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Big cat on news tonight
"Martin" wrote in message ... Is it a ratzilla? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...odents-UK.html -- IME people who are not used to seeing rats around always over-estimate their size when they've seen a glimpse of one. As a poultry keeper I have an ongoing battle with them. I use terrier men every month or two to come here and smoke them out with the dogs waiting. The biggest one we ever got weighed just over a pound. I used to use poison. Not any more - my tawny owls disappeared for one thing, and poison takes a while to work, seeing dying rats in extremis changed my mind about the method to use. The terrier way, I believe, is kinder because the rats are either caught and gone literally in a second or they get away to maybe be caught next time. These are not ordinary pet terriers, btw, the terrier men like to hunt with them and that's what they are for. Patterdales & working-bred Lakelands make short shrift of my rats. Even if a big one hangs on to their nose and makes them yelp, it's a gonner. It costs me nothing except tea & biscuits |
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