How do I get rid of rats. I've put peanut butter and mars bar on traps, but the birds are eating it . I caught one rat but a bird also got caught. Is there anything that the bird will not eat.Id do not want to put poison down as you don't know where the rats go to die, and ther are childern around.
lindataylor Sat 31/05/08 22:31
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personally I would leave it to the professionals, your local council would be able to help.
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a really small bit of peanut butter, or old butter, something not very smelly. Birds have a pretty poor sense of smell, rats sense of smell is off the scale, if this
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is a rats olfactory bulb. If it's smellable, the rat will find it. Forget poison, it hardly even works, and even if it does take effect you'll have a dead rat lying somewhere.
If you have an infestation, you are bound by law to inform the council. If the rats you have breed, it'll be pandemonium, they can pull apart a house, cause electrical fires.
I tend to go with abovementioned advice. But don't get pros in if you have to pay for it $$$$$$$. You can do what they do yourself.
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I had a friend who had a really bad rat problem in her stable block because it was near the river. Her hubby's friend then worked for Rentokill & gave her this advice.
Put poison down in the right way. That is in specalist dispensers that prevent accidental poisoning of wildlife & pets.
Keep putting the poison down until you no longer have a problem - especially if it is all being eaten. The effect is cumulative & the rats will die eventually.
Don't worry about where the dead rats go - If a neighbour gets the council in or commercial exterminators they will use poisons & will not be concerned.
Live rats transmit dangerous diseases to humans, including children even if they are not visable - so they are less dangerous to the children's health dead.
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Maybe if you gave more info about where these rats are a problem ie, in the house, garden, shed, etc it would help a lot with your enquiries.
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The rats are running between the gardens of terraced houses Five were caught last year and so far three this year.
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Please don't put traps outside. Traps, unless they are the enclosed ones pest control professionals use, are intended to be used inside or under cover. If you use them outside you risk injuring not just pets and wildlife, but also pets. Rats are a serious pest - get a professional in, and do the job properly.
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Phone your local council.
They will be very unhappy about having rats in their area and will send someone round.
We had a problem in our area a few years ago (some idiot had a crack in his sewer cover and they were getting out).
We rang the local council and they came round very quickly.
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Contact your local council pest department and they will deal with them professionally. Remember in the UK, you are never more than 3 metres from a rat no matter where you are at ground level. There are trillions of them and many are becoming resistant to most rat poisons. The problem is not helped by less frequent waste collections and the amount of food we throw away, especially down the sink. Also remember that a rat can get in through a hole a mere fraction of its own size; they are experts at squeezing in and out.
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first you need a woodern box big enough to put two small dishes .1 small bag plaster of paris 1 small bag of porridge oats and brown sugar
make a hole in box just big enough for the rats place a small dish of water in the box
in the next dish mix equal parts plaster and porridge DRY....
add a small brown sugar about half the amount of porridge and plaster place dish in box...
you may see white droppingsthis means that its working keep topping up both dishes . good luck
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