Paul D.Smith wrote:
£90.00 is a bit steep as the council ones look like they cost about
£5.00 and if I still have one, the original poster can have it for free.


Depends on what you're thinking of. Around here these are steel boxes,
about 12inches x 6inches wide x 3 inches high with two entrace holes and a
dark chamber, which is where the poison is placed. I have seen plastic
equivalents but asking around I've been told that the rats like to work
their teeth on them and they don't last long.

With the council ones 'round 'ere in Oxford, they're a thin plastic,
hinged at the back with metal wire twist to hold it together, don't get
mauled or munched but the rats love the taste of the blue pellets. You
can hear them giggling then they wonder what they were giggling about!

So it depends on how many rats you expect to have to deal with ;-). I've
done the "length of pipe" thing myself but then I've only had rats twice in
8 years and these were a result of building work on a local "river"
disturbing them, whereas I know people for whom rats are a perennial
problem.

Paul DS

The local rat man is in the same mind as you. Most of the people who
phone him were housewives who were influenced by the film 'Ben' so one
rat is too many. He leaves a trap, gives a few sympathetic nods of
agreement while not listening then leaves. We've got a small stream a
bit of a distance away (with orchards and allotments around that) so the
rats use that as a run.

One or two rats a year is no real bother but if it gets to a fast moving
brown carpet the thickness of the armies in 'The Mummy II' then get yer
gun and get the missus to warm up that sewing machine for that winter coat!

Richard.

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