Rodent problem

The Angry Welshman said:
Poison if they are in the attic.....
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As someone that has dealt with this kind of thing before, do not use poison if you value your sense of smell. Once they start to rot, the smell is ******* horrific. Anyone that tells you not to worry about it has clearly never smelt it...

Block up the access, then capture and release is far better than the risk of the smell.

Edit: for blocking their access, do it with something that can't be chewed. Like a brick, concrete, etc. Those ******** will eat their way through anything they can bite.
 
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aaronyuri said:
As someone that has dealt with this kind of thing before, do not use poison if you value your sense of smell. Once they start to rot, the smell is ******* horrific. Anyone that tells you not to worry about it has clearly never smelt it...
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+1

I had a rat get in and die under my kitchen cupboards last year. At first I thought it just the bin being a bit smelly... until it got worse... and worse... and worse. Nothing I tried was working so I resorted to pulling all of the kick panels out and finally found the source.

Horrific!
 
We had a rat keep coming in over a couple of weeks. Crashed into my foot before scampering under the fridge on one occasion.

Bought a rat trap and put some lovely food inside, but it was far too clever to be caught by it. Ultimately, just had to make sure there was no accessable food, and then it stopped.

Mice on the other hand... very stupid creatures. They will happily get caught by the same trap over and over. I started recognising them, which prompted me to release them further away (my original ~100m was clearly not enough: even the club-footed one made it back!)
 
We had rats under our floor one year & we sealed their point of entry before putting some poison down. The smell of them decomposing in the height of summer was quite a treat but it was worth it to be rid of them. I hate the buggers, they give me the massive ick for some reason more than any other critters.
 
El Jimben said:
We had rats under our floor one year & we sealed their point of entry before putting some poison down. The smell of them decomposing in the height of summer was quite a treat but it was worth it to be rid of them. I hate the buggers, they give me the massive ick for some reason more than any other critters.
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Were you drunk at the time on taking thsy course if action
 
The Angry Welshman said:
ive not found any of mine thats died from poison, whats the issue? once they eat tge poison the first thing they want is water, so the exit the property to go find it an die
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they could have also escaped then been caught and half eaten by a neighbouring cat/dog... subsequently poisoning them also

Another reason for traps over poison
 
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