Rats

citizen_maine said:
Did you ask him before or after you'd paid him?
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Whilst he was here , he is from the council and we are on first name terms as he has been coming for about five years , you pay when booking it , he has no reason to give me misleading information, he said not about eating the bait but eating a rat who has eaten it , merlin loves catching them and has been fine
 
WE live in the woods, near to a new housing development. I'm constantly getting invaded. Mice are fairly easy: 4 or 5 traps combined with poison being topped up over a week a so. Rats i've had invading the loft and once they were coming in my lad;s room, ironically, to eat the food he kept for his pet rat. I sealed everything up and piled a shitload of poison in the loft and that sorted it. If there's no food source they won't come in, that's your first thing to sort.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
WE live in the woods, near to a new housing development. I'm constantly getting invaded. Mice are fairly easy: 4 or 5 traps combined with poison being topped up over a week a so. Rats i've had invading the loft and once they were coming in my lad;s room, ironically, to eat the food he kept for his pet rat. I sealed everything up and piled a shitload of poison in the loft and that sorted it. If there's no food source they won't come in, that's your first thing to sort.
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Who are you, Robin of Loxley?
 
kaz7 said:
Whilst he was here , he is from the council and we are on first name terms as he has been coming for about five years , you pay when booking it , he has no reason to give me misleading information, he said not about eating the bait but eating a rat who has eaten it , merlin loves catching them and has been fine
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If he'd told you it'd kill Merlin, would you ask him back and pay him next year?
 
kaz7 said:
Whilst he was here , he is from the council and we are on first name terms as he has been coming for about five years , you pay when booking it , he has no reason to give me misleading information, he said not about eating the bait but eating a rat who has eaten it , merlin loves catching them and has been fine
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The best poison is lead, administered with a high speed injection device often called ‘ a shotgun’
 
Saw one the size of a bull terrier last summer, by the tracks as pulling into platform 13 at Picc. They’re getting bigger and they’re getting more immune.
 
We had a rat problem at my old company and the guys in production used to put one of the extremely sticky varnishes they used on the factory floor as if they crossed it they got stuck and couldn’t move.

We came in one Monday morning to find one stuck that had gnawed off three of its legs and which was still alive. Not a very nice sight….
 
I saw one the size of a cat last year in a neighbour's garden. Horrible looking thing, she called pest control and got rid of them.

Think a neighbour not cutting the grass combined with bins being full (which hadn't been emptied in lockdown) was the main cause.
 
kaz7 said:
What sort of question is that ? The poison is in the lofts of all the houses on my side , it is not out , most of us have cats and none have been ill eating a rat or mice
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The RSPCA has a view on it, even if people don't like Cats it affects other wildlife too.

The views of your contractor are irrelevant.

https://kb.rspca.org.au/knowledge-base/what-are-the-risks-to-my-cat-or-dog-from-rat-bait/

How are dogs and cats poisoned by rat baits?​

Your dog or cat could develop rat bait poisoning if they eat rat bait directly or if they eat tissue from an animal that has consumed rat bait.

Signs of rat bait poisoning may include:

  • Obvious external signs of haemorrhage (dependent on where the bleeding is; for example bruising, bloody faeces or urine, nose bleeds, vomiting blood).
  • Lethargy
  • Weakness
  • Wobbliness
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distended abdomen from bleeding into the abdomen
  • Coughing, wheezing, or difficulty breathing from bleeding into the chest
  • pale gums from anaemia
  • Bulging of eyes from bleeding behind the eyes
  • Sudden death with no obvious clinical signs can also occur.
I know you like Cats, but the poisoner isn't going to tell you the truth it's his business.
 
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mexico1970 said:
The RSPCA has a view on it, even if people don't like Cats it affects other wildlife too.

The views of your contractor are irrelevant.

https://kb.rspca.org.au/knowledge-base/what-are-the-risks-to-my-cat-or-dog-from-rat-bait/

How are dogs and cats poisoned by rat baits?​

Your dog or cat could develop rat bait poisoning if they eat rat bait directly or if they eat tissue from an animal that has consumed rat bait.

Signs of rat bait poisoning may include:

  • Obvious external signs of haemorrhage (dependent on where the bleeding is; for example bruising, bloody faeces or urine, nose bleeds, vomiting blood).
  • Lethargy
  • Weakness
  • Wobbliness
  • Loss of appetite
  • Distended abdomen from bleeding into the abdomen
  • Coughing, wheezing, or difficulty breathing from bleeding into the chest
  • pale gums from anaemia
  • Bulging of eyes from bleeding behind the eyes
  • Sudden death with no obvious clinical signs can also occur.
I know you like Cats, but the poisoner isn't going to tell you the truth it's his business.
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What do you want me to do ? Merlin is not staying indoors and none of our cats have been poisoned , not merlin and not silva and countless others in my street
 
BlueMoonday said:
I saw one the size of a cat last year in a neighbour's garden. Horrible looking thing, she called pest control and got rid of them.

Think a neighbour not cutting the grass combined with bins being full (which hadn't been emptied in lockdown) was the main cause.
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Not a nice thing to say about your neighbour.
 
kaz7 said:
What do you want me to do ? Merlin is not staying indoors and none of our cats have been poisoned , not merlin and not silva and countless others in my street
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A domestic cat wouldn't eat a dead animal unless it was starving to death. Nor would it eat poisoned baits, they're far too intelligent for that.
I think you and Merlin can sleep easy Kaz x
 
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