Rat in the garden. Advice wanted

i shoot them at home (we back onto fields and have chickens)i also shoot rats for a few local farms.

If they are out during the day you have a problem and you have a lot you dont see if you cant shoot them,

A trap is next best you could try a humane one but if you dont want to kill it you will need to take it at least 5 miles away as the will just come back. good baits are peanut butter, mars bar or cat food.
i dont like poison as its a horrible way to die and you have no control on where it dies if under the shed it will stink and other animals can eat it and die.

 

Also Try and make sure you take all food sources they are using away

 

Is is name Roland?

 

True about them dying under the floorboards, but sometimes it's the only way.

 

I really like the idea of a saucer under it to save the droppings. Saves the birds having to swoop down to the ground as well.

Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,nice for the birdies.

 

I think you have put you reply on the wrong post ...

http://thelatebay.com/index.php?threads/the-six-wives-of-barry-haynes.67536/

 

You can borrow my patterdale terrier they are good ratters

 

The pest cntrol van near us has this slogan on the back

" Rats are like chips - you can't just have one"

 

My jack russell kicks rats' arses for a living!

 

I've got a couple of them, and they work with peanut butter , trouble is they didn't float when i accidentally dropped one into the water butt

 

The most humane way is to spray Peppermint oil around the perimeter


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That's very kind, have you got a sawn off? there's a security van that I've had an eye on for a while,

 

That is very painful it hurts as much as If you get Deep heat in your pants

 

One of those humane traps..... then a .22 air rifle.... they only seem to appear when no-ones about and I'm not hiding waiting for them like Jasper Carrot and his moles.

The bigger version of the mouse traps just seem to get stripped clean without going off they're better at it than mice!

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We had some die under our kitchen floor when I was a student, it smelled minging and we had a plague of flies

Never got another after we blocked off the way it got in, keep it very clean of food too

 

we get rats in the roof space here (not mine) ,but I put poison down , then six months later take the bodies out (if I can find them..)

We also have pine martins (protected)in the roof space ,the guys catch them , then let them go 10k away ,always remembering to leave their buisness cards in the region where they dump them

 

We briefly had one once but he legged it for somewhere safer - maybe because we have 2 Jack Russells and a Patterdale