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04-04-2010, 03:11 PM
Granity
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First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Jul 2006
Location: Bedfordshire
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"John L"
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I've just seen a rat come over our garden shed roof, down the gutter, up
the stick that holds the bird feeder, and then start feeding itself. It
did it 3 times in 20 minutes. It looked huge (but then: they always do
I believe). It was definitely a brown rat - pink paws and all that.
So: tomorrow I buy a couple of rat traps, and tell the neighbours; on
Tuesday I'll tell the council (FWIW).
We live in a rural village right next to fields/woods (hm - sounds
great don't it?). However our houses are standard 60s semis (i.e. not
converted barns on the site of an old farmhouse). We've been here 25
years, and I don't ever remember seeing a rat before in such flagrant
proximity.
So: any comments from people here who have suffered from rats? I feel
we need to eradicate them ASAP.
Cheers
John
p.s. To save comments: in those 25 years we've always had compost heaps
(with no food scraps) and we've always had bird feeders.
Buy an air rifle.
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