Rats in garden

[Paul]

Hi
I am new vegie gardener, this is my first year. We are just starting to get
a few things ripening and now something (I suspect rat) is eating them!
I am reluctant to use baits or traps and was wondering what you folks do?
regards

Paul

[Bushy]

Sit back with a rifle and wait!

Works on rabbits for a few minutes....

Peter

[Luke]

You can borrow my cat, he's been catching plenty lately :-)

[Bushy]

> You can borrow my cat, he's been catching plenty lately :-)
>

Great, another target!

Peter

;<)

[Mousie]

"Paul" > wrote in message
...
> Hi
> I am new vegie gardener, this is my first year. We are just starting to
get
> a few things ripening and now something (I suspect rat) is eating them!
> I am reluctant to use baits or traps and was wondering what you folks do?
> regards
>
> Paul
>
>

Jack Russells are very good at getting rid of rats
--
Mousie

<3 )~




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[Dissent]

Paul wrote:
>
> Hi
> I am new vegie gardener, this is my first year. We are just starting
> to get a few things ripening and now something (I suspect rat) is
> eating them! I am reluctant to use baits or traps and was wondering
> what you folks do? regards
>
> Paul

Underpants are a great for catching rats.
--
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, hypocrisy, brutality,
the elite.... All of which are American dreams......

[John Savage]

"Paul" > writes:
>I am new vegie gardener, this is my first year. We are just starting to get
>a few things ripening and now something (I suspect rat) is eating them!
>I am reluctant to use baits or traps and was wondering what you folks do?

I need to regularly bait for rats, otherwise they'll take any snail bait
I put out. At first I was puzzled by the disappearance of the snail bait,
every last pellet, but finally spied a rat in broad daylight skipping
about gathering it up! I thought if he ate enough it might bring about
his own demise, but that wasn't to be.

I place rat bait under an upturned polythene crate, leaving a small gap
under one corner. The crate protects the bait from rain and my hosing,
and stops neighbours' pets from getting to it.
--
John Savage (for email, replace "ks" with "k" and delete "n")