survived so well.....and if you have a colony nesting where they should not be nesting you will be best to get a registered pest controller involved.

 

[user123]

Is rat poison poisonous to cats and other pets and animals? That would be the only thing that worries me :yikes: When I first lived in a rented cottage in Cornwall I was lying in the bath and suddenly there was this big thumping in the airing cupboard at the footend of the bath, the wodden door nearly opened, frightened the heck out of me, was pregnant at the time - turns out they were rats that got in the cupboard from the coal house adjacent to the bathroom. What attracted them? Bars of soap I put amongst the towels!! There were teethmarks all over the soap! Some bars half eaten!! mad... anyhow, the landlord told us to remove soap and not have any food out anywhere for them to even smell and they went away, so that seems to be the answer. In the countryside you can shoot them, seems kinder than slow death by poison, but not sure if that is allowed in a built up area?

 

[doug boardley]

we were rabbitting on a railway batter once, ferrets bolted a "rabbitt" that pursed the net up, I jumped on it and nearly pooed my pants when I realised it was an enormous rat ( I was only 13 at the time) I threw rat and net as far away as I could!!

 

[Ajax123]

Is rat poison poisonous to cats and other pets and animals? That would be the only thing that worries me :yikes: When I first lived in a rented cottage in Cornwall I was lying in the bath and suddenly there was this big thumping in the airing cupboard at the footend of the bath, the wodden door nearly opened, frightened the heck out of me, was pregnant at the time - turns out they were rats that got in the cupboard from the coal house adjacent to the bathroom. What attracted them? Bars of soap I put amongst the towels!! There were teethmarks all over the soap! Some bars half eaten!! mad... anyhow, the landlord told us to remove soap and not have any food out anywhere for them to even smell and they went away, so that seems to be the answer. In the countryside you can shoot them, seems kinder than slow death by poison, but not sure if that is allowed in a built up area?

Yes it is MG but if it done correctly then the rats take the poison from bait boxes which Cats cannot access. The poisons are generally based on anticoagulants. Warfarin was a popular one not long ago but I am not sure it is used so much these days cos the rats get used to it and quickly breed it into ineffectiveness. Shooting them is not an answer in my opinion........,guns of any sort should be banned from any but the most rigorously controlled activities

 

[DHTiling]

apparently Neale, you're never more than 6 feet away from a rat (if popular myth is to be believed)

That is very true.. Rats are everywhere.. in built up areas they tend to stay out of sight till night.. then they come out and play.🙂🙂🙂

As long as they have not entered your property then do not worry...

 

[SandyFloor]

apparently Neale, you're never more than 6 feet away from a rat (if popular myth is to be believed)

I thought that was Man Utd supporters.