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Rats!
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. |
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