Re: Feeding your local birds.
Originally Posted by
MrFraggle
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May I suggest that rather than feed three times a day you change that every other day as birds can become to dependent on your provision of food.
I do this during the summer months but increase it to daily during winter.
I had a couple of rats find calling and eat the bits of food dropped bybthe birds which I not mind so much but I have neighbours that would moan so as I knew where their nest was, which was under next doors shed,
I laid poison and have not seen any since though my cat Millie did get one the other day. I also note that I have a fox that comes calling so that will help keep any rats down.
Mr. Fraggle, just a word of warning about baiting rats.
My oldest dog almost died several years back. I had to get her to the emergency vets at 1 o/clock in the morning.
She was vomitting blood continually.
She was put on a drip immediately but they didn't expect her to see morning.
She made it though, and is still here today to tell the tale, but if I hadn't rushed her in when I did, she'd have been a gonna.
I shall never know exactly what happened, she couldn't get to the bait (which was laid by a professional pest controller), we can only think she ate other creatures, maybe mice, that had taken the poison.
You saying about your cat catching them reminded me of how badly wrong it can go, laying bait. Please be very careful.