Strawberry Floating Rats
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Carlos
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I am need of the old GR hivemind:
There is a rat living under the decking in my neighbours garden that L-shapes onto mine (I live near the corner) and it is popping out of a gap in the fence and getting into my black wheelie bin. I tried weighing down the lid with a huge paving slab but it still gets in via a design flaw in the lid of my bin. The council laid down a poison box behind the bin/in front of the rat hole and the last time the guy came to check it all the poison has been eaten. Today was bin day and I saw the little blighter popping out of his hole looking for his morning scraps (implying there might be more than 1...
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Now I have finally seen it I am tempted to take matters into my own hands by filling the empty wheelie big with 1' of water and a few nuts and letting it come in and drown itself. My only qualm with this is that I am incredibly squeamish and would need the council to come and dispose of the body, which I assume they would do anyway. If there is more than 1 then this might get all of them at once.
My other plan is to keep the bin around the front of the house and then see if it just eats all the poison as its main food source is gone but I worry this will make it look further afield for food instead, bringing it closer to my house which I don't want.
Can anyone who has delt with this sort of thing in the past offer advice on a solution? Am I better off just letting the poison the council has put down do its job and just leaving the bin near the hole so it doesn't go far?
There is a rat living under the decking in my neighbours garden that L-shapes onto mine (I live near the corner) and it is popping out of a gap in the fence and getting into my black wheelie bin. I tried weighing down the lid with a huge paving slab but it still gets in via a design flaw in the lid of my bin. The council laid down a poison box behind the bin/in front of the rat hole and the last time the guy came to check it all the poison has been eaten. Today was bin day and I saw the little blighter popping out of his hole looking for his morning scraps (implying there might be more than 1...
)Now I have finally seen it I am tempted to take matters into my own hands by filling the empty wheelie big with 1' of water and a few nuts and letting it come in and drown itself. My only qualm with this is that I am incredibly squeamish and would need the council to come and dispose of the body, which I assume they would do anyway. If there is more than 1 then this might get all of them at once.
My other plan is to keep the bin around the front of the house and then see if it just eats all the poison as its main food source is gone but I worry this will make it look further afield for food instead, bringing it closer to my house which I don't want.
Can anyone who has delt with this sort of thing in the past offer advice on a solution? Am I better off just letting the poison the council has put down do its job and just leaving the bin near the hole so it doesn't go far?
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kazanova_Frankenstein
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Vermilion
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Preezy
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Yeah that's a good point, Ironhide, and one of the reasons why I haven't tried to poison the mole that is currently destroying my back garden. Would much rather blunt-trauma the thing than risk just making it and other animals in the vicinity suffer.
Trying to catch it so I can biff it on the noggin' is the real challenge though
Trying to catch it so I can biff it on the noggin' is the real challenge though
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kazanova_Frankenstein
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Vermilion wrote:kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:Just make friends with the rat.
Not their finest hour
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kazanova_Frankenstein
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kazanova_Frankenstein
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Balladeer
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Preezy wrote:Yeah that's a good point, Ironhide, and one of the reasons why I haven't tried to poison the mole that is currently destroying my back garden. Would much rather blunt-trauma the thing than risk just making it and other animals in the vicinity suffer.
Trying to catch it so I can biff it on the noggin' is the real challenge though
See: Animals of Farthing Wood and Redwall have meant that if I had a garden, I’d be leaving the mole treats and letting it destroy whatever it wanted in return for the odd night-time picture.
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Preezy
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Balladeer wrote:Preezy wrote:Yeah that's a good point, Ironhide, and one of the reasons why I haven't tried to poison the mole that is currently destroying my back garden. Would much rather blunt-trauma the thing than risk just making it and other animals in the vicinity suffer.
Trying to catch it so I can biff it on the noggin' is the real challenge though
See: Animals of Farthing Wood and Redwall have meant that if I had a garden, I’d be leaving the mole treats and letting it destroy whatever it wanted in return for the odd night-time picture.
If I can catch the strawberry floater it is going to either get stabbed with a pitchfork, or have its head stoved in with a big hammer. No mercy
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