It's telling me that if we didn't attempt to control them we'd soon have a major problem.
Don't get me wrong ... I don't advocate inhumane treatment of any animal and we have to take precautions against damaging the wider environment ... but I've seen the results when rats haven't been controlled on a farm ... not good.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My point is that the effort put into killing them might be more appropriately and effectively directed elsewhere. I could poison the rats and mice in my garden but I suspect that numbers would build up again unless I can kill the rats in my neighbours garden and in his neighbours etc etc. I have a number of compost heaps and I feed the birds all year round so there is a rat population out there. I know fellow allotment holders panic when they see them on the plots. We only deal with them when they come indoors.
My view is partly because I don't like to kill things but also genuinely because I don't see the point (in most circumstances)
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Wouldn't it trap other things besides rats, some of which you'd be sorry to kill?
I suppose we should be pleased at not having to tackle this http://howzak.com/top-free-diy-bear-removal-tips-tricks-2018/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Lots of people killing lots of rats in a variety of unpleasant ways. Yet there's still lots of rats...isn't that telling us something?
It's telling me that if we didn't attempt to control them we'd soon have a major problem.
Don't get me wrong ... I don't advocate inhumane treatment of any animal and we have to take precautions against damaging the wider environment ... but I've seen the results when rats haven't been controlled on a farm ... not good.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My point is that the effort put into killing them might be more appropriately and effectively directed elsewhere. I could poison the rats and mice in my garden but I suspect that numbers would build up again unless I can kill the rats in my neighbours garden and in his neighbours etc etc. I have a number of compost heaps and I feed the birds all year round so there is a rat population out there. I know fellow allotment holders panic when they see them on the plots. We only deal with them when they come indoors.
My view is partly because I don't like to kill things but also genuinely because I don't see the point (in most circumstances)
If the rat population remained stable if left alone I would see your point, but it doesn't ... It increases exponentially ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.