Today I'm angry about.....

[Bruce Rioja]

And the Tetanus? Plus if rats have had access to your recycled cans (and they probably have)

If you haven't had an anti-Tetanus jab in the last 10 years you probably need to get one. And you know that in London you're never more than 30 feet from a Rat.

I have no rats in my kitchen!!

I have a few i will happily send round to eat your eggs. Opened up the eglu today and one went scampering off right under my nose. Much as i hate to do it - where can i buy rat poison from?

Can you not get humane traps instead?

[Gooner Girl]

I have a few i will happily send round to eat your eggs. Opened up the eglu today and one went scampering off right under my nose. Much as i hate to do it - where can i buy rat poison from?

Can you not get humane traps instead?

Dunno? Can I?

[Bruce Rioja]

I have a few i will happily send round to eat your eggs. Opened up the eglu today and one went scampering off right under my nose. Much as i hate to do it - where can i buy rat poison from?

Can you not get humane traps instead?

Dunno? Can I?

I think so, and then you can release them into the forest thingy bit. I can look into it if you like but can't do it 'til later.

[Gary the Enfield]

I have a few i will happily send round to eat your eggs. Opened up the eglu today and one went scampering off right under my nose. Much as i hate to do it - where can i buy rat poison from?

Can you not get humane traps instead?

Dunno? Can I?

I think so, and then you can release them into the forest thingy bit. I can look into it if you like but can't do it 'til later.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... CXrpyX2eoQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Think i'l move into the humane rat-trap business.
Buy my luminous rat-dust, it's 10p cheaper than that online !

[Gooner Girl]

I have a few i will happily send round to eat your eggs. Opened up the eglu today and one went scampering off right under my nose. Much as i hate to do it - where can i buy rat poison from?

Can you not get humane traps instead?

Dunno? Can I?

I think so, and then you can release them into the forest thingy bit. I can look into it if you like but can't do it 'til later.

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j& ... CXrpyX2eoQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks, will have a look and see whats what. Problem is we have a stream that runs very near our house so they always come back every time we get rid. Pest control said he has been out to every house in the lane because of the woods and stream near where we live - and obviously keeping chickens doesn't help either. Its more of a concern now the kids play outside too. Grrr.

[Bruce Rioja]

Thanks, will have a look and see whats what. Problem is we have a stream that runs very near our house so they always come back every time we get rid. Pest control said he has been out to every house in the lane because of the woods and stream near where we live - and obviously keeping chickens doesn't help either. Its more of a concern now the kids play outside too. Grrr.

Can you see how it's getting into and out of the eglu, GG? (other than for when it's not trotting out under your nose).

[Gooner Girl]

Thanks, will have a look and see whats what. Problem is we have a stream that runs very near our house so they always come back every time we get rid. Pest control said he has been out to every house in the lane because of the woods and stream near where we live - and obviously keeping chickens doesn't help either. Its more of a concern now the kids play outside too. Grrr.

Can you see how it's getting into and out of the eglu, GG? (other than for when it's not trotting out under your nose).

Yes, i swapped the chickens and ducks round so chickens are now in eglu with no hole in nesting box but its just burrowed into the run - i can see the hole) and is walking in through the door i think. I think i will have to go down the poision route - as much as i hate the idea and leave it down semi - permenantly til i am sure they are gone (for now) Bish - is it ok if i keep your rat trap thing or do you want it back before you move?

[Bruce Rioja]

Right, that's it. There's this ill-mannered German bastard sat straight facing me eating like a bad-mannerd pig. I've even given him my Paddington Bear special stare on two occasions now but to no avail. And, now that he appears to have finished his cement-mixer-meets-brass-band routine, the 4ucker's sat here sucking his teeth and snirching up every twenty seconds or so!!! Dirty German BASTAAAAAAAARD!!!!!!!!

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Rats are slippery little buggers, i once watched one run across the patio and squeeze itself under my shed, through a gap between the shed and the floor of no more than an inch.
Same with hedgehogs, there's a miniscule gap between our back fence that they squeeze through from the field behind.

[Gooner Girl]

Rats are slippery little buggers, i once watched one run across the patio and squeeze itself under my shed, through a gap between the shed and the floor of no more than an inch.
Same with hedgehogs, there's a miniscule gap between our back fence that they squeeze through from the field behind.

Awww, you have hedgehogs?! Swap you hedgehogs for rats?

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Yep they're ok, the Prickles family...there's a mummy daddy and baby one that come in, separately but sometimes on a family night out to the Robinson's garden We've got a security light so when they come in it flicks on and lights them up and can see them shuffling round, right past the patio doors.

But, we have rats too..and mice, and bats, and foxes. We back onto a graveyeard

[Gooner Girl]

Yep they're ok, the Prickles family...there's a mummy daddy and baby one that come in, separately but sometimes on a family night out to the Robinson's garden We've got a security light so when they come in it flicks on and lights them up and can see them shuffling round, right past the patio doors.

But, we have rats too..and mice, and bats, and foxes. We back onto a graveyeard

Awww, bet Layla loves watching them!

[ohjimmyjimmy]

She's usually in bed as it's only when it's dark that they come out !
But she watches the squirrels in a morning.

[thebish]

human traps are not always as "humane" as they first appear...

The welfare of captured rodents is covered by the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (see Box
1). This Act puts in place a duty of care for the welfare of all animals under human
control. If live traps are used they must therefore be of a suitable type (unlikely to
cause injury to the animals); they must be inspected sufficiently frequently so that
trapped animals are not at risk of water or food deprivation or to exposure. We
recommend at least twice daily, this is a compromise between what is ideal for
welfare and what is likely to be practicable. Trapped animals must be dealt with
humanely. Release of an animal elsewhere is not necessarily a humane thing to do –
translocated animals may fail to adapt to or integrate into new territory and may suffer
and die as a result (Mason and Littin, 2003). Killing is much less likely to carry a risk
of causing suffering than release in an unfamiliar area, and release of some species
may be illegal. See Box 1 for notes on the law relating to release of rodents.

[Gary the Enfield]

human traps are not always as "humane" as they first appear...

The welfare of captured rodents is covered by the Animal Welfare Act 2006 (see Box
1). This Act puts in place a duty of care for the welfare of all animals under human
control. If live traps are used they must therefore be of a suitable type (unlikely to
cause injury to the animals); they must be inspected sufficiently frequently so that
trapped animals are not at risk of water or food deprivation or to exposure. We
recommend at least twice daily, this is a compromise between what is ideal for
welfare and what is likely to be practicable. Trapped animals must be dealt with
humanely. Release of an animal elsewhere is not necessarily a humane thing to do –
translocated animals may fail to adapt to or integrate into new territory and may suffer
and die as a result (Mason and Littin, 2003). Killing is much less likely to carry a risk
of causing suffering than release in an unfamiliar area, and release of some species
may be illegal. See Box 1 for notes on the law relating to release of rodents.

Okay. So a spade round the back of the head it is, then.

Have you been for your anti-tetanus shot, yet?

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Woahhh Gary...ok so he's not been for his tetanus, no need to whack him with a spade !

[bobo the clown]

Oh, I dunno ... So long as he's humanely whacked, shirley ?

[ohjimmyjimmy]

Or lighten the mood first...'say Bish, what do you call a man with a spade on his head?'

[Bruce Rioja]

Anyway, GG, where are your mahoosive moggies when all this egg-pinchery's going on?