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How hard is it to kill a rat!!
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30-11-2007 7:13pm#1
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Had plenty of experiences like that. I worked in Rentokil for 6 years in the 90's.
Oh the Memories
So you got him then ? nice one ! They are tough bastds. If the missus comes looking for him, try using the sharp end of the spade on her, instead of the flat, and take her head off, or cut her open, its surprisingly easy, if you have a strong enough stomach.
and put some poison down now, just in case.
You can probably also get 'Sticky Boards' in your hardware. Stick a few of them together and place them on the floor along the Skirting Boards. You just might catch her on one of the boards. You can then finish her off with the sharp end of the spade.
Good Hunting
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The poor little feller looks kinda cute. Probably just trying to gather a few scrapings together to feed his little rat family.
If you tried to cuddle him, you'd never play the Guitar again
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marcsignal wrote: »Yep, Weils Disease (Leptospirosis), it comes on like the flu, and then your kidneys can fail. Rats contaminate between 70%-90% more food than they actually eat from your cupboard, by walking all over, and pissing all over it.
Golfers have been known to get Weils Disease from licking their Balls (Golf Balls that is, as opposed to their own, or a rats balls:D)
i know all about weils disease. i had it 20 years ago. got it from a cup of soup i got from a chipper :eek: i was 12 years of age at the time and they tested me for everything. in the end they finally tested me for somthing to do with rats and that is what i had. i was sick for nearly a whole year and went down to two and half stone in weight:eek: .
so in future dont lick your golf balls;) or anybodys else's for that matter 0 -
Yes.
And then I cooked him and ate him with some farva beans and a nice chianti.
Ha Ha Ha ! Brilliant
I remember in Rentokil years ago I had to treat this meat packing place in Ringsend (Now Gone), but the Rats were all HUGE from growing up on a diet of red meat. No exageration (sp?) but the largest one we found dead during the course of treating the place, was just under 18inches long, nose to end of tail, and this f*cker had bigger shoulders than most well fed cats.
The production area could only be treated at night, as we were mainly laying bait, which would be hosed away at the end of the day shift.
We had to drive the van into the production area, and turn on the main beams, because most of the lighting didn't work properly, as a result of the Rats chewing through the wiring.
Everywhere you shined a torch, there were dozens of little pairs of eyes peering at you.
There was one walk in fridge that was panelled with corrugated aluminium inside, and the rats simply chewed away the corners and lived in the areoboard insulation of the fridge, which was about 50cms thick, between the aluminium and the walls. I took us about one month to rid the place of rats. You usually only find about 1/3 of the rats dead that are occuping the place, most die from poison in areas you can't get to, like under floors etc, and some corpses are eaten by other Rats. In this place we found over 400 dead after baiting for a month.
I really loved that job tbh, some of the things you saw, and places you ended up working were brilliant. Big power stations, Production Plants, Factories, snobby restaurants, hotels, embassies, fair dews to the Rats, they didn't discriminate.0 -
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Gekko wrote:At home we have 3 Jack Russells who take care of all rats. Haven't seen any since last year though.
Yeah dogs are great for that. My one (a cocker spaniel) has killed about three of them this year in my back garden. On one occasion the rat was still alive but stunned. My Dad saw my dog throwing it up in the air and he finished it off with a shovel.
On another occasion the dog killed one and attempted to bury it in the garden. Now that's efficiency for you.
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There's a mouse in my room at the moment, comes down from the tiniest little crack next to where the fridge is and runs out under the door, he always stops and looks at me on his way out as well, weird little fúcker. I was gonna throw one of my CAT boots at him and squash him, but i felt bad cause he was looking at me so innocently....then i stopped smoking grass for a while and realised it was a trick, he just wants me for my crumbs and warm walls! Next time i see him he's in for it baby, you just watch! 0
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marcsignal wrote: »Ok, true, but this small animal has more biting power, proportionately, than a Great White Shark
Thats kind of impressive, maybe we should set these rats to work cutting through steel or something.0 -
marcsignal wrote: »Ha Ha Ha ! Brilliant
I remember in Rentokil years ago I had to treat this meat packing place in Ringsend (Now Gone), but the Rats were all HUGE from growing up on a diet of red meat. No exageration (sp?) but the largest one we found dead during the course of treating the place, was just under 18inches long, nose to end of tail, and this f*cker had bigger shoulders than most well fed cats.
The production area could only be treated at night, as we were mainly laying bait, which would be hosed away at the end of the day shift.
We had to drive the van into the production area, and turn on the main beams, because most of the lighting didn't work properly, as a result of the Rats chewing through the wiring.
Everywhere you shined a torch, there were dozens of little pairs of eyes peering at you.
There was one walk in fridge that was panelled with corrugated aluminium inside, and the rats simply chewed away the corners and lived in the areoboard insulation of the fridge, which was about 50cms thick, between the aluminium and the walls. I took us about one month to rid the place of rats. You usually only find about 1/3 of the rats dead that are occuping the place, most die from poison in areas you can't get to, like under floors etc, and some corpses are eaten by other Rats. In this place we found over 400 dead after baiting for a month.
I really loved that job tbh, some of the things you saw, and places you ended up working were brilliant. Big power stations, Production Plants, Factories, snobby restaurants, hotels, embassies, fair dews to the Rats, they didn't discriminate.
I hate rats but by god the rentokill job sounds very interesting - great stories.0 -
I hate rats but by god the rentokill job sounds very interesting - great stories.
Yeah, it really was intereting work, but can remember being petrified or the first few weeks, as they bring to to some of their worst cases to ease you into the job.
I was never bitten thank god, but sometimes when the Rats are 'stoned out of it' on the bait (usually Bromadiolone or Alphachlorolose) it can be very funny, because it takes 48hours to kill them, for safety reasons, and during this period, they tend to wander out into the middle of a Restaurant in broad daylight, with hilarious results
Treated a few well known hotels for cockroaches in the 90's too YUCK !! and treating Wasps Nests could be a bit of a hairy experience:eek:
ok off topic but,
The one area of the job I really didn't like doing was Bird Control, because you always unintentionally killed a small amount of other birds in the process what were not part your original task.
In 1990 we got a big contract from the ESB in Poolbeg to kill off hundreds of Pigeons that were living around the complex. They were flying into warehouses and storage areas on site and crapping all over stock, forklift trucks, workers etc.
The process takes about a (working) week (5 days). You begin, by throwing / scattering ordinary grain on top of every flat roof in the complex at about 5am every morning, starting Monday. This consqeuently, after a few days, attracts every pigeon within a half mile radius of the area. They are waiting for you to arrive in the morning by the 4th day, and gorge themselves on the grain.
On day 5, you poison the grain with Alphachlorolose Technical Powder, in a small cement mixer, which drugs them into a comatic state within 10 minutes of eating it. So you lay the poisoned grain, and go have breakfast in the ESB canteen.
About 30 minutes later, on this occasion, we emerged from the canteed to see hundreds of drugged birds lying all over the whole complex.
It was literally like something out of a Hitchcock movie, or some Apocolyptic scene.
These drugged birds have to be collected manually, by walking, or driving all over the whole site, and put into thick black plastic bags (about 50 birds per bag). You then have to gas them, using, believe it or not, Zyklon B crystals (Hydrogen Cyanide), the same chemical used in the Concentration Camps. You mask up, with a full respirator, hold the bags open and dump a handful of crystals into each bag.
Theres a bit of flapping around at first, but all is quiet after a minute or so.
The corpses are then burnt the next day.
Not a nice part of the job, I never liked doing it. In fact, whenever I met a girl in the pub, I often avoided saying what I did for a living.0 -
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