"lloyd" wrote in message
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On Sat, 3 Oct 2009 18:12:20 +0100, "Christina Websell"
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"Derek Turner" wrote in message
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On Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:22:05 +0100, lloyd wrote:

Anything we can do to encourage the hedgehogs, but not the rats from
visiting the garden? I have both

1. Terrier from working lines.
2. Huge cat.


Yes get some terrier men in.for your rats. Mine come about every six
weeks
to sort them out.
I do have a huge cat, but he's a bit of a wuss about tackling the big ones
with the brown chisel teeth. He sorts out the small ones, no problem, but
those big ones, they're a job for the terriers, he claims ;-)
And he's right. some of the big ones even give the terriers a run for
their
money, antiseptic needed to dab their bleeding noses where they've been
well
bitten by a big rat. They don't seem to mind though, it seems to make
them
more determined..

Tina

That sounds completely horrid. Why should anyone want to kill a rat
just because it's a rat, is that a crime for the poor beast to be a
rat? And if you feel you really must kill them why do it in such a
nasty way! I dread to think what you feel we should do with our feral
children.

I should like to discourage them, not wipe them out.

Oh, for goodness sake. I am obliged by law to control rats on my property, I
can either poison them and see them wander around dying for days or get the
terriers in to kill them in a second. Choose one of the above.
What would you prefer?

Tina