Rats or mice?

[AshWebster]

My dog is a ratter - he'll have a hell of a fun afternoon round your place.
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[ZebraDriver]

If you can see 20 or so of them around then you have probably got a population of nearer 100 or so. We used to have a similar situation when we kept chickens at the bottom of our garden (that backed onto a horse riding stables) ie an unlimited supply of food for the vermin.

I used to go out as it was getting dark and would get one every night with the air rifle (the noise would scatter the rest and it would be too dark by the time they came back out). I did this for a couple of weeks and soon realised that the population was increasing faster than I was culling them.


The local council took over (for free because they classify rats as vermin) and laid poison all over the place. Took more than a month to get rid of them though !

[King29]

To quote RED 2 "Look at the size of that thing!"

This ladies and gentlemen is Brian.

https://i.imgur.com/Ek49Cvj.jpg

[hellkat]

He looks like a cunt.
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[hellkat]

I got unbelievably dug out on here once by someone telling me off for putting down one of them sticky mousetrap things so that mice would get stuck on them and die of starvation.

I ended up getting a cat (Lawrence), and despite being really quite a small cat, what a brilliant mouser he is, mice, birds, in fact he is a ratter, as well: he goes for nests of baby rats and brings them home to crunch their skulls, eat their brains and rip their guts out. He always leaves me a snout and something that vaguely resembles a kidney.

Filling a wheelie bin full of acid is no less humane than having a ratter and letting it rip their guts out while they are still warm.

Rats are more verminous than mice, even.
Ugh. Brian makes me want to hurl.
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[Ste]

[hellkat]

And as for Bhud, saying the ones at Pets R Us or whatever, having had the rattitude bred out of them.

Yeah, fucking dream on, matey.

Come the apocalypse those "domesticated pet rats" will be down the Jobcentre looking for rat work, just like all the others.
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[Ste]

[King29]

[Ste]

[Riejufixing]

[Riejufixing]

For general interest, species and numbers prey "brought home" by cats (see appendix):

https://www.mammal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Domestic-Cat-Predation-on-Wildlife.pdf

Not very good at rat-catching in general. Small fast dogs are much better, the best I had was a small mongrel bitch which was very fast indeed, got 7 out of a pile of hardcore being moved in no time

[DOS]

Kill the neighbour and Brian the rat.

Stick the rat in her mouth as a warning to others.

[Sister Sledge]

Kin ell Brian does gym! Definitely alpha rat that one. Mind you, kill him and there's two thousand waiting to grab his spot.

The rat infestation sounds awesome. Awesome as long as it stays down there.
Shame you don't have a wildlife cam: Put it beside your back door (of the house, not your bottom) and watch in horror as rats try every night to invade your property.
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[Bubbs]

I’m loving this thread, needs more pictures though.

I fucking hate mice. I used to be the person who would say “Awww, don’t kill them, they are innocent little beings”… That was until I had a mouse infestation while living in Brixton. Those fuckers tormented me. I would be trying to sleep and one would run over my face, or they’d be next to my bed on the side board chewing on my evening snack, or they would just be squeaking and scurrying around the room. Soon all you can hear is these little fuckers… I got to a point where I slept with all sorts of blunt objects and as soon as I spotted them I would be after them like commando.

When I moved back to god’s country and built my new house, I had another mouse infestation. This time it was all sorts of inhumane traps, my kill count was 53. I got inventive with the home made traps where I managed to drown them.

Acid all the way I say… fucking horrible things.
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[King29]

Found 6 dead rats this morning. The blue pills are working, sadly Brian is alive and well. He's special, she gives him warm milk at night, she thinks it's for him but really I suppose they all wolf it down.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Brian looks more like a Brianetta. Rats have massive bollocks and I don't see any in the picture.
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[King29]

[grr666]

"Brian" is pregnant with the next batch. Rats can knock out a new litter every 25 odd days but tend to keep
to being pregnant about 8 times a year. Typically 6 to 8 babbers per litter (x8) per year per female rat. So conservative
figures assuming just 10 breeding females = approximately 640 new rats every year of which about half will be female.

Edit - I should add that each offspring will reach sexual maturity and will be willing and able to breed at about 5 weeks from birth.
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[King29]

Feeding time.

https://i.imgur.com/h04ghYm.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/uJJHC53.jpg

[Bhud]

[Ste]

lol, I don't have my post anymore, the reply had more info in it than was necessary because as you say, the police aren't interested. Smartwater, Datatag, Alphadot and now the Carole Nash DNA+ thing aren't going to deter someone from stealing your bike.

Rogerborg did an FOI request to Scotchplod a few years ago to find out how many bikes or parts they'd recovered thanks to Datatag et al and they didn't have any information about it. They don't even record bike thefts separately from car thefts.

It's of very slight value to the insurance company as there's a tiny chance that they might get the bike or some parts of the bike back however many years down the line and then be able to recover some of their losses from your insurance claim.

Back to rats... lol @ feeding time. You're going to end up having to put hundreds of dead rats in your wheelie bin.

[Sister Sledge]

I bet if you lift a flag stone you'll find a tunnel.

Few years back I did a monster hedge job near Stanley in County Durham. (Stanley is the pits)
Two big gardens divided by said monster hedge. I was up ladders and looked into next doors garden and in the middle was this huge pale tower of flowing shapes. It looked so strange.
Later on I asked the owners of the garden I was in what that weird thing was - it looked like modern art.
Seems next door owned a fish chip shop and they were attempting to use birds to get rid of waste chip shop produce: Old solid grease, cold chips, bad fish etc etc. It was a huge pale pile of congealed grease and waste and rats had discovered it..
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