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Rat in garden, advice please.

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  • #32
    Dicky Pride
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭Dicky Pride


    turkeysouls wrote: »
    What is wrong with you? You're insane and cruel. Why else would you want to torture them? HOw can you get pleasure from it.

    You're more vile than any rat and a much greater drain on the earth's resources. Oh I've a good idea.....Go and get another sicko to pour boiling water all over you till you drown.

    Hold on a second there bucko...where have I said that I have done it, or have intended to do it? I'm just passing on what someone once said to me. I wouldn't dream of doing anything like that to any creature.

    Reported.


  • #33
    SteelyDanJalapeno
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    Yeah Bucko


  • #34
    Dicky Pride
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    It felt like a bucko moment.


  • #35
    EURATS
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    turkeysouls wrote: »


    You're just plain and evil scumbag and if you do this or have done it, I hope Karma visits you soon.


    I never said I did it. But poisoning them would be a slower death where they haemorrhage internally. Should we all send our rats to you so that you can look after them for us?
    The fact of the matter is that wild rats are potentially leathal to us and our domestic animals and have to be removed.


  • #36
    Bigus
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    Fuh Q wrote: »
    .

    FffF....ing great user name very funny


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  • #37
    SteelyDanJalapeno
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    Bigus wrote: »
    FffF....ing great user name very funny

    Similarly apt username :
    EURATS wrote: »
    I never said I did it. But poisoning them would be a slower death where they haemorrhage internally. Should we all send our rats to you so that you can look after them for us?
    The fact of the matter is that wild rats are potentially leathal to us and our domestic animals and have to be removed.


  • #38
    EURATS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭EURATS


    TiltedBrain wrote: »

    Similarly apt username :


    And ur username? Ha. Merry Christmas


  • #39
    Fuh Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Fuh Q


    Right people, I placed a snap trap just under my shed and when I went out to check yesterday it was gone, now either some big rat has stolen it in put it on ebay or a rat has gotten caught in it and moved it.
    Ive been working nights so have not had the time or the daylight to check it out, I will get up early tomorrow and go investigating.

    If there is a rat in the trap I suppose Im better off just getting rid of the rat and trap together to avoid coming in contact with whatever diseases it might be carrying ?

    If I catch rats in the cage trap will the council come and collect them ? someone told me they will..


  • #40
    EURATS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭EURATS


    Fuh Q wrote: »
    Right people, I placed a snap trap just under my shed and when I went out to check yesterday it was gone, now either some big rat has stolen it in put it on ebay or a rat has gotten caught in it and moved it.
    Ive been working nights so have not had the time or the daylight to check it out, I will get up early tomorrow and go investigating.

    If there is a rat in the trap I suppose Im better off just getting rid of the rat and trap together to avoid coming in contact with whatever diseases it might be carrying ?

    If I catch rats in the cage trap will the council come and collect them ? someone told me they will..


    Latex gloves if rat is dead in trap. Give trap a wash and use again. (Obviously use a shovel to get the rat in a bag and into bin..handle as little as possible)


    u could put blue blocks in the cage for them to nibble on when u set it if u want to avoid taking care of the situation yourself.


  • #41
    howardmarks
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    There's a rat in me kitchen, what am a gonna do?


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  • #42
    EURATS
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    howardmarks wrote: »
    There's a rat in me kitchen, what am a gonna do?


    Give him a blast of ur spliff of course Howard..and then just relax


  • #43
    Fuh Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Fuh Q


    EURATS wrote: »
    Latex gloves if rat is dead in trap. Give trap a wash and use again. (Obviously use a shovel to get the rat in a bag and into bin..handle as little as possible)


    u could put blue blocks in the cage for them to nibble on when u set it if u want to avoid taking care of the situation yourself.

    How long does it take for the blue blocks to work ?


  • #44
    EURATS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 528 ✭✭✭EURATS


    Fuh Q wrote: »

    How long does it take for the blue blocks to work ?

    Can take a few days. Is speeded up if they have access to water. A fairly slow death really


  • #45
    deandean
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    Fuh Q wrote: »
    ....or a rat has gotten caught in it and moved it.l..
    Sounds like you may have a very pi$$ed off rat in your back garden now!


  • #46
    Fuh Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Fuh Q


    Caught him, the trap was about two feet in under the shed, it must have jumped with the snapping action. Ive re set the trap with some fresh peanut butter just in case there is more than one. There is no sign of activity in the cage nor have any of the blue blocks been touched.
    My son said that he thinks the rat he saw last week was bigger, have to wait and see what happens next.

    rat_zpsf8e38485.jpg


  • #47
    Tails142
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    Merry xmas mutherf******


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
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    There is always more than one. Keep setting the traps and baits until you go a good time without any signs of rat activity.
    Also think about their food supply. Is there anything nearby that they feed on and if so can you do something to remove it or to make it ratproof? Otherwide another family will arrive in jig time.


  • #49
    Fuh Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Fuh Q


    Deleted User wrote: »
    There is always more than one. Keep setting the traps and baits until you go a good time without any signs of rat activity.
    Also think about their food supply. Is there anything nearby that they feed on and if so can you do something to remove it or to make it ratproof? Otherwide another family will arrive in jig time.

    I will keep the traps set, I did think about why they are in my garden but there is no food supply, rubbish is in the bin and the dogs are fed inside.


  • #50
    stock>
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 755 ✭✭✭stock>


    Now one could always use cement and oatmeal mixed..................causes the bucktoothed feckers to dehydrate with no smell, what we used to do in the straw barn......very effective


  • #51
    Fuh Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Fuh Q


    After resetting the trap about four days ago I checked today and the peanut butter has been eaten off the trap but the trap did not activate. I checked the cage trap and something has eaten the bait from in that too, it did activate but there is nothing in it, Im guessing it was a small rat or a mouse as whatever it was managed to escape.
    Ill reset them and hope I catch something next time..


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  • #52
    biko
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    This is what I did
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80216121

    I tried a few normal traps first, including rotating bottle traps, but he was just too big to fall for them *pun*.
    Borrowed a big cage and that got him in the end.

    Btw I put the rat, cage and all in a water bin for 20 min to make he was dead before I threw him in the brown bin to be recycled.


  • #53
    sullzz
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    Fuh Q wrote: »
    Caught him, the trap was about two feet in under the shed, it must have jumped with the snapping action. Ive re set the trap with some fresh peanut butter just in case there is more than one. There is no sign of activity in the cage nor have any of the blue blocks been touched.
    My son said that he thinks the rat he saw last week was bigger, have to wait and see what happens next.

    rat_zpsf8e38485.jpg


    Mmmmmmmmm rat washed down with a can of coke !!!!!


  • #54
    Fuh Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Fuh Q


    Ive been working nights and was too lazy on my nights off so I just got a chance today to have a look under my shed, the blue blocks are gone and all the peanut butter in the cage and in the snap trap has been eaten. Ive reset the traps and put some more blue blocks down. will check again in a couple of days..


  • #55
    Fuh Q
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭Fuh Q


    Fuh Q wrote: »
    Ive been working nights and was too lazy on my nights off so I just got a chance today to have a look under my shed, the blue blocks are gone and all the peanut butter in the cage and in the snap trap has been eaten. Ive reset the traps and put some more blue blocks down. will check again in a couple of days..
    Cought another one today.


  • #56
    glineli
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    Fuh Q wrote: »
    Cought another one today.

    Good work, so how did you get rid of him then?


  • #57
    Fuh Q
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    glineli wrote: »
    Good work, so how did you get rid of him then?
    I put the cage into water and he drowned.


  • #58
    Boiled-egg
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    Just reading this thread, there's something strangely satisfying about catching & killing rats. I think they are universally hated (dirty little f€(&ers). Every so often I declare war on them and I've about 3-4 four weeks of trapping and poisoning. This year I've added a fenn mk4 trap to my arsenal.


  • #59
    C O Connor
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    Just came across this thread....I saw a rather large Rat in my garden last night and I will take a trip to the DIY store on the way home this evening armed with the knowledge I got here.......Cheers.


  • #60
    stock>
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    C O Connor wrote: »
    Just came across this thread....I saw a rather large Rat in my garden last night and I will take a trip to the DIY store on the way home this evening armed with the knowledge I got here.......Cheers.


    Successful were we?


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