Rat in the garden - what am i gunna do.....

[mudcow007]

So last week, seen a rat running along the tops our our wheelie bins, it fell off into a bucket an started sloshing around then scarped under my shed.

Seen two more last nights as i went to take the bins out

Phoned the council who have said they will be out next Monday.

Has anyone ever dealt with Roland's?

I do have an airgun, but worried it will rip them to bits - which i will then need to scoop up

[Pjay]

Rats in residential areas generally come from a broken drain/sewer. The council will come out and look for said break and either get it sorted, or tell the land owner to get it sorted.

If it's a stray then kill it with death and happy days.

[mudcow007]

Well looking yesterday around the garden i have found holes under our fence

The house whos garden backs onto ours have built a fence with a 2-3ft gap between ours an theres and have then threw garden waste - weeds etc in the gap.

So i reckon our little rodent friends have been using that as a run.

God knows how we will sort it out though

[arry]

Petrol, match, and a new fence.

[Alpineandy]

[Ste]

You could try calling private companies like Rent-o-Kill to see how much it'll cost for them to deal with it instead of the council.

[arry]

[Ste]

Yup, I assume that the OP can't identify what's attracting them(?) and so I'd expect the rent-o-kill person to help with that as well as killing the existing rats.

[thepuma]

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[Ste]

They don't hate you, they just think you're a crap hunters.

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[hedgehugger]

Last batch of rats that moved in to the garden all stemmed from one pregnant female. AAhh look at the cute little furries. Not gonna kill 'em, I'll wait 'til they move away! Then they were growing and not moving on.
I tried a humane trap. Rattus not interested, nope.
Managed to catch a live one in a swing bin with peanut butter and a ramp. Released it in the local woodland thing nearby.
Chickens killed one.
Sad to say I poisoned the rest. I am a rat murderer. I did ask them nicely, and gave them 'til the end of the week to move, but they didn't listen.
Dogs, cats and air rifles or poison, whatever floats yer boat. (they do say poison is a woman's choice of murder, but I still feel guilty about it!)

[Monkeywrenche...]

If you want a better chance with the air rifle, put down some bait they they can't carry away, like a big blob of peanut butter within sight of a good hiding spot.

Make sure there's a really good backstop behind it and practice shooting 1p sized targets from your hiding spot to your bait.

Now put out the bait get hid and when they stop to eat the bait, 1 in the head. if you hit them they'll drop.
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[stinkwheel]

I had rats coming over the fence from next door. They didn't believe me.

Shot a big fucker with the airgun and showed it to the lady of the house. Their backyard chickens were gone and the coop burned by the following weekend.
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[t121anf]

https://liverpool.gov.uk/pests-pollution-and-food-hygiene/pests-and-infestation/

[mudcow007]

Cheers all.

will try a blob of peanut butter tonight an stalk em - it cant hurt, good idea about the backstop too - I doubt a T&G fence will stop my Weihrauch

updates to follow...

[Islander]

[ZebraDriver]

Council rat catcher should dispose of them FOC (they used to in Scotland anyway). Don't hang about too long, we did (I was killing them with an air rifle one at a time since they hide after you have shot the first one) by the time we called the council out he guessed that we had 60+ at the bottom of our garden.

ZD

[331X2]

Liquified cat food is like crack to them, they can't carry it away so tend to stick around where it's placed, ideal for ambushing with an air rifle.

Clean head shots with an air rifle or they'll just laugh and run off to die later and rot, they're hard as nails!

Zero sights at the range you'll be shooting at, random pot shots are for retards.

[Raffles]

Over the years, I've killed thousands of the little bastards using many different methods.
The key to ridding yourself of them permanently though is, as has been said, cleaning up your own environment.
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[Joncrete Cungle]

Remove food source, remove any junk they can shelter / nest in. Block up access points. Shoot / trap / poison the rest. Leave baited traps out for a bit after you think you snotted the last one, just incase you missed any. Cheap wireless driveway alarm can be rigged up next to bait to alert you when ratty turns up, so you don't have to sit there waiting all night.

[mudcow007]

Thats what i dont get. We dont leave food out for birds etc.

All rubbish goes in the wheelie bins - so go knows what they are eating?

Didnt get a chance to go all Rambo on them tonight - footy was on.

War is tomorrow

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

OP after he's spots the first ratty.

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[J4mes]

See if your local dog charity will let you foster a jack russell?

I use a flat headed pellets for shooting squirrels in the garden at about 15 yards and they work fine.

Certainly don't smash them to pieces!