On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:21:44 +0100, Jaques d'Alltrades
wrote:

The message t
from "Paul D.Smith" contains these words:
You must do something and I believe rats are notifiable (you have to tell
the council)

Notifiable? You have to be joking!

Strictly speaking rats on domestic property, including in the gardens
of domestic property are notifiable but rats on farms are not. In
practice nobody bothers notifying (unless they want the council to
send in a rat man) and nobody will care if you don't.

Get a couple of feet of plastic drainpipe and cut a short length off it.
(Large enough to cover the hole you are about to make.)

Cut, bore, drill or hack a hole in the middle, and make it large enough
to pour in a granular rat poison like Neosorexa.

Cut the short length longitudinally so you can expand it and slip it
over the pipe and slide it up to cover the hole.

Place the pipe alongside a wall, fence, etc, and expose the hole. Tip in
the poison and slide the cover back over it.

Job done.

Can't argue with that, although I prefer just to put paving slabs on
bricks - less chance of it moving around.