Rat poison tips

scorza · 6 Aug 2012 at 13:38

Yesterday evening I saw a rat running across my garden - eugh

I bought some rat poison from B&Q this lunch time but now I'm wondering about the neighbourhood cats and how to stop them being poisoned. There are a couple that I've seen in my garden. Any tips on this? or on why the rats have suddenly started appearing? Quite a few of my neighbours grow a bit of food in their gardens - would this be what's attracting them?

Mat · 6 Aug 2012 at 13:39

Killing rats and mice outside seems like a futile excersize to me... there will be plenty more where that one came from and you'll never get them all.

Fire_fly · 6 Aug 2012 at 13:47

You don't have a rat you have rats. About the best you can do is make sure that they can't get into your house. For every rat you kill outside one more will take its place.

MeEsH BaKkA · 6 Aug 2012 at 13:50

Go to your local re-homing centre and get a a cat or 2.

LOAM · 6 Aug 2012 at 13:57

Flash flooding drains force them to make an appearance. I personally wouldn't bother with poison as its likely that you will A. Not see one again until they are next forced out and B. The cats, if there are some in the neighbourhood will be busy dispatching any that are top side anyway.

As horrid as people thinks rats are, poison is a dreadful way to be killed.

yhack · 6 Aug 2012 at 14:18

It's their house now. You'd better find a new one.

Squark · 6 Aug 2012 at 14:26

Don't eat any, there's my tip

Maximum Triceratops · 6 Aug 2012 at 14:29

Ignore it, there are rats everywhere, bin the poison aswell.

elmarko · 6 Aug 2012 at 14:34

"Please don't poison me!"

HEADRAT · 6 Aug 2012 at 14:36

Long live rats

ColEx · 6 Aug 2012 at 14:42

I wouldn't use poison, if they eat it and die in some random place and decompose (could be in side your house) it will smell pretty bad for a while.

realBabelfish · 6 Aug 2012 at 15:01

am i the only one who think cats are worse than rats?

i dont find rat **** all over my garden. ****ing hate cats. if you dont want a real pet dont get one, dont get a cat

wazza300 · 6 Aug 2012 at 15:02

atleast cats bury their poop!!!

Mat · 6 Aug 2012 at 15:03

Not in my garden they dont :mad:

MeEsH BaKkA · 6 Aug 2012 at 16:40

Probably fox **** cats are good at hiding their turds, headless animals are annoying though.

scorza · 6 Aug 2012 at 20:32

Topical thread as it turns out - Panorama is featuring on councils cutting or charging for their pest control services, potentially leading to an increase in the number of rats etc knocking about. I noticed that my district council charged quite a lot of money for their pest control service now...

ince · 6 Aug 2012 at 20:49

Wear some gloves when handling the poison stuff

danza · 6 Aug 2012 at 21:56

Buy a gun and lay out bait.