If you have them make sure you wear gloves when around the compost heap. Any small nick or cut can let the virus (I think it's a virus rather than bacteria) in that causes leptospirosis. My father was a farmer and contracted this and was lucky to survive. Hence I have no qualms about killing them.
Mr Raspberry, you're absolutely right. When I was a child a boy in the next village died from leptospirosis contracted because there was a damaged sewer near his home which attracted rats to his garden.
I will put rat bait down in safe bait boxes at the first sign of rats in our garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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If you have them make sure you wear gloves when around the compost heap. Any small nick or cut can let the virus (I think it's a virus rather than bacteria) in that causes leptospirosis. My father was a farmer and contracted this and was lucky to survive. Hence I have no qualms about killing them.
Mr Raspberry, you're absolutely right. When I was a child a boy in the next village died from leptospirosis contracted because there was a damaged sewer near his home which attracted rats to his garden.
I will put rat bait down in safe bait boxes at the first sign of rats in our garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.