any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

Aside from the usual traps and poisons, you need to ask why they are there
in the first place or they will just come back again? Is there a lot of
rubbish in the vicinity? Any food lying around, perhaps scattered from a
bird table? Does a neighbour throw out bread for the birds? Do you put meat
into a compost bin - apparently this attracts them.
Are there good places for them to hide and set up nests?

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David
.... Email address on website http://www.avisoft.co.uk

"David (Normandy)" wrote in message
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any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

Aside from the usual traps and poisons, you need to ask why they are there
in the first place or they will just come back again? Is there a lot of
rubbish in the vicinity? Any food lying around, perhaps scattered from a
bird table? Does a neighbour throw out bread for the birds? Do you put
meat into a compost bin - apparently this attracts them.
Are there good places for them to hide and set up nests?


it may be that rats will always be in the vicinity. we live near farmland.
our neighbours see rats running around occasionally. Our neighbours have an
apple tree and the fruit falls into both gardens. we both make the effort
to pick up the fallen fruit.

we don't see rats running around in our garden, our cats see to that.

jimbo wrote:
any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

Hi Jimbo,
The local authority pest control department may be
able to help. If not how about getting a dog?

Sam

On 30 May 2007 03:00:32 -0700, jimbo wrote and
included this (or some of this):

any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

Tell the kids they're hamsters.


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A good excuse for dusting off you 2.2 and getting some practice in? They only appear when there is food nearby.

"jimbo" wrote ...
any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

There are ultra sonic devices on the market that claim to scare off a number
of animals and they all seem to have at least three settings one of which
does for Rats and Squirrels. It's important that they are set up correctly,
height from the ground etc, so read the instructions well. About £40.
Of course you also need to find out from where they are coming and do
something about it, clear the rubbish, tidy up, fix holes etc or get your
neighbours to.
Please do remember to wear gloves when touching anything where Rats have
been, their pee (dried or otherwise, even diluted in water) can cause Weils
Disease if it gets in a cut and that can be lethal if not diagnosed soon
enough.

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Regards
Bob H
17mls W. of London.UK

On May 30, 11:00 am, jimbo wrote:
any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

There is only one way that works for us. We back onto open fields and
rats have always ben a problem especially after the harvest. My
husband keeps the obvious ones down by shooting them but we also have
the vermin man come in, (oh the shame of it!). He lays a poison that
is not for sale retail, taking care that it is put where other animals
cannot eat it. After a few days of topping this poison up, we are
usually rat free for a while.

Unfortunately, in the Autumn, after the crops are harvested, they come
into our attics and I hate going up there. The vermin man lays poison
up there and comes back to pick up the dead, yuk.

Judith

wrote:
On May 30, 11:00 am, jimbo wrote:
any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

There is only one way that works for us.

.... ...

Unfortunately, in the Autumn, after the crops are harvested, they come
into our attics and I hate going up there. The vermin man lays poison
up there and comes back to pick up the dead, yuk.

Judith


That is awful,Judith, and I sympathize.
Some years ago a rat got into our cavity wall and climbed
up to the loft. As we lay in bed we could hear it scurrying
around. We didn't stand on ceremony but got the pest
control officer in immediately. He put the bait down in the
loft which made the vermin more frantic, but after a couple
of nights - silence. A great relief. He was round later
to collect the corpse, and we've had no trouble since.

On May 31, 8:46 pm, Sam wrote:
wrote:
On May 30, 11:00 am, jimbo wrote:
any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

There is only one way that works for us.

... ...



Unfortunately, in the Autumn, after the crops are harvested, they come
into our attics and I hate going up there. The vermin man lays poison
up there and comes back to pick up the dead, yuk.

Judith

That is awful,Judith, and I sympathize.
Some years ago a rat got into our cavity wall and climbed
up to the loft. As we lay in bed we could hear it scurrying
around. We didn't stand on ceremony but got the pest
control officer in immediately. He put the bait down in the
loft which made the vermin more frantic, but after a couple
of nights - silence. A great relief. He was round later
to collect the corpse, and we've had no trouble since.

You should see what they did to the insulation on our pipes!! They
ate it!!! We had more than one corpse. Here in France, where I am
at the moment, we had a similar problem, no even worse, I had to burn
the sheets on my bed as a mouse had had a litter there. That's the
problem of leaving a house empty in the country with many cavities in
the stonework in the attics. Now the house is pest proof at great
cost!!!!!

Judith

"Sam" wrote in message
om...
jimbo wrote:
any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

Hi Jimbo,
The local authority pest control department may be
able to help. If not how about getting a dog?

Sam

its often neighbours leaving out bread and food for birds that attract them.
no water or no food = no rats

"torge conrad maguar" wrote in message
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"Sam" wrote in message
om...
jimbo wrote:
any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

Hi Jimbo,
The local authority pest control department may be
able to help. If not how about getting a dog?

Sam

its often neighbours leaving out bread and food for birds that attract
them. no water or no food = no rats

Whatever you do you're never more than a few yards from rate. If the ones
you see are removed more will take their place. They've always been there,
it's just that they haven't been seen before.

Mary

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 09:56:55 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"torge conrad maguar" wrote in message
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"Sam" wrote in message
om...
jimbo wrote:
any ideas on getting rid of rats in your garden.

Hi Jimbo,
The local authority pest control department may be
able to help. If not how about getting a dog?

Sam

its often neighbours leaving out bread and food for birds that attract
them. no water or no food = no rats

Whatever you do you're never more than a few yards from rate. If the ones
you see are removed more will take their place. They've always been there,

Cleaning up the crap we humans leave behind.

it's just that they haven't been seen before.

It's always amused me that filthy humans, should complain about filthy
rats!