rats in the kitchen
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Hammer.
Are you sure they are rats? If so, phone the council as they should take care of it.
If they are mice, then your only options are to bait yourself or call in a pest control service (bearing in mind that all they will do is bait and tell you to monitor for up to six weeks). Or you can set traps. Or mouse paper, but that's a little too cruel even for me.
If they are mice, then your only options are to bait yourself or call in a pest control service (bearing in mind that all they will do is bait and tell you to monitor for up to six weeks). Or you can set traps. Or mouse paper, but that's a little too cruel even for me.
Buy a cage and keep them as pets 
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EDIT: Slightly more seriously -
http://acrorats.homestead.com/paypalcageaccessories.html have a look at the item at the bottom of that page.
.EDIT: Slightly more seriously -
http://acrorats.homestead.com/paypalcageaccessories.html have a look at the item at the bottom of that page.
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Don't use poison.
It will coagulate the blood, and if they die out of reach (e.g. in the ceiling / floorboards) then they'll rot there, and stick the place out for months.
It will coagulate the blood, and if they die out of reach (e.g. in the ceiling / floorboards) then they'll rot there, and stick the place out for months.
'some rats' ?!?! How many! Where were they? Just chilling out on the floor? Where did they go after you saw them?!
Find where they are living, and kill them! (With a clawhammer)
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i can type up a way for you to make poison for about 25-30 pounds, you prob have most of the stuff anyway, if you want to kill them all but that wouldnt be a good idea because you could just as easily kill your neighbours .. stick with the traps!!! and put bleach on them
excellent advice
.. stick with the traps!!! and put bleach on themexcellent advice
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Get the Campbell brothers in.
I assume that your title is slightly humorous and that the rats are outside, rather than in your kitchen?
I bought a standard rat-trap which worked wonders, although the fright of hearing it trip and then finding a rat struggling to free its face from the trap will never leave me. (Oh, and the resulting blood and popped eyes - not nice).
I bought a standard rat-trap which worked wonders, although the fright of hearing it trip and then finding a rat struggling to free its face from the trap will never leave me. (Oh, and the resulting blood and popped eyes - not nice).
