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Electric Rat Killers - Anyone Used One, Do They Work?
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Opened the garden shed after winter to find evidence of rat activity.
Need to get rid of the critters and looking at the options. Poison, not keen as probably won't be able to find bodies - if they are then eaten by other animals, this could harm those. Conventional snap trap, possibly messy and could get hedgehogs. I'm interested in battery-operated electric traps that supposedly kill instantly - I could put these off the floor, where the varmints have been climbing.
Anyone any experience of these (i.e. do they work)?
Need to get rid of the critters and looking at the options. Poison, not keen as probably won't be able to find bodies - if they are then eaten by other animals, this could harm those. Conventional snap trap, possibly messy and could get hedgehogs. I'm interested in battery-operated electric traps that supposedly kill instantly - I could put these off the floor, where the varmints have been climbing.
Anyone any experience of these (i.e. do they work)?
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rat infestation is more serious than you think
I wd ring the council and ask if the rat man can come out
based on phoshamide or warfarin - and it has to be delayed so those clever rats nibble a bit go away and wait and then come back
the bodies should rot in the rat holes so that advertised to other rats it is not a good place
you are think of killing a rat sort of cat sized with a shock from a torch battery? good luck
warfarin resistance - the rat has "learnt" to metabolise it - that is an enzyme that can break it down, evolution has changed so it can break down warfarin efficiently - sortta kinda happeneing wiv covid
hey how do I know so much about rats?
amazing what a uni course - wind in the willows, the biochemisty!
can teach a fella
I wd ring the council and ask if the rat man can come out
based on phoshamide or warfarin - and it has to be delayed so those clever rats nibble a bit go away and wait and then come back
the bodies should rot in the rat holes so that advertised to other rats it is not a good place
you are think of killing a rat sort of cat sized with a shock from a torch battery? good luck
warfarin resistance - the rat has "learnt" to metabolise it - that is an enzyme that can break it down, evolution has changed so it can break down warfarin efficiently - sortta kinda happeneing wiv covid
hey how do I know so much about rats?
amazing what a uni course - wind in the willows, the biochemisty!
can teach a fella
blimey and I havent ecen started on the black rat ( rattus rattus ) and the usual one rattus norvegicus
and before you start - r norveg eats more and more widely so can survive - the black rat flea - xenopsylla cheopsis needs a blood meal from a black rat to complete its life cycle ( hey Darwen again)
and r noveg wont do ( neeva a human)
hence no plague
yes rat fleas really are specific to species of rat
and before you start - r norveg eats more and more widely so can survive - the black rat flea - xenopsylla cheopsis needs a blood meal from a black rat to complete its life cycle ( hey Darwen again)
and r noveg wont do ( neeva a human)
hence no plague
yes rat fleas really are specific to species of rat
PP "dogs do - they have to be trained as rat killas"
I have never trained my dogs to kill anything. My current old boy used to be an excellent ratter when he was younger but he used to leave them around the garden for me to find....at least he didn't bring them indoors. He still loves a good old snuffle and scrabble around but either he can't catch them now or there are less around me, I suspect the latter as my neighbours have changed and the new ones seem to be more fastidious about rubbish storage and have cleared a lot of the undergrowth in their gardens. I keep wild corners in mine but also keep a close eye on who uses them.
I have never trained my dogs to kill anything. My current old boy used to be an excellent ratter when he was younger but he used to leave them around the garden for me to find....at least he didn't bring them indoors. He still loves a good old snuffle and scrabble around but either he can't catch them now or there are less around me, I suspect the latter as my neighbours have changed and the new ones seem to be more fastidious about rubbish storage and have cleared a lot of the undergrowth in their gardens. I keep wild corners in mine but also keep a close eye on who uses them.
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