rat saga

You know rats can climb?  
ian

I know that rats can climb but they don't like to be exposed for long, I have not seen the rats for 6 days now so I think the poison that I put out in the bait boxes has done the trick.
The mesh around the bottom of the fences is more of a preventive measure for the future

The rats are back, they are not coming in under the fence they are under the shed but I have bought some more poison wax blocks and I am putting it  out making sure that they are not available to the hedgehogs, I put them down the hole then block it off with a slab.I put a humane wire cage trap out with a bit of pork on the hook and placed it in a position where I thought was safe and that the hedgehogs could not get to, I was wrong, I went out to check the trap and found a hedgehog in it,
It was not hurt so I got it out and placed it in the hedgehog box. It was at its food bowl that same night. No more traps
    Duncan

The 2 poison sachets that I put into a hole under the shed has gone and I replenished it, and a hole the hole at the back of the shed which had 3 poison blocks has gone, 2 more sachets of pasta put in there and the holes blocked off once more, either they are immune to the poison or there is a lot more of them than I thought, Note; the name for a gathering of rats is "A Mischief" 

I'll give em mischief, yeahh!
       Duncan
 

I agree about terriers. In a contained space a few Jack Russells/Borders/Patterdales would deal with most rats and, I think, the general disturbance would cause any not caught to leave.

Unfortunately you rats have place under the shed. Do you know any one with a ferret?

Dave

Having kept ferret’s I would not recommend using them, the standard method was to smoke them out using a length of hose attached to an engine exhaust pipe with a couple of terriers standing by something like jack Russell’s. Failing that a paraffin soaked rag wrapped around a stick is placed down the hole and lit, leaving the terriers to do the rest. We also use to another method and probably the best but this is not recommended unless one really knows what they are doing.

Note

For obvious never use petrol!   


Alan