There's a rat in my bin, what am I gonna do?

Please don't. I hate rats

 

ive got a rat its called roland yeeeeeeh , just check that theirs no bludee gerbil too .

 

Yep, we stopped putting veg peelings etc in, and also leave the lid off so it gets cold wet with rain. Seems ok now but maybe just hiding somewhere else......
Whats a hotbin?

 

It used to be fun when I worked up the local as a young un, if we found a rat had got into one of the empty grain hoppers and couldn't get out we used to slide the farmers jack Russell in (that thing loved rats ) and and sit there watching them go round and round like a wall of death till the dog caught the rat and snapped it's neck

 

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Does the job faster and is enclosed. Made of polystyrene (for insulation), so not exactly rat proof, but they've not had a go at ours yet and if they do it'll get wrapped in chicken wire.

 

Maybe it's a Long Tailed Siberian Hamster

 

Just kill the thing!

 

Call the Pied Piper, but keep your kids indoors,

 

If you thrash it with a brush handle make sure it don't run up it, when ratting blue alkethene pipe is my weapon of choice, along with a good patterdale a chain saw with no bar and a length of hose pipe!

 

boil a kettle of water and pour it intop of it , works everytime owenn w

 

Put a collar and lead on it and take it on your bike ride,

 

Bunch of cruel gets you lot. .... Empty a co2 fire extinguisher into the bin. Or set fire to it!

 

You forgot to add 1 new bin!

 

Seriously, trap it or poison it. Get rid of any sources of food, and bung any entry holes in your house up. If they get established and start breeding, it's a nightmare. Took us a year to get rid of our "visitors". They're not pleasant.

 

If you move the bin to the Kitchen, then this self help song can assist as it raises the very concerns you voice:




My conclusions is you need to 'fix' the rat.

 

Catch it and put it in one of these:

 

we had one in our compost bin a few years back - i used a garden fork to spear it - eck it were big. On the first attempt it ran up the fork handle and I screamed like Ned Flanders and ran off down the garden - luckily the the lid fell down and knocked it back into the bin. Got it the second time.

 

Some good answers!
I'm back from the ride now and am going to have a look....trouble is, our house backs onto a field....the buggers are always running around here. They have been in the outside shed (you can smell em), but I trapped em with a little nipper and some chocolate. They scare me more than spiders though....!
I'll take some pics if I can get near enough without my brown corduroys!