Re: Rat in the garden

You are right Tiff ratus is back this morning racing up and down and running right past the traps which I set in his runs .
The bait is gone but suffice to say he is outside !
I will resposion them and try again .
I really don't want to poison him it's so cruel .

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Success!
But not what i was expecting two baby Ratus arghhh!

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Wow. That's an excellent start.
Don't forget to wear some stout gloves.

Someone told me once, that birds and wild critters are very suspicious of anything new suddenly appearing - like a different bird table for example - and often give them a wide berth for a few days until they get used to it being there.
So I think that is really good you have caught two already and
perhaps it is because the youngsters are more adventurous than the older, wiser ones?

Anyway, well done you.

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The baby rats don't know about traps. They are rather cute though. Shows there are more there than the odd one too.

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Caught another baby this afternoon !
They are cute and seem very healthy but now they are being cute elsewhere !
Three down.

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Where are they going?

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I drove them away from here and let them loose not far from a rather mucky old farmyard where no doubt they will find something to eat.
Caught another one this morning .
It's obvious they are everywhere . I think they have moved in from the goat shed next door . The people have moved their goats elsewhere so there they have lost a food source.

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The pics on here make me squirm. I just hate rats, especially after seeing one in my hen coop and a little group of them playing under a bird food station thing l had.
Oh!...and then there was the big one by my dustbin, sitting like a squirell on its hind legs chomping on food!

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They'll be fine there, sounds like a good place to leave them.

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The tame fancy rats make lovely pets. If handled from very young & trained they are rather sweet. We had several over the years, all females, when my Son was a lad, they used to run around the living room & if the sensed danger would run to the nearest human & climb onto our shoulders, they were very cute, but they only live a couple of years & Son got so upset when they died we said no more.