Got home this evening.........a rat in the garden.

[Knocky's Nose]

Probably a stupid question but what do you do with a live rat then if you're not allowed to release it ? Are we really expected to kill it ?

You probably have to go through a council run process of applying to kill it, having it surveyed, filling out some forms, filling out some more forms, paying a fee, then having to pay for health and safety to come round, buying some totally excessive protective gear, and... by the time you've jumped through all the hoops, the rat will have died of old age, or boredom.

Bend at the knees. Etc....

 

[ArfurW8]

Probably a stupid question but what do you do with a live rat then if you're not allowed to release it ? Are we really expected to kill it ?

Drowning it in a water butt would probably be a clean and and efficient way.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Get a jack russell.Job done

Theoretically ... the correct answer. But a Jack Russell like ours is such a lazy git that he would be unlikely to catch or kill any rats. Rats are, however, reasonably intelligent and they might well disappear somewhere else, once they realise there is a dog around the place.

 

[jakarta]

Probably a stupid question but what do you do with a live rat then if you're not allowed to release it ? Are we really expected to kill it ?

Do you play cricket? A good Duncan Fearnley is the tool...

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Drowning it in a water butt would probably be a clean and and efficient way.

I rather like this solution but wouldn't the rat just run up the drainpipe ?

 

[ofco8]

Well, the rat box and bait are now in position, just inside the shed it ran into last night. Will check the food situation, in the box, in a couple of days.

Will take it from there!!!

 

[Knocky's Nose]

I'm enjoying this thread. It's like Eastenders, but interesting...

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Well, the rat box and bait are now in position, just inside the shed it ran into last night. Will check the food situation, in the box, in a couple of days.

Will take it from there!!!

Sorry but that simply will not do,we want a daily report if nothing else....thanks

 

[Wrong-Direction]

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[METALMICKY]

Do you play cricket? A good Duncan Fearnley is the tool...

Hmm But do you play him off the back or front foot? And surely a Newbery Mjolnir would be the best choice?

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Well, the rat box and bait are now in position, just inside the shed it ran into last night. Will check the food situation, in the box, in a couple of days.

Will take it from there!!!

Have you found out what food source it has been after if a neighbour is feeding the birds, then perhaps the rat should be given as a present to the guilty neighbour. I find it unbelievable how people just hang bird feeders until saturation point all around their gardens our neighbour has 12 hanging from one small tree. #clueless.

 

[Frankie]

Ratnob

 

[jakarta]

Hmm But do you play him off the back or front foot? And surely a Newbery Mjolnir would be the best choice?

The Gentleman Rhymer has the answer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSflRlHPay4

 

[Knocky's Nose]

.....our neighbour has 12 hanging from one small tree. #clueless.

Maybe he's just found a way of growing bird feeders?

 

[ArfurW8]

Any news?

 

[Raleigh Chopper]

Vermin are easily eradicated but only if you have strong leadership and a strong and stable economy.

 

[looney]

A country (not sewer) rat was running brazenly around the lawn. Any serious suggestions of how to get rid of. Not sure if there is a nest around or not.

Was it wearing a red or blue rosette?

 

[ArfurW8]

What happened with the rat?