Bastard rats

[gentlegreen]

Poisoning is the only reliable way - but they eventually laugh at the stuff you buy in the shops - but there are ways around that so long as you don't have pets.
The smell lasts as long as it takes for the maggots to finish off the corpse so it depends on the time of year. A good flush of flies and that's it.
Far too late, thanks to weepiper I filled the gap around the kitchen waste pipe with steel scourers and expanding foam

 

[Fingers]

You need one of these mate

 

[StoneRoad]

I agree - a dead rat really stinks - the site where I work had a bit of an infestation a couple of years ago, cue trying to find source of smell in order to cremate remains quickly before the flies was a nightmare. Cheapskate landlord would not pay for proper extermination and clean up afterwards, luckily the rodents found somewhere else (a patch of scrub woodland) to live.

 

[sovereignb]

If it's a rat (or rather rats) then don't put down poison. The smell of rotting rat is ungodly.

Honestly, i think I would put up with the smell for the comfort of knowing the fucker was dead. Its causing me serious agro.

 

[Boycey]

my house is a bit peculiar, to the degree i can't really go into on here...

i would fear for a cat or dog living with me were it to be lost in the abyss that surrounds me. i've plugged up most of the holes and set up a 4KV plasma arc trap baited with peanut butter. i smeared the PB on a terminal last week, went out for the night and came home to find the PB missing but no dead rat (!!!?!), no sign of ratty for a couple days after but it made a return. cue me, running round my flat naked with a loaded rifle at 4:30am. still didn't see the fucker but let off the round in the general direction i thought it was. heard it run away, no sign since.

the more efficiently baited (ie. can only get the peanut butter if it touches both terminals) has sat there untouched for nearly a week now. and i've had a few decent nights sleep which has seriously helped my mental state.

poison seems a bit unsporting to me, aside from the ungodly smell (easily fixed if i were to turn the trap into an ozone generator), there's something that i don't like about it. we talk about "humane killing" but put down a poison that guarantees a painful and horrible death? doesn't seem right.

if i actually shoot the fucker it's getting taxidermified.

 

[Casually Red]

They should develop some sort of genetically targeted virus that wipes every last one of the verminous bastards out for good .

 

[Boycey]

An incredibly cute and friendly kitten has turned up! He/she is wandering around my place rubbing up on things. The arc trap is off permanently. And i'm slightly besotted. Abyss cat is well sweet.

 

[equationgirl]

Poisoning is the only reliable way - but they eventually laugh at the stuff you buy in the shops - but there are ways around that so long as you don't have pets.
The smell lasts as long as it takes for the maggots to finish off the corpse so it depends on the time of year. A good flush of flies and that's it.
Far too late, thanks to weepiper I filled the gap around the kitchen waste pipe with steel scourers and expanding foam

Ffs mate you've been nagged about that by many of us more than once. I'm glad to hear you've fixed it.

 

[tommers]

I think our friends are back. we recently had our bathroom done and I've noticed a waste pipe shaped hole in our wall that wasn't filled.

Heard very familiar scratching at 4am on Monday morning. Hopefully just a mouse but I think I know it isn't.

Fucking cunts. I've filled the hole with steel mesh and I'm going to ask my neighbour for some cement but seriously, twice??

 

[StoneRoad]

Neighbouring Farm's outhouses seem to supply the whole area at times with either mice or rats or both. Luckily we also have foxes and owls to keep the numbers under control. It has been a while since we've had any sort of problem (last incursion into our shed was a couple of winters ago), although Mr Fox went past a couple of days ago carrying some prey, not his usual rabbit !

 

[extra dry]

http://www.google.co.th/search?hl=e...%2Fmetal-Rat-Trap-Cage_335470947.html;800;600

 

[bi0boy]

Rats are cute

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Those freaky pointy nails though...

 

[tommers]

http://www.google.co.th/search?hl=e...%2Fmetal-Rat-Trap-Cage_335470947.html;800;600

Yeah, but then you have to drown them. Better to just kill them straight off.

 

[bi0boy]

Those freaky pointy nails though...

on ickle fingers ahh

 

[Ax^]

 

[sojourner]

Topical for me. Saw a great fat bastard rat in our yard the other day. I reckon it's the dirty bastard neighbours. None of them recycle a bloody thing, despite all the kit being free, so they end up with overflowing bins all the time, filthy nappies, the lot

Have rung Environmental Health and reported it anyway, but we're having a fire this weekend and it's not exactly comforting knowing there's fucking rats running round

 

[DotCommunist]

whats cute is the ones you get from the petshop- they are generations of domestic and lab stock. Whats not quite so cute is the ones the size of a terrier that live on rubbish and darkness and yearn only to feast on your soul