Rats bating

[rick1127]

Ok so this is very hard to believe but is very true.
My neighbour has rats in his garden but he feeds them and it's not lead.
Because they get so well fed in his garden they just pass through ours to walk off there food abit like when you've had a big Sunday roast.
But my problem is my dogs go mad as they can smell where the rats have walked through at night.
My cat that would normally take down a charging wild boar has even admitted defeat because she is way out numbered by said rats.
So I'm needing something that rats just can not resist to tempt them into my garden whilst I'm still awake and pop the little blighters off with an air rifle.
I've tried the peanut butter and other stuff but it's just not dragging them in.
Any ideas are welcome.

 

[Greenmist]

Rodilon in a bait box, I'd also be tempted to involve environmental health

 

[Bo Diddley]

If you really really want to bait them into your garden to shoot them... and think about that hard... keep a pile of wheat on the ground where you think it's safest to shoot them, within a couple of weeks they will be on it and will have formed a little "run" or two directly to the pile of free food (they leave a trail of urine as they move about, so others pick the trail up and it becomes a Rat Super-highway) then start shooting them with basic NV and air rifle..

But Greenmist has given the best advice.. involve environmental health, or bait with lashings of rodentacide.

 

[Goingback]

Your neighbour is breaking the law/rules and regs regarding attracting vermin. If i remember rightly an elderly woman got fined heavily for breaching an asbo against her regarding gulls and crow feeding in her garden.

 

[rick1127]

We have rang environmental health and we basically got you live in the country so expect rodents.

 

[Bo Diddley]

We have rang environmental health and we basically got you live in the country so expect rodents.

Is it a Labour run council

 

[rick1127]

Ordered rodilon and a box to put it in my other neighbour put poison down and everything was eaten but the population didn't dwindle any.
So maybe try something abit stronger.
Shooting them is the last resort and I have to be carefull with poison because we have a very stupid golden retriever and even dafter spaniel between them everything is classed as food that's in the garden.

 

[old keeper]

On a similar theme, friends in the village had seen rats in the garden, so they started putting down bait blocks, which went on a regular basis. They told their neighbours that they had seen rats and were told, " Yes, we have them in the house. "The other day, one walked across the kitchen"! They have small children too. They were completely unconcerned! Unbelievable.

 

[shakey jake]

Ring environmental health, demand they take action.
I think its the pest prevention act, council has a duty to ensure all land is rat free. If your neighbour wont solve it they should hive him a court order.
With any rodenticide you are going to struggle if they have a food source.
Burrow baiting with an approved rodenticide may help.
If you havent been trained recently any professional product are outmof the question.
I wouldnt advise you on a single feed as the risk to non target is too great.
Your next step sbould be environmemental health. Dont take no for an answer

 

[jall55]

Ordered rodilon and a box to put it in my other neighbour put poison down and everything was eaten but the population didn't dwindle any.
So maybe try something abit stronger.
Shooting them is the last resort and I have to be carefull with poison because we have a very stupid golden retriever and even dafter spaniel between them everything is classed as food that's in the garden.

Dont use poison then - of your dog picks it up you will be very very very sad

 

[shakey jake]

We have rang environmental health and we basically got you live in the country so expect rodents.

Prevention of Damage by Pests Act 1949.

 

[rick1127]

Well the poison is ordered so I might just have to wait till the neighbour is out and put it in the rat hotel he keeps.

 

[Bo Diddley]

Well the poison is ordered so I might just have to wait till the neighbour is out and put it in the rat hotel he keeps.

I wouldn't do that, you could land yourself in a world of $hite.

 

[Smellydog]

Shoot the bastard things.
Get some fens set up behind boards and bricks. Put the peanut butter on them.

 

[Smellydog]

We have a crack pot two doors away. Tips loads of grain out for the birds. We get the rats rock up and corvids FFS. Bloody town idiots.

 

[Bo Diddley]

We have a crack pot two doors away. Tips loads of grain out for the birds. We get the rats rock up and corvids FFS. Bloody town idiots.

I've got the same next door, lucky the gardens are large, they feed everything, Muntjac, squirrels, rats, corvids, pigeons... you name it, it all arrives twice a day when they hear the clanking of the galvanised feed bin... she does feed a nice melanistic cock....

 

[Greenmist]

Dont use poison then - of your dog picks it up you will be very very very sad

With respect, if the poison is in an approved bait box the dogs will not be able to pick it up

 

[Smellydog]

Mixed race relationships are everywhere nowadays

she does feed a nice melanistic cock....

 

[Greenmist]

Well the poison is ordered so I might just have to wait till the neighbour is out and put it in the rat hotel he keeps.

Don't put it on his side of the boundary, it will cause you no end of grief

 

[Bo Diddley]

Mixed race relationships are everywhere nowadays

Gotcha (it's all in the wording...she does have a nice male pheasant who is very dark in her garden)
I can be very childish sometimes