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in the garden, saw it this morning eating seeds and nuts from under the bird feeders. How do I get rid of it? We live in a development were the gardens are landscaped and communal so poison is not a good option...any ideas

shoot it ?

** stands on the desk screaming **

Its a big un! about the size of a kitten...actually if it wasn't vermin it looks quite a beautiful animal

Rat traps

Contact your local council

PS. could be an escaped pet!! So better of not splatting

think Julia in sussex could be a handy person to know........

I have a rat too -my ex-husband- if anyone would like to bring a shovel and splat him they are more than welcome!!!

Jackie

LOL Jackie

Like that one!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOO if your offering up ex husbands can I offer mine....lol

Hmmm! that sounds good.
A pride of lions......
a flock of birds......
A splatter of ex husbands....
LOL

Poison every time. Do people drink a lot of wine where you live?

We live in the country, near the railway line and opposite a grain store, rats here are a permenant problem, Look for rat runs on grass areas, they are usually quite easy to spot, they run in lines and usually look a different colour in the grass. They do like nice soft soil check flower beds for holes. You can now get a bait that only kills mice and rats, so it's safer than the old types. If you put the bait in plastic bags and tie with a knot, then stuff it down all rats holes you find and then cover them with stones if you must. These should be checked daily and if the bait has gone put some more down, I have had to do this up to 25 times, believe me you will have a lot more than 1!

You aint just feeding the birds mate ! Birds dont need feeding in this weather there is plenty of natural food about.

Our local paper had a thing in about still feeding the birds this cold weather to help them survive.
Colin, maybe our ratty has moved to your area, he hasn't been around for at least a month or more, we would know as any bird food dropped stays where it is till the birds come back for it, whereas before he would be seen hop skipping and jumping across the grass back to his hidey holes, sometimes tripping over the piece of ham fat or whatever if it was a longish bit. He was really funny to watch. O.h. put poison in a trap we had when we had rats before but all he did was scoop soil into it to cover the poison lol He made lots of holes under the shed which o.h. kept filling up with stones and nasty things and blocking off the areas. He was quite cute actually considering I hate rats, and I had been watching him for about six months, didn't tell o.h. at first till he spotted him one day.
Lizx

Years ago I had an aviary. When I changed my birds food always put left over seed on bird table for wild birds. I then got a rat feeding under the bird table. I called the rat man & I had to stop putting the seed out for the wild birds. He told me that if you put poison down, then the rats have access to sunflower seeds, which they had, they (sunflower seeds) are an antidote to the poison. I think it is vit. K5 that is in them. He told me that as long as they had access to the sunflower seeds the poison would'nt work.
Hilary.

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i have the rat man coming again today this is the 4th
week on the trot
ive shot 2 and hes been baiting the traps he left
know more feeding the birds for me he says thats whats caused it all the bird seed dropping out of the feeders

call the council they are very helpfull

good luck

julia x

ps i could come and try shooting them for you ?

We had rats where i used to work in the garden.The rat catcher came and he threw down pinkish red (like soap powder capsules) down and we never seen any after this. Annie

julia of sussex
Could you come and shoot the pigeons in our garden please?
Dee x

no wont shoot pigeons i like those

rat man been here and put more bait down

havent seen any for a while but they take the bait away within a couple of hours of him leaving so they
are still around