Be afraid - be very afraid

[tim]

We have them - bigguns too but they keep mainly to under my workshop and the garden where they eat fallen bird seed. Tigger, one of our labs is very quick and gets one a week or so. We have poisoned them in the past - but they die under the w/s - not good work environment.

I think we've pretty much decided to live and let live though - we both kept rats as pets when kids so it doesn't seem right somehow and its the countryside after all.

If you do decide to do the poisoning thing though, I'd call the council - the charged £40 with as many visits as necessary through the year included.

Cheers

 

[MrJay]

Rats pose very little health risk.

Try googling Weils disease.

When looking at posts and you see text in blue, it means it's a link to another page on the internets; you can click on them. Like the link to page with Weil's disease information I included in my post. Rats get bad press, very little of it's deserved. Statistically, socks are more hazardous.

 

[ike]

Smart little beggars. In the Caribbean we used to get large families of them in the and around the house in the space of a few months if left unchecked, I mixed the poison with minced beef. No way, however smart, could they resist it!.

Used to catch the occasional (dumb) one in a trap, which afterwards got released... in the boa tank in the school biology lab. Now that was quite fascinating to watch.

Ike

 

[newt]

The Jack Russel is the natural way of extermination and it keeps them fit.

 

[Mike.C]

Mr Jay wrote,

When looking at posts and you see text in blue, it means it's a link to another page on the internets; you can click on them. Like the link to page with Weil's disease information I included in my post. Rats get bad press, very little of it's deserved. Statistically, socks are more hazardous.

Thanks for the link Mr Jay.

Cheers

Mike

 

[MrJay]

No, thank you

 

[RogerS]

A Jack Russel is very effective.

By far the best solution - ours is deadly!!! She gets very glum when she has killed them all and has to wait a few months for the next batch to appear.

Gary

Don't suppose you'd like to lend her to us? :lol:

 

[Mike.C]

Taffy wrote,

A Jack Russel is very effective.

I have never met one that doesn't have the heart of a lion, so it's no surprise that they are good ratters. In fact most terrier's at one time or another were used for killing rats and foxes.

Cheers

Mike