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- Thread starter Naybrains
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Or Rat or 2 E ??
Naybrains
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Here's the latest: Council rat man came today, left a a few trays of bait under the shed and a bait box on the patioso i can now get the crockery back in the kitchen. He reckons most rats get attracted to gardens because of folk feeding the birds, in the trade theycall suet balls rat balls which I now understand why.
He'll be back on Tuesday to see the results.
Just been on screwfix website to see what traps they've got coz I'd still feel a great sense of satisfaction to actually murder the rat for trespassing. They've got this fancy thing that electrocutes them which I quite liked the look of, the reviews aren't great though, 40 odd quid too.
The operation continues.
He'll be back on Tuesday to see the results.
Just been on screwfix website to see what traps they've got coz I'd still feel a great sense of satisfaction to actually murder the rat for trespassing. They've got this fancy thing that electrocutes them which I quite liked the look of, the reviews aren't great though, 40 odd quid too.
The operation continues.
Basher
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Would this be the instrument of death in question Naybrains?
http://www.screwfix.com/p/procter-electronic-rat-killer/76836#
I completely understand your need to kill. Rats are horrible filthy creatures.
http://www.screwfix.com/p/procter-electronic-rat-killer/76836#
I completely understand your need to kill. Rats are horrible filthy creatures.
stevek1969
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Had one last year in the winter trying to get the guinea pigs food ,set the trap with a mars bar ,boy it loved that ,the damn thing was still moving caught in the trap, finished it of with a mash hammer over the head ,lovely jubbly we don't mess about up here.
Phil2511
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I had them coming into my roof space from next door. He'd had a nest under his shed and pulled the shed apart and obviously moved them on. Into his roof space. The house on other end of him had them in theirs too.
We both had empty roof space and was easy to see no nests in our houses. However the middle neighbour (A compulsive hoarder) wouldn't have any of it when I approached him.
So forget the traps I went to the farmers supply place nearby and ask him for the most popular bait. Let them go back into his and die and stink his house out LMAO.
We both had empty roof space and was easy to see no nests in our houses. However the middle neighbour (A compulsive hoarder) wouldn't have any of it when I approached him.
So forget the traps I went to the farmers supply place nearby and ask him for the most popular bait. Let them go back into his and die and stink his house out LMAO.
Naybrains
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They ain't dead yet.
Why the F would it feel the need to dig a hole in the gravel under the bait box???
Thought the idea is theyre meant to go through the hole in the box eat the bait then run off and die, not dig the flaming thing up.
Why the F would it feel the need to dig a hole in the gravel under the bait box???
Thought the idea is theyre meant to go through the hole in the box eat the bait then run off and die, not dig the flaming thing up.
Evesdad
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So have you actually caught or killed any rats yet?? Updates please!!
Naybrains
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Operation Ratsass Christmas update:
Naybrains 1
Rats 0
Well kinda, they seem to have gone though. Council ratman was back on Tuesday, the poison he put out last week had completely gone, so he replenished the stocks and came back on Thursday to re-check and no sign of them.
Although I seem to have got rid of them I still feel disappointed that I didn't have the trophy of a dead rat to put on show (post on here). If they return bugger using traps and poison itl be a shot gun job.
Anyway thanks for all your kind words during this ordeal it's really given me strength and belief.
CliveW
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That's how I got rid of mine! :thup:
Naybrains
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Watching Mousehunt on The BBC now, think my Rat was/is related to this Moooose!
Smarter than your average moose.
Smarter than your average moose.
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viscount17
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Hate rats with a passion. One bit my older bro when he was in his pram - I hadn't even been born but came out hating them.
My nan used to keep chickens, that's what attracted them. probably came from the wood alongside us. We always kept a cat, one or two were great rat killers, a couple of others were killed by them (mind we also lost one to gang mower).
Had a friend of a friend bought up some old farm land. He later discovered there was a barn overgrown in the wood, had a lot(!) of old cars in it - every one the family had owned from about 1912 to 1950's, parts of an old WW1 biplane and rats!
A mob of us got together, dragged out the cars and plane, then sprayed petrol inside and torched it. Waited outside with air guns, .22s, a .303, shotguns, homemade flamethrowers, flails and dogs. At the end we hand a pile of corpses nearing 3 foot - and most of the b-s got away!
My nan used to keep chickens, that's what attracted them. probably came from the wood alongside us. We always kept a cat, one or two were great rat killers, a couple of others were killed by them (mind we also lost one to gang mower).
Had a friend of a friend bought up some old farm land. He later discovered there was a barn overgrown in the wood, had a lot(!) of old cars in it - every one the family had owned from about 1912 to 1950's, parts of an old WW1 biplane and rats!
A mob of us got together, dragged out the cars and plane, then sprayed petrol inside and torched it. Waited outside with air guns, .22s, a .303, shotguns, homemade flamethrowers, flails and dogs. At the end we hand a pile of corpses nearing 3 foot - and most of the b-s got away!
DappaDonDave
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I suggest a similar set up to what this guy has made, but for rats
I suggest a similar set up to what this guy has made, but for rats
Naybrains
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They're back..and so am I!
Liverbirdie
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With the amount you fed them last time, they must be about 6 foot tall, now.
Go get em, Floyd.
Naybrains
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Lol, this ones a real smart erse it's trying to use the bait box as a nest - stones, twigs & nails (yes steel paslode nails) all appearing in the box!
I was gonna go and start a thread about Brendan Rogers but then I thought I'll break myself in gently on the old Rat post ;-)
I was gonna go and start a thread about Brendan Rogers but then I thought I'll break myself in gently on the old Rat post ;-)
Liverbirdie
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You dirty rat.....Essex_Stu
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Borrow a ferret. I once saw a stoat tear a rat a new one before throwing it up a kerb and dragging its body 200m through undergrowth. Evil little gits. Or get some Gen2+ nightsight and a pcp rifle and blast away.
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Naybrains
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Now that sounds like fun ES! Reckon in ten years time when the building site next door is finished they may pi$$ off :angry:
Hacker Khan
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We get them in our loft now and then. Hearing them gnawing away at the floorboards above your head at 3 in the morning is not pleasant. I have a few rat traps up there with peanut butter, and I've caught one that way. Also I have some under the counter industrial strength poison up there. Apparently the rats get a taste for it and take it back to the nest. Where hopefully the rest all tuck in. But what it is doing is killing them slowly so they die a nice painful death. Plus we have 2 cats. But they seem, more interested in sleeping and killing hares.
