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There's a rat in mi kitchen...
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No really there is, and I'm totally freaked out.
We have an old fire, never used in there, and I'd noticed the dog snuffling round it extremely interested and jokingly said to Mr Boo "Bet there's a rat behind there". Well it bloody backfired on me, as apparently there is, Mr Boo saw it scuttle back in there when he did a late night forage for food (hubby I mean, not the rat, though no doubt that's what it was doing as well!) I know (well now I do) that it was eating the dog's left over food, so that will be picked up before i go to bed each night, there's nothing else (food wise) it can get to.
Would a humane trap work? About a tenner on Ebay. Reluctant to put poison down as a) im a softy, don't want to actually kill it, and b) scared the dog will eat the poison instead. What do I put in there? The trap I mean? Chocolate?
Mr Boo says that once it's gone, he'll rip the fire out and board up the hole.
Please help me, I shudder each time I think about it :-(
We have an old fire, never used in there, and I'd noticed the dog snuffling round it extremely interested and jokingly said to Mr Boo "Bet there's a rat behind there". Well it bloody backfired on me, as apparently there is, Mr Boo saw it scuttle back in there when he did a late night forage for food (hubby I mean, not the rat, though no doubt that's what it was doing as well!) I know (well now I do) that it was eating the dog's left over food, so that will be picked up before i go to bed each night, there's nothing else (food wise) it can get to.
Would a humane trap work? About a tenner on Ebay. Reluctant to put poison down as a) im a softy, don't want to actually kill it, and b) scared the dog will eat the poison instead. What do I put in there? The trap I mean? Chocolate?
Mr Boo says that once it's gone, he'll rip the fire out and board up the hole.
Please help me, I shudder each time I think about it :-(
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Goldenboll, //put a board down with a glue like substance on it, hardware or b&q sell it for catching rats / mice, put bacon in middle of it, rats love bacon !!!//
NO No No No!!!!!! do not use glue boards!!!! they are evil and nasty things, I have seen what happens when a rat get stuck to one of these devices. The rat had chewed off two legs and his tail to try to get away, there is absolutely no humanity in that, sickening!! Glue boards should be illegal!!
I would strongly advise not to use a terrier, I have also seen the aftermath from that, yes the terrier caught the rat, it then run around the lounge chewing and grinding the rat, tossing it and rolling around it, the terrier would not be caught until it had completely covered all furnishings with with rat blood.
Rats are not dirty actually, they do live in some unsavoury places I admit.
Starbuckone, Im not sure why you think it was illegal to shoot a rat, I have shot hundreds in peoples house (with an air pistol) there are circumstances where it is the best option.
Rats do not attack people or go for their throats, they never ever grow to the size of cats, not even half the size!!
They will run up your leg if you corner one, however it is highley unlikely you would ever be able to do that and they just see your leg as a means of escape.
I have walked into deserted chicken house and stores rooms and been confronted with literally thousands of rats, within a few seconds there isnt a rat to be seen.
I love rats, they are great creatures and a great part of our wildlife.
NO No No No!!!!!! do not use glue boards!!!! they are evil and nasty things, I have seen what happens when a rat get stuck to one of these devices. The rat had chewed off two legs and his tail to try to get away, there is absolutely no humanity in that, sickening!! Glue boards should be illegal!!
I would strongly advise not to use a terrier, I have also seen the aftermath from that, yes the terrier caught the rat, it then run around the lounge chewing and grinding the rat, tossing it and rolling around it, the terrier would not be caught until it had completely covered all furnishings with with rat blood.
Rats are not dirty actually, they do live in some unsavoury places I admit.
Starbuckone, Im not sure why you think it was illegal to shoot a rat, I have shot hundreds in peoples house (with an air pistol) there are circumstances where it is the best option.
Rats do not attack people or go for their throats, they never ever grow to the size of cats, not even half the size!!
They will run up your leg if you corner one, however it is highley unlikely you would ever be able to do that and they just see your leg as a means of escape.
I have walked into deserted chicken house and stores rooms and been confronted with literally thousands of rats, within a few seconds there isnt a rat to be seen.
I love rats, they are great creatures and a great part of our wildlife.
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^^^ lol, says the man who despatched one to the great rat run in the sky recently!!!
I grew up in the country so I am used to there being rats around. Wouldn't want one in my house though. I thought with having chickens I might get rats, but I suspect with four cats constantly on the prowl, they steer clear.
I grew up in the country so I am used to there being rats around. Wouldn't want one in my house though. I thought with having chickens I might get rats, but I suspect with four cats constantly on the prowl, they steer clear.
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A favourite author of mine, Brian Plummer ex president of the Kennel Club and rat hunter extrordinair told the story in his book "Tales of a rat hunting man"
"I was so enthralled with my new found friend that I nodded without even a haggle. He reached over and took my huge hob ferret out of it's 'liner box' and thrust it down inside his shirt to where the last rat lay huddled, sandwiched between his Boy's Brigade belt and his distended beer gut. A battle suddenly broke out and Fred Cleaver's (as my new found friend was called) shirt bubbled and boiled like tight trousers on a fat lady. The battle finally subsided and the ferret began to crunch it's way into the rat. Smears of blood began to appear in Cleaver's shirt,'Any family?' I asked, wondering whether the plague, salmonella, or God knows what had carried them off. 'Me wife's left me,' he said stonily. 'How strange', said my photographer friend sarcastically, but the point was totally missed." Classic!!!
"I was so enthralled with my new found friend that I nodded without even a haggle. He reached over and took my huge hob ferret out of it's 'liner box' and thrust it down inside his shirt to where the last rat lay huddled, sandwiched between his Boy's Brigade belt and his distended beer gut. A battle suddenly broke out and Fred Cleaver's (as my new found friend was called) shirt bubbled and boiled like tight trousers on a fat lady. The battle finally subsided and the ferret began to crunch it's way into the rat. Smears of blood began to appear in Cleaver's shirt,'Any family?' I asked, wondering whether the plague, salmonella, or God knows what had carried them off. 'Me wife's left me,' he said stonily. 'How strange', said my photographer friend sarcastically, but the point was totally missed." Classic!!!
I too have read all the posts. It has made enthralling (and entertaining!!!!) reading,and was hoping by the time I got to the end, you had managed to get rid of your 'visitor'.Please let us all know the outcome. I have also had experience of rats, but they were outside and were the result of my neighbour having a broken sewer pipe underground. Horrible, dirty things, YEUK. Good luck....
Hello???
Nice to see you all guffawing at my misery! Rotten buggers!!
Council are coming up tomorrow morning, work not too chuffed about it, as ive had to tell i wont be in till after lunch, but hah, like I care!
They're charging me 25 for the privilege too :-(
Not quite sure what they'll do? Put poison down? I'm hoping he'll come in with a sub machine gun and dispatch it pronto, but I can't see that happening.
Wish me luck....when you've all stopped laughing that is!
Nice to see you all guffawing at my misery! Rotten buggers!!
Council are coming up tomorrow morning, work not too chuffed about it, as ive had to tell i wont be in till after lunch, but hah, like I care!
They're charging me 25 for the privilege too :-(
Not quite sure what they'll do? Put poison down? I'm hoping he'll come in with a sub machine gun and dispatch it pronto, but I can't see that happening.
Wish me luck....when you've all stopped laughing that is!
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