Melv 2...

[melv16]

..rats 0:-) gorra nuther one this afternoon:-)

[TonyV]

Keep putting the poison down

[Smowball]

In the garden?? Can’t remember ever seeing one lol

[TonyV]

To add do you know where they are coming from? You really need to find source. I've had them in a compost heap and log pile.

[melv16]

Don't like using poison. Used a trap baited with chocolate raisen.

[melv16]

They're under the shed. They feed on the sunflower hearts under the bird feeders.

[TonyV]

Ok melv your choice, but you will never get rid of a family if you are using traps. Where are you realeasing them to, so they don't cause the same problem they are causing you?

[melv16]

I'm not using humane traps, tony. I have a fox which comes into the garden and I leave it out for him.

[choux]

melv, do you see the fox take the rat? Rats will eat dead rats. They usually take the eyes first, as we have noticed.

You only have 14 more to go then? ;)

[TonyV]

Ok Melv keeping the food chain going then, which is no bad thing. But you need to get to the root cause of the rats and not give them an easy food source.

[DTCwordfan]

Need a recipe - there's a restaurant between Bruges and Antwerp that will cook them for you.

[choux]

Ratatouille?

[Smowball]

Lol

[melv16]

It's the main problem with feeding the birds, tony. I don't get many, so I'll put up with them.

[melv16]

Got another overnight. The fox got there before me, just a head left in the trap:-(

[melv16]

They've took to taking bait out of the traps without setting them off. I've borrowed an air rifle...they don't like it up 'em

[melv16]

Shot 2 today:-)

[ladybirder]

Melv you will never get rid because while a food source is there more will keep coming.
I was forced to stop feeding the birds because the same happened to me and the residents in my block complained. They even ran up the metal feeder pole to get to the food in the bird feeder.

[melv16]

They come from the allotments behind the garden, so they come into the garden anyway. They've gnawed holes in the shed floor and walls when I'm not feeding the birds. As I've said earlier in the thread it's something I'll put up with.

[melv16]

Just got another:-)

[melv16]

No sign today.