23-11-2017, 06:30 PM
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Re: Rat in the garden
Originally Posted by susiejaeger
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Muddy please get rid of him, we had them last year in our garden, I thought there was only one, but no there was a family of them, we did put Rat poison down and they have gone now.
23-11-2017, 07:15 PM
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Re: Rat in the garden
Rats are vermin and should be got rid of asap, or Roland will bring his missus and the kids into Your nice warm house for the winter...the patter of those tiny feet are not what You want especially if they gerrin the loft etc and start chewin' through the electric cables
23-11-2017, 10:01 PM
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Re: Rat in the garden
When I first moved here there was a bird table and I bought a feeding station type thing to shove in the soil.Wonderful watching all the birds.
The squirrels got into them all, the rats came.... so I took them down.
No rats and the odd squirrel.
Last year the new neighbours put out a feeding station.... squirrels galore running amok and pattering about on the bungalow roofs. Not seen any rats - but I'm sure there must be.
24-11-2017, 09:08 AM
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Re: Rat in the garden
Originally Posted by May
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Rats are vermin and should be got rid of asap, or Roland will bring his missus and the kids into Your nice warm house for the winter...the patter of those tiny feet are not what You want especially if they gerrin the loft etc and start chewin' through the electric cables
Usually rats come for food it's mice that come for habitation .
Luckily theyseem to gravitate towards my neighbours house !
However I may invest in a humane trap .
25-11-2017, 09:32 AM
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Re: Rat in the garden
OK went out to the garden centre to buy trap .The man there said ominously I think we have one left .....
He didn't there was an entire big space where the rat traps used to be .
Put bird food out on elevated tables this morning and blow me rattie comes running down the path towards house .......argghhh!
This might be getting serious....
Jack russell anyone ?
25-11-2017, 09:40 AM
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Ohhh I'm having bad memories of when I was young , we lived in a wooden house and at night while in bed I could hear nawing above me , we were infested with rats , family would see them in the kitchen , eventually dad put warfarin down in the loft but they were there for a long time . I now have a terrible fear of rats , I'll never forget the sound of them running and chewing above my bed .
25-11-2017, 10:05 AM
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Re: Rat in the garden
Mups I have just been at the window watching the clever thing climb up a flimsy plant and somehow get on to the bird table .They are so agile. I banged on the window to no affect so went out ( blooming cold out there) Rattie eyeballed me from the bird table and then did a bunk .
Bad news is it was a juvenile lets hope he's an only child .......
25-11-2017, 02:42 PM
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Re: Rat in the garden
In battle mode i went out and pruned the offending plant that had facilitated the rats visit to the bird table .Hardly was I back in the house when I saw ratus as bold as brass scoffing the ground birds tray ( which I had put on top of the cage ) .
Note the Tom and Gerry rat hold on the right hand side .
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