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We had a loft full of the buggers, chewing the wiring and peeing everywhere.

Shovel

 

We saw just a couple in a large , mostly empty wooden shed we had in the garden , some 8 years down the line and no longer having the shed , our little jack russel still picks his ears up and runs into the garden where the shed was when we say the word "RATS", it sends him barmy looking for them

 

They make great pets

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Don't know where ours came from. Several houses were affected. They started in the garage, then chewed their way into the loft of the house. Several generations, I think - they breed like crazy. Even chewed their way up through the floorboards into the kitchen. We were at our wits end.

A month of rat traps baited with peanut butter and poison from the council bloke finally got rid of them, thank God.

 

Cuddly, but I can't bear to look at the buggers any more.

 

Our neighbours used to poison them, then they'd come into our garden to die. Massive ones.
We went to look at a house once where they'd chewed the corners off every internal doors and the massive swarm of fleas hopping sounded like rain. I'd wondered why the estate agent gave us the keys to show ourselves around. There was the remains of a dead goose in the kitchen.
I'm not a rat fan.

 

Ours had the decency to die in the lofts. A rat corpse every couple of days. Worse thing was if they'd crept into a corner to die.

 

Vile things. They poo 40 times a day. And if you get their pee into a wound, you die. Shovel

 

Hantavirus. Or Weils. I scoured our garage with disinfectant.

 

Kids or rats?

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Lol. I'd have to say both, now that both of mine have grown up (kids, not rats).

Note that there may be legal implications to hitting your child with a shovel (although extenuating circumstances may apply).

 

Leave the bloody thing in a hedge somewhere…

 

You'd be feeding an owl or suchlike. It's not all bad.

 

If there's a species in the UK that does not need help, it's rats.
Handing such a thing to a wildlife rehabilitation would take scant resources away from a species that actually need them.
Not to mention that it would just be a cop out to make YOU feel better.
I can't imagine you of the many people on TLB could smack it with a shovel, but you have to realistic choices - keep it forever as a pet or let nature have it's way.

Just my opinion.

 

You could try the RSPCA, they already kill thousands of unwanted animals for non medical reasons every year.

 

Sell it on Facebook..