Rat advice!

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Hello all!

I got woken up at 3 this morning by a rat trying to make it's way into my room - it sounded like it was gnawing at the capet / floorboards! As soon as I turned the light on i could hear it scurrying away, which must mean that it's pretty close.

It's really freaking me out, if it comes into my room i will scream!

I'm going to head down to B&Q later, and does anyone know what the best plan of action is? Do the plug ins work?

My housemate is a bit of a hippy freak, and i think if i went and bought some heparin she won't talk to me for a while, which is why the landlord hasn't phoned the infestation services.

Any help?

PS - anyone who starts with rat puns / songs etc will not be appreciated!

 

[Frutos]

Is this him?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Contact the ratcatcher at the local council.

They provide a BRILLIANT service that GETS RID OF RATS.

Ignore your housemate. Rats are dangerous.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Sonic scarers are shit. Kill it. Dirty great rat trap, otherwise it will eat the poison, hide under your floorboards, and stink like shit while it decomposes.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Sonic scarers are shit. Kill it. Dirty great rat trap, otherwise it will eat the poison, hide under your floorboards, and stink like shit while it decomposes.

You have to assume that you have ratS, rather than a rat. And if you trap a rat, how are you going to dispose of it? What about the ones you haven't caught?

Get a professional in.

 

[twickers]

Hello all!

I got woken up at 3 this morning by a rat trying to make it's way into my room - it sounded like it was gnawing at the capet / floorboards! As soon as I turned the light on i could hear it scurrying away, which must mean that it's pretty close.

It's really freaking me out, if it comes into my room i will scream!

I'm going to head down to B&Q later, and does anyone know what the best plan of action is? Do the plug ins work?

My housemate is a bit of a hippy freak, and i think if i went and bought some heparin she won't talk to me for a while, which is why the landlord hasn't phoned the infestation services.

Any help?

PS - anyone who starts with rat puns / songs etc will not be appreciated!

I had a mouse problem and went online and got the electronic catcher. I wanted to be sure of immediate death so bought the rat size. It's great. A few batteries and instant, silent death. No messing with traps or bait. Circa £28 and couldn't recomend it enough...

Electronic Rat Killer: Amazon.co.uk: Garden Outdoors

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Just phoned the council - of course they dont work at weekends *useless* - and will come in 3 days.

Last time they came they didn't ask us where the problem was - just popped some tablets outside and buggered off! They were meant to come for a follow up, and didnt!

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Some cheese and a big wooden mallet should do it.

 

[twickers]

Just phoned the council - of course they dont work at weekends *useless* - and will come in 3 days.

Last time they came they didn't ask us where the problem was - just popped some tablets outside and buggered off! They were meant to come for a follow up, and didnt!

If you tell them you have lots of small children they are lot more attentive to the problem.

 

[BensGrandad]

Could you not use the I am a nurse and do not want to take any infection into the hospital routine to get them to attend quicker.


Our first pub was in the docks of East London and we had rats in the cellar and when I went to change a barrell I had to kick the door to make a noise and wait 10 secs then go in by which time they had scurried away. One day my wife was feeding our eldest who was in a high chair and a rat casually walked across the kitchen floor as if it was his home.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

I had a massive rat in my house in Pompey many years ago, Laura, caught it on the grill pan, fininshing off the previous day's bacon dripping; it shat in the toaster and ate through bread and cereal packets. Not nice at all.

Try to get rid of it quick, 'cos they're nasty disease-ridden buggers, but do not use poison, 'cos if they eat it, they'll eventually skulk off somewhere and decompose.

We kept tempting it out with food, in the end, then cornered it and clobbered it over the head with a bannister pole! Not that that will make your flatmate happy, sorry!!

.

 

[gullshark]

First of all, do NOT poison it. Rat's natural instinct when ill is to find somewhere quiet to die, so it could end up in your floorboards rotting away.

If you want to trap it in a humane trap, although it's bad for them they will prefer stuff like chocolate over cheese, or bait it with some jam on toast. I used to keep em as pets and if they decided to sleep outside the cage for a night I used to have a humane trap baited with that and usually I had em within an hour of laying the trap!

 

[cardboard]

We have mice at the moment, not nice but nowhere as nasty as Rats

Im using poison and they are taking it and i haven't smelt decomposing bodies at all but maybe they are too small to smell

Anything else i can do for mice

 

[eastlondonseagull]

We have mice at the moment, not nice but nowhere as nasty as Rats

Im using poison and they are taking it and i haven't smelt decomposing bodies at all but maybe they are too small to smell

Anything else i can do for mice

These work beautifully, with a bit of Mars Bar as bait... the last thing they do is nip

 

[Barrel of Fun]

We have mice at the moment, not nice but nowhere as nasty as Rats

Im using poison and they are taking it and i haven't smelt decomposing bodies at all but maybe they are too small to smell

Anything else i can do for mice

You can buy humane traps very cheaply. Peanut butter is good at tempting the little guys in. Important to let them out further than 1 mile from your house as they have fairly goood honing instincts.

I spent some time in South America during my gap year. We were happily using flour from a massive sack until we got to a certain level and it started to smell a bit odd. A little bit of digging found a decomposing mouse who had munched his way into the middle of it and died of either suffocation or over eating.

 

[brulee]

get a cat

 

[Barrow Boy]

Get one of these, here's Tiddles enjoying his daily swim before kicking some serious rat arse.

 

[Mackenzie]

Poison, not immediate and decomposition odour.
Council, f***ing useless.
Traps-humane cage and bait, OK but disposal problem.
-killer trap, quick and bin the consequences


Conclusion- Get a whack off trap and bin the fucker.

 

[glasfryn]

Get one of these, here's Tiddles enjoying his daily swim before kicking some serious rat arse.

the answer is simple and a three letter word ...........CAT..........

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

I want a cat, but will be moving to surrey in october (yay) so can't really get one

I have a humane trap, but they're in the cavity / under the floorboards so won't help. I also don't have a car, so can't exactly get on a bus with a rat! Quite tempted to catch the buggers and leave them outside in the cage to die of hunger!

Could get a big trap, but they cost money which i don't have, and i wouldn't like cleaning up the mess!

Will phone the council again tomorrow - and will use BG's tip!

Starting to feel rather itchy!