Rats

[Evelyn Tentions]

Poisons work brilliantly (the blocks are best) but the fuckers take revenge by dying somewhere in a wall cavity next to your bed or similar unreachable spot and producing an absolutely foul smell for days.

If you use traps, peanut butter works better than cheese because it doesn't fall off.

[Stickman]

I'd still put them way above Tories.

[Rico1304]

My mum has a digital device that emits hi-pitch sounds which they hate and scares them off. I'd give them a try before you buy them, I could still hear it and the noise fucked with me

You moved out though...

[Rico1304]

I'd still put them way above Tories.

Someone living for free in a house?

[SammyAftershave]

Have you tried introducing a mouse to the proceedings? I once heard they don't cohabitate willingly with each other.

[Chip Butty]

Have you tried introducing a mouse to the proceedings? I once heard they don't cohabitate willingly with each other.

 

Mats Rouse 

 

 

Sounds like a German Centre-Half.  

[Carvalho Diablo]

Think you're looking at this from the wrong angle, Angry. They do 'cones' better than Lovren.

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Mr. Jangles ?

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Any outside gaps fill with mortar and broken glass, even they can't chew through glass. Get an air rifle and go all Bob De Niro.

[bonesman]

Get a Jack russell in for a couple of weeks.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I spent most of yesterday turning the living room upside down to find any possible entry points or runs and loading them with poison, stuffing them with wire wool and sealing them with Polyfilla.

 

When I finished I had the feeling that somebody was watching me. I turned around and guess what I saw. I can't deny that my first reaction was to shout at him "just fuck off, will you!"

 

He ran away and disappeared somewhere (under some furniture I think). He made a few fleeting appearances again through the night and it became clear that he had been trying to get back through the holes which were now filled. So we had a standoff; he was trapped in the living room but I couldn't find exactly where and catch him.

 

A few weeks ago the council replaced our recycling bin with a recycling bag. It is about 3 feet tall, semi-rigid with a flap for a lid. After I had brushed my teeth I went back to the living room just to check and I saw that the rat had fallen into the recycling bag. I carried the bag outside and emptied him out into the back alley. So far he hasn't been able to return and I haven't seen or heard any more noises in the walls. Here's hoping...

[tokyojoe]

I spent most of yesterday turning the living room upside down to find any possible entry points or runs and loading them with poison, stuffing them with wire wool and sealing them with Polyfilla.

 

When I finished I had the feeling that somebody was watching me. I turned around and guess what I saw. I can't deny that my first reaction was to shout at him "just fuck off, will you!"

 

He ran away and disappeared somewhere (under some furniture I think). He made a few fleeting appearances again through the night and it became clear that he had been trying to get back through the holes which were now filled. So we had a standoff; he was trapped in the living room but I couldn't find exactly where and catch him.

 

A few weeks ago the council replaced our recycling bin with a recycling bag. It is about 3 feet tall, semi-rigid with a flap for a lid. After I had brushed my teeth I went back to the living room just to check and I saw that the rat had fallen into the recycling bag. I carried the bag outside and emptied him out into the back alley. So far he hasn't been able to return and I haven't seen or heard any more noises in the walls. Here's hoping...

He's just gone to round up his mates.

[Anubis]

11pm tonight outside Angry's house.

 

 

[Paulie Dangerously]

[Elite]

I had a rat in my garden the other week. It did well to get there as theres about 20 cats on my estate including my own.

[polymerpunkah]

Sat on the bog last spring, glance down to see a whiskery little nose poking out from under the tub.

 

I was up and off the toilet so fast I burst out laughing. Amazing what a jolt of adrenaline will do. Thankfully I wasn't in mid-movement or there'd've been a brown streak across my bathroom floor.

 

Bought one of the old fashioned wooden traps, and after some fine-tuning (taping it to the floor so it didn't throw the rat when it sprung) I managed to reclaim my throne.

[Hand Shandy]

They get into our loft but thankfully not the house.

 

We're in a semi detached and our garden is in reasonable nick, but next door is a wreck. Rat heaven. And he has trees and bushes growing up onto his roof, providing easy access.

 

Without bricking up the roof space, which still probably wouldn't stop them, there's not really much we can do.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[Sugar Ape]

Sitting there playing my Xbox last night and heard something scratching in the wall, well I say scratching but it was more like a knocking sound mixed in with scratching. Lasted about 20 minutes, then I heard it an hour later in another wall then nothing for the rest of the night. 
 

Haven’t heard the noises before or noticed anything like droppings etc… So is it likely to be rats or mice or am I just going mad?

 

And before anyone asks I’m not currently keeping anyone in my Fritzl-like dungeon so I know it’s not that. 

[Sugar Ape]

Actually I got a video but the noise is hard to make out. At first I thought it was next door putting a plug in as it was a similar sound until I looked at their house and all the lights were off, then I heard it in a wall we don’t share with them. 
 

 

[Raymond Duck]

We have a lot of foxes where I live and one left a Rat outside the back door a while ago.

 

It was the size of a boom mic, a proper unit. 

[A Red]

I would phone the council pest control, they will charge you to visit but about half as much as a private company

[Sugar Ape]

7 minutes ago, A Red said:

I would phone the council pest control, they will charge you to visit but about half as much as a private company

They aren’t doing indoor visits due to Covid the bastards. They only charge £41 as well. 

[A Red]

14 minutes ago, Sugar Ape said:

They aren’t doing indoor visits due to Covid the bastards. They only charge £41 as well. 

Maybe after Freedom day?

[Sugar Ape]

2 minutes ago, A Red said:

Maybe after Freedom day?

Yeah, probably 6-12 months after freedom day. They’re only dealing with outside problems like bees and wasps it says. 

[A Red]

1 minute ago, Sugar Ape said:

Yeah, probably 6-12 months after freedom day. They’re only dealing with outside problems like bees and wasps it says. 

No point giving them a buzz* then.

 

 

*Sorry