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Help-Appeared this morning Front garden-Seen a field mouse in back garden a month ago

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
     B) 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Mouse traps won't do it ... you might catch the field mouse but you don't want to do that do you?  You want to get the rat/s.   They're too big to be caught in a mouse trap.  

    This is the sort of thing you need 

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/25031180024?iid=133489725393

    The blocks of 'bait' will prevent it being taken by rats to store somewhere that it could be found by a child or a pet.  

    Unfortunately Bromadiolone is a serious risk to barn owls, so best avoided - more info here: https://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/hazards-solutions/rodenticides/safer-rat-control/
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good point @stephentame

    I’m no longer on a smallholding so my info is a bit out of date. 

    However, anyone live-trapping and releasing rats anywhere near my property would not be popular. I would only suggest livetrapping to someone prepared to dispatch the rats humanely. Not many people are. 

    Difficult. I prefer the Jack Russell method myself. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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