Rats in cavity walls

SMed said:
My cat keeps bringing little mice in all the time, almost always alive, and lets them loose around the house. They don't last long though, usually find them dead the next morning, usually in one piece.
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It's bringing you a gift, you have to eat it. ;)
 
Some good advice here I think.

The mrs is allergic to cats so that a non starter sadly.

I've just spotted another one at the bottom of the garden, looked behind the slabs, there is a small gap between the two, and there's some droppings. Nice.

I'll see what the guy has to say tomorrow but I've not loving the idea of the smell. Ive 2 kids under 5 that I don't want coming in contact with the bugger
 
Buy several cans of expanding foam and spray all of them into the rat hole.*





*Don't actually do this. If you do, video the aftermath :)
 
If you don't want to kill them, get a humane trap to catch them. Then to relocate them, use a ratapult to launch them into the gardens about 6 houses down.
 
Get a ferret, can go into the hole and will kill and bring the rat out. Or alternatively leave it then and come back to eat later.

They kill mice and rabbits, so I can't see why'd they'd fuss about fresh rat.
 
Pour in petrol until you can smell it inside the house (at least a couple of gallons)

Chuck a match in.

Have a baseball bat handy for when the rat comes running out (on fire hopefully),
oh, and a phone for the Fire Brigade just in case.
 
bitslice said:
Pour in petrol until you can smell it inside the house (at least a couple of gallons)

Chuck a match in.

Have a baseball bat handy for when the rat comes running out (on fire hopefully),
oh, and a phone for the Fire Brigade just in case.
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I look forward to you future serial killer trial :D
 
Serves you right for trying to starve the thing to death quite frankly.

On a more helpful note, sprinkle lots of peppermint oil, the concentrated essential oil round the hole, they can't stand the smell of it.

Also remove any sources of food round the place. Put bird food out? Put it on a feeder. Put hedgehog food out? Take up any remains in the morning.

In short, remove their sources of food and make their new home uninviting.
 
ok, so here's an update...

Garden has been tidied (was a bit of a mess before..) and I've moved some stuff about as the little buggers are using the bottom of my garden as a motorway between the big forestry bit by my house and other houses to open the area up.

The rat man told me that the chances of the rat only having one point of entry/exit to the building will be slim so stop loosing sleep over it.

Also, we haven't' heard anything for a few days now, so we're hoping it's no longer in the house.

I put 10 traps down yesterday, in the loft, any dark place in the garden and anywhere else I though they 'might' get to.

I'm hoping to catch him :)
 
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