Rats

[Ariel Badger]

With the mild winter rats seem to have been booming in numbers with no hard freeze to keep them at bay. We are over run with them and even the feral cats seem to have gave up trying to catch them. I have them under decking and have laid poison and shot five, is anyone else in need of the Pied Piper?
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[duhawkz]

Could give some of these a try

https://www.rense.com/general27/ram.htm

Om nom nom
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[Ariel Badger]

I used to eat rats in Africa but they were nice clean bush rat not the sewer rats we get in Brum.
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[stinkwheel]

I had some trouble with rats a couple of years back but I shot a few and word seemed to get round.

If there is nothing for them to eat, there is no reason for them to be there so remove any sources of food as a start-off. Our main trouble was bird food and feeders. Rat-proofed the feed storage, switched to anti-squirrel feeders.

Any neighbours have pigeons/poultry? These are a rat magnet.
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[Joncrete Cungle]

I have the cage trap and fen traps out 365. Shoot the dumb rats with my Falcon air rifle.

[Bunny Lingus]

[doggone]

Our winters won't bother them even in a more severe one, thye don't live outside.
Wouldn't be surprised if they are immune to the common poisons.
They aren't immune to air rifle pellets and terriers though.
The best plan is to do away with the places they hide out (like under decking)

[Groove]

I noticed one crossing the street the other day whilst i was sitting at some traffic lights in the car. A car came the opposite way over the rat but the rat was central so didnt get squashed.

After the car had gone over it the rat had gone No sign of it anywhere.

Only explanation, alien rat.
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[skinny]

Rats love a nice bit of decking I would never have it for that reason, And the fact it looks gash
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[defblade]

Our rat problem (we keep chickens, so we get rats) dropped suddenly after I made myself a nightsight for my air rifle
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[ZebraDriver]

We used to keep chickens and lived next door to a riding stable. We always had a few rats about and I used to kill a couple each night with an air rifle. Then I started to notice that there seemed to be more and more of them each night....

A phone call to the council and we had the exterminator guy out (our local council used to send out the guy FOC if it was rats). A few weeks of poison baits later and the problem had gone. On his last visit I talked to the guy asking how much of an infestation we'd had and was astounded when he said that there had probably been somewhere around 100 of the buggers.

[5v3d3b0]

We got rats in our student house last year, could hear the fuckers scurrying around inside the walls next to my head while I was in bed. Gf was not impressed we used some rat poison from tesco and it definitely got rid of them. We got a lot of flies for a while though cause they must have died in the walls

[chris-red]

You need a Jack Russell

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[Furrybiker]

Youngest greyhound bitch has brought in three rats in the last couple of weeks. She just drops them on the carpet and the old one gets up and gives them a little munch. I expect by that time they are almost dead from shock, as was I when the first one hit the floor in front of me!

[Bunny Lingus]

We had 'em, fucking loads of 'em. The place was a dirty old squat so I didn't really care. They couldn't get into my room 'cos I blocked all the holes in the floor up. Some of the lads built traps & the best one was a large bucket half filled with water with a tin can covered in peanut butter that revolved on a spit placed above. Once the rat got on the can, it would spin & the rat dropped into the bucket... Well that was the theory anyway. Apparently, the water stops the rat jumping out. i heard that they was letting them go afterwards so probably the rats thought it was just some silly game.
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[Llama-Farmer]

We used to get loads of them cos we live opposite a park where there is the pond and river.

Tumble dryer is down in the cellar so up and down there a few times a week and we wouldn't go more than about a week without seeing one.

I remember when my sister got a pet rabbit and cos it was still young and winter we had to keep it in the garage as it wasn't old enough to cope with the cold, and they used to be attracted to the smell of spilt rabbit food. The fuckers were about twice the size of the rabbit... they were like bloody Splinter from TMNT.
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[Fisty]

The farmer down the road gets rat in his hay barn. He drives his fork lift in, lifts up a few bales then this pair go in!

https://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn82/mr_fisty/IMG_0743.jpg

The trouble is Porky does not shake them hard enough and we have to finish the odd injured rat off with the heel of a boot.

The record between my pair and the farmers pair is 109 rats in less than an hour. For our help he pays the dogs in cooked rabbit and pays me with a brace of pheasants!
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[Bunny Lingus]

Hah! When I saw your photo it made me think of the gunsmith in Terminator...

Clerk: You know your weapons, buddy. Any one of these is ideal for home defense. So uh, which will it be?

Terminator: All.
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

Not keen on the recipe suggestion, but Sid just found a dead rat in our yard. We're not too worried as we live near a supermarket and a river. There's loads of them over there and they don't normally come as far as our place.

However as the corpse lies (in a placcy bag) in our dustbin, my thoughts have turned to pranks. Any suggestions for things we can do with a dead rat? Speed is of the essence as the bin is in direct sunlight and won't be emptied until Thursday!

I quite fancy placing it under a table in a restaurant we endured the other week but it's miles away!
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