Rats in garden

airbusa320

I hiope someone can help.
A week or so ago I found a dead rat in my back garden .
On further invetigation I noticed some gaps under my decking so I purchased some blue rat poison blocks and placed them in these gaps.
All was quite until 5 days later when the blocks were disturbed, so I replaced them only to notice that they were gone the next day. Other that these holes I have not noticed any other signs . I have sine put down more poison.
Can anyone help as I have young children and dont want them in garden if Indeed I do have rats.

CJhaughey

airbusa320 wrote: »

I hiope someone can help.
A week or so ago I found a dead rat in my back garden .
On further invetigation I noticed some gaps under my decking so I purchased some blue rat poison blocks and placed them in these gaps.
All was quite until 5 days later when the blocks were disturbed, so I replaced them only to notice that they were gone the next day. Other that these holes I have not noticed any other signs . I have sine put down more poison.
Can anyone help as I have young children and dont want them in garden if Indeed I do have rats.

Set traps, easier to see if you have got the rat then.
Also less risk of poisoning other animals from secondary poisoning.
Little nipper brand are very good, some bacon rind or peanut butter is a good bait.

Tabnabs

Do a search, lots of previous topics on this subject. But first off, get some lengths of drainpipe, big enough for the bait, but too long for little arms to reach into.

They are there because food is dropped under the decking, that's the problem you're going to have to fix to stop this reoccurring.

You don't say what the gaps are in, but if you can, block these up too.

arthur daly

Get the wax blocks and screw them onto a piece of timber so the rat can't take it and inside a pipe if needed.
If the poison is just thrown out they will take and store it.

airbusa320

Tabnabs wrote: »

Do a search, lots of previous topics on this subject. But first off, get some lengths of drainpipe, big enough for the bait, but too long for little arms to reach into.

They are there because food is dropped under the decking, that's the problem you're going to have to fix to stop this reoccurring.

You don't say what the gaps are in, but if you can, block these up too.

Thank you for your reply.
The gaps are from the grass and the decking edge. I think the rat/s have dug down to access under the decking.

Riverireland

Your local council are actually responsible for rats in your garden, not in your house though. I got them in a few years ago and they put down poison in boxes. It took a lot of calls and eventually had to get my local representative involved but it is their responsibility.

dialer

One way : put down storm poison in a tubular pipe so the rats are hidden & feels safe while devouring poison.

5 days later : end of rat problem.

Boiled-egg

I tend to opt for a two prong approach of poison and traps.
Firstly I should say, is wear gloves at all times, wheather dealing with poison, traps or dead rats.

I have 4 purpose made bait points, (used to use waven pipe ) they have metal bars in them for threading on the storm so the rat has to eat it. They are deployed all year round. If I notice an increase in activity as I did this year, I increase my inspection of bait points to every 3 days and keep topping up until activity stops and supplement this with traps of various types (all kill traps none of that humane crap when dealing with rats) I find that peanut butter works well as a bait.

Happy hunting.

airbusa320

Boiled-egg wrote: »

I tend to opt for a two prong approach of poison and traps.
Firstly I should say, is wear gloves at all times, wheather dealing with poison, traps or dead rats.

I have 4 purpose made bait points, (used to use waven pipe ) they have metal bars in them for threading on the storm so the rat has to eat it. They are deployed all year round. If I notice an increase in activity as I did this year, I increase my inspection of bait points to every 3 days and keep topping up until activity stops and supplement this with traps of various types (all kill traps none of that humane crap when dealing with rats) I find that peanut butter works well as a bait.

Happy hunting.

Thanks for the tips.
I will try anything to get rid

cheif kaiser

Crushed glass under your decking is supposed to deter rats.