I have a rat that is coming too near to the house for my liking (seen it on the patio a few times) I am paranoid about leaving the back door open at the moment. I do not have bird feeders but my neighbours both sides do. Could some one please explain how bait boxes actually work? Does the rat go inside and die or does one find it dead elsewhere later? Also, is there a danger of something else getting into the box such as a bird? If I were to get a humane trap, how would I dispose of rat?
I've ordered a trap, but it hasn't come yet and I've just seen one of them nosing around the car I have in my back garden. Any advice on how to keep them away from it? I'm going to put a new engine in it so I'd rather not find rat nibbles in the wiring or be swarmed by tiny rats when I'm lifting the old one out.
I don’t think you’ll get several rats in one trap, they are very clever, if one is trapped the others will steer clear. We find now that the only poison that works is Neosorexa, I got the last lot from eBay as the farmers stores were forever running out of it. Find the holes, pore the poison down and put a slate or big stone on the top. look the next day, if it s all gone put more down, do that until there’s still some left. They won’t come out, they prefer to die in the burrows.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Meomye has asked a good question, how to dispose after catching one in an humane trap, they go frantic, we tried it just once, after that we put it in a tank of water. Id rather poison them so you don’t see them. Having an OH who has been a farmer all his life he has no time sentiments where rats are concerned. We’ve seen the effects of illness, the undertakers were reluctant to touch the body, and it had to be buried fairly quickly. Not a nice disease.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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We find now that the only poison that works is Neosorexa, I got the last lot from eBay as the farmers stores were forever running out of it.
Find the holes, pore the poison down and put a slate or big stone on the top.
look the next day, if it s all gone put more down, do that until there’s still some left. They won’t come out, they prefer to die in the burrows.
Id rather poison them so you don’t see them.
Having an OH who has been a farmer all his life he has no time sentiments where rats are concerned.
We’ve seen the effects of illness, the undertakers were reluctant to touch the body, and it had to be buried fairly quickly.
Not a nice disease.