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Just had a right shock!!! I was washing up when OH asked me what the thing was on the bird feeder - i thought squirrel? but no..........RAT :x OH ran out with big stick - Let Ozzy and Vinnie out but the thing escaped!! Vinnie didnt even see it run past him (he was too busy chasing Oz) :b Thing is, should we take all the bird food away? or just the feeder it was sitting in (one of those with a cage round) ..............should I leave home until its gone :sweating: ......... (w00t) anyone want a lodger (me OR the rat)??

 

[Janimal]

There will always be rats when theres food about. Strangely enough the Animal feeed place right across the road from

us has a big big problem right now and hes having to put poison down its so bad. They also live in the animal feed shed on the farm where I

work..lots of traps and poison needed there too.

My dogs would nab one single one....Oscar is brill and has actually caught a few now. :thumbsup:

Id put a cage round the feeder if I were you, but rats are very crafty they will find a way in surely by hook or crook... or another way is to get a rat trap

cage with food inside...someone may loan you one or you could hire one.....this way you could either let it off somewhere else...which I wouldnt...or get someone

to kill it for you.

 

[haycroft]

i hate rats..unfortually wherever theres food they'l be rats...you'l be surprise how many rats live close by..ive seen many in the day

i know we have them in the garden..Bow has caught several,we also have chickens and clean up as much as i can

we have a little mouse in the house which we're trying to get rid of...how its getting in i just dunno..dirty creatures

some councils will come and destroy if you see lots of them but rarely come out if only the one is spotted

 

[gilliwigs]

We've got a rat out in the little garden at the back of the kitchen and it was always after the bird food. So I moved the bird table round to the large front garden and now it's all pinched by a squirrel!

Once I walked into the bathroom upstairs (we very rarely use it as we have a smaller one by our bedroom). Such a shock when the rat ran across the bathroom floor! (w00t) We think it must have come up the drainpipe. We bought a couple of those noise emitters which are meant to scare them off. They seemed to work for ages but now we have a mouse coming in to the kitchen - I saw it the other day :blink: Not sure if the dogs would be much use though even if they were to see it! :-

 

[oakmoorehill]

We used to live opposite an old Michelin factory. Some years ago it was demolished The whol area was infested with rats some were as big as cats. At the time we had our GSD, one day I was in the kitchen watching him in the garden through the window. I saw him go to the back of the shed that he had open so he could sit inside. A great big rat was eating his tea and he was sat there watching it.

I quickly let the whippets out thinking it would run off. No the great daft whippets looked at it and ran back in. The rat just carried on scoffing Beethovens fooduntil I went out with a brush and chased it away. Needless to say Beethoven's food was thrown in the bin his dished disinfected and rinsed and he was given resh foo with me standing guard as he ate it. It was months before the area was free from rats or to the degree that city areas have rats and not millions of them around.

Sorry but you can keep your rat we had enough of them then and don't intend to repeat it.

 

[Lal]

Loads of people I have spoken to recently are having problems with mice and rats! I got used to them on the farm, am still freaked out by them but they are a fact of life, if there is food for them then they will be there! I miss my old JRT, Trixie could smell a rat a mile off and would go into a building and clear it within minutes! Rifle has caught a couple round the farm where we kept the horses but emerged one day with one hanging from his nose!! Hefty vets bill later.... we are both more wary now :blink:

I know there are so called 'humane' poisons etc but not really an option if you are feeding wildlife and have other pets around. Can't offer any advice other than to see if you can befriend someone with a good terrier. :luck:

 

[moonglow]

They say you're never more than 20 feet away from a rat (w00t)

 

[jinnyfizz]

Ella caught a rat last week - didn't eat it, just brought it to the back door (w00t)

They always seem to appear when the weather is wet. At other times they're happy to stay out in the countryside but, soon as there's rain, I can guarantee they'll start burrowing into the barn to look for food :angry:

 

[Lal]

They say you're never more than 20 feet away from a rat (w00t)

Should have known that, I was married to one :teehee:

 

[Janimal]

They say you're never more than 20 feet away from a rat (w00t)

A very old saying...and a very true one...!

 

[trac]

I hate rats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry but i do ,I cant watch them on the TV :sweating: we had problems with them a few years ago ,they got under the floorboards and into the loft ,the noise was horrid ,gives me nightmares just thinking about it

 

[June Jonigk]

They say you're never more than 20 feet away from a rat (w00t)

Should have known that, I was married to one :teehee:

(w00t) :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Lal]

I can remember being stood on a bucket plaiting a horse up, looked up and there was a rat sat on the partition wall of the stable looking straight at me! (w00t) Me and the bucket went flying!!

 

[Janimal]

Tracy you will cringe when I tell you this story...and Im a very clean person btw... :sweating:

 

When I lived in my old house I used to leave the back door open a lot....and we lived right by the river.......anyway with a cat and also a whippet then didnt think that a problem

until one day I found a half eaten slice of bread behind the Toaster...yes really...and wondered how it got there... :unsure:

 

Anyway next day I was making breakfast and saw a flurry up on the top of the kitchen cupboards...when I climbed up to look there was a massive Rat

sitting looking back at me... (w00t)

 

Anway it ended up jumping down behind my fridge freezer......hubby was working away so me and my mam armed with brush shanks managed to hit it out.....

straight into the jaws of my old Whippet Chip...who nabbed it right behind the neck and killed in one blow! That was really the first time Id encountered a whippet killing a Rat...

so clean and fast I was amazed....and really thankful too... :thumbsup:

 

Needless to say I spent months scrubbing the kitchen worktops....arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (w00t)

 

[littlenell]

:x :x :x you lot are not helping :x :x :lol: :lol:

 

[trac]

Tracy you will cringe when I tell you this story...and Im a very clean person btw... :sweating:  

When I lived in my old house I used to leave the back door open a lot....and we lived right by the river.......anyway with a cat and also a whippet then didnt think that a problem

until one day I found a half eaten slice of bread behind the Toaster...yes really...and wondered how it got there... :unsure:

 

Anyway next day I was making breakfast and saw a flurry up on the top of the kitchen cupboards...when I climbed up to look there was a massive Rat

sitting looking back at me... (w00t)

 

Anway it ended up jumping down behind my fridge freezer......hubby was working away so me and my mam armed with brush shanks managed to hit it out.....

straight into the jaws of my old Whippet Chip...who nabbed it right behind the neck and killed in one blow! That was really the first time Id encountered a whippet killing a Rat...

so clean and fast I was amazed....and really thankful too... :thumbsup:

 

Needless to say I spent months scrubbing the kitchen worktops....arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (w00t)

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Lal]

Tracy you will cringe when I tell you this story...and Im a very clean person btw... :sweating:  

When I lived in my old house I used to leave the back door open a lot....and we lived right by the river.......anyway with a cat and also a whippet then didnt think that a problem

until one day I found a half eaten slice of bread behind the Toaster...yes really...and wondered how it got there... :unsure:

 

Anyway next day I was making breakfast and saw a flurry up on the top of the kitchen cupboards...when I climbed up to look there was a massive Rat

sitting looking back at me... (w00t)

 

Anway it ended up jumping down behind my fridge freezer......hubby was working away so me and my mam armed with brush shanks managed to hit it out.....

straight into the jaws of my old Whippet Chip...who nabbed it right behind the neck and killed in one blow! That was really the first time Id encountered a whippet killing a Rat...

so clean and fast I was amazed....and really thankful too... :thumbsup:

 

Needless to say I spent months scrubbing the kitchen worktops....arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (w00t)

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha ha ha!! Shouldn't laugh really but I have this vision of you running round with brush shanks! I remember my old Nan chasing a mouse like that but armed with the shovel from the coal fire (w00t) she got it too!!

I'm phobic about birds in the house, my kids find it hilarious!

 

[jinnyfizz]

Tracy you will cringe when I tell you this story...and Im a very clean person btw... :sweating:  

When I lived in my old house I used to leave the back door open a lot....and we lived right by the river.......anyway with a cat and also a whippet then didnt think that a problem

until one day I found a half eaten slice of bread behind the Toaster...yes really...and wondered how it got there... :unsure:

 

Anyway next day I was making breakfast and saw a flurry up on the top of the kitchen cupboards...when I climbed up to look there was a massive Rat

sitting looking back at me... (w00t)

 

Anway it ended up jumping down behind my fridge freezer......hubby was working away so me and my mam armed with brush shanks managed to hit it out.....

straight into the jaws of my old Whippet Chip...who nabbed it right behind the neck and killed in one blow! That was really the first time Id encountered a whippet killing a Rat...

so clean and fast I was amazed....and really thankful too... :thumbsup:

 

Needless to say I spent months scrubbing the kitchen worktops....arhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (w00t)

OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha ha ha!! Shouldn't laugh really but I have this vision of you running round with brush shanks! I remember my old Nan chasing a mouse like that but armed with the shovel from the coal fire (w00t) she got it too!!

I'm phobic about birds in the house, my kids find it hilarious!

Years ago, my cat (RIP Coochie) used to bring live birds into the house for me.

It was a real "catch 22" situation because if I approached her to take the bird she would tighten her grip and probably puncture the bird's skin, but if I left her alone, she would put the bird down and then it would be flying around the house (w00t)

I used to run around opening all the windows and doors wide so that the poor little things wouldn't fly into the glass in their panic to get away!!

 

[Janimal]

Ive had all sorts of live things in the house too Jane, due to the cats... (w00t)

Starlings, sparrow...mice you name it, even a baby rabbit .... :lol: Cats can be a bloody nightmare sometimes...

 

[whippetmad]

I hate wild rats :x but like pet rats :wub: ,don't ask me why :wacko: :wacko: