Quote: Originally posted by Wibsey on 02/5/2016
We live next to a field, the council no longer cut the grass and it has gone wild over the last two years, the other day our dog escaped (thanks to the person that didn't bother shutting the gate after leafleting) saw her on the field chasing something....yes she was very pleased with the two rats she killed!! but now she wants to go play on there all the time.
I suspect you may have a terrier! Lola Lakie is mad for rats. When rats got in the house, we only knew because Lola was trying to dig up the kitchen floor.
We had to get the council's rat man round, and he told me that when he went to a house that had clear evidence of rats, but he couldn't find them, he went back round with his lakeland/border cross. The dog had been in the house for less than 5 minutes before he got very excited in one of the children's bedrooms. The rats were nesting under the child's built-in cabin bed.
We haven't had a dead rat on the lawn for several months now, so either there aren't many around any more or they've learned not to come in our garden.
Lol yes a border terrier! she loves a good furry or feathered chase.
Quote: Originally posted by Wibsey on 15/5/2016
Lol yes a border terrier! she loves a good furry or feathered chase.
Lol. Lola loves chickens. She knows they're dinner.
My next door neighbour has chooks and she spends a lot of time trying to peer at them through the hedge. Thankfully, we have chain link as well, so she can't get to them.
We have to watch out for ducks, too, if we're ever walking near water.
Reptiles aren't immune to her attentions, either, she has killed a fair few slowworms in the garden.
When i had the horse`s, The stables had a few rats, I found the rat holes,I got the propane bottle and the hose down the hole a good few feet,Blocked the hole up, Turned the bottle on for 30 secs, Worked a treat.
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Quote: Originally posted by Paul_B on 15/5/2016
When using traps make sure nothing but rats can get to them, especially small birds etc.
That said, either a fen trap or one of the plastic rat traps are good but they're better if you add some peanut butter as bait.
I hate these type of traps with a sprung wire which traps an animal but rarely kills clean. The owner of a property where I used to do some gardening was obsessed with rats attacking his chickens and mice eating the peas and spread these things all round the garden. More often than not I had to rescue birds and in one case a hedgehog from them...but never once did I find a rat or a mouse in one!
If a rat can get at them so can a bird, hedgehog, squirrel, badger, rabbit, pine martin, polecat, ferret...the list is endless and they lay trapped, usually by a broken leg until somebody finds them and can put them out of their misery!
I had to call the exterminator for rats once. He put out poison, which did kill them, but unfortunately they had all borrowed into the nooks and crannies so he was then not able to remove the corpese, leaving them there to decompose. Unpleasant to say the least!
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