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LeeBee

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773 posts

291 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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Does anyone know anything on rats or mice?, I been working on the S2 today and noticed some rodent shites in the under bonnet area, now normally I am not bothered by this (my workshop is on a farm so quite normal in winter months) but the said shites are about 1" long! , now this is worrying (I shut the bonnet and came home), so what size creature does this sort of thing? I think they/it are after a feed on my thermotec!

Cheers

LeeBee (getting baseball bat ready!)

atg

21,362 posts

279 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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Tigers

LeeBee

Original Poster:

773 posts

291 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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I only have one of those in my tank

Cheers

LeeBee

djburns

80 posts

277 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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After getting my newly purchased S home, I was having a good poke around under the bonnet and found a load of hazelnut shells with the top neatly taken off resting on top of the engine. Never found the animal involved but come to think of it there was a bit of a whiff from the air vents....

John

sipow

14,700 posts

274 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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start her up ,theyre soon go apparently bits of corn with arsnic on is meant to work

tvrgnut

funkyboogalooo

1,844 posts

275 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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1" long shites, wow thats some mouse, bet its got big scary teeth too!

marki

15,763 posts

277 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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how are you supposed to
double click on that then

LeeBee

Original Poster:

773 posts

291 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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1" long shites, wow thats some mouse, bet its got big scary teeth too!



That's what I was afraid of!, might take the manifolds off and run the car for a bit, that should do it!

Cheers

LeeBee

johno

8,520 posts

289 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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'Roasted Rats' !

That'd be nice for dinner !!

Can't believe you're still in that shed ! I thought you were moving.

I suggest you keep the doors on the car shut as their tastes may get a little more expensive than thermotec. Having dealt with this stuff of late if they have been eating it you won't be able to burn them out anyway, does tend to insulate against heat !!

Good luck with your tiger hunting !

Cheers

Mark

LeeBee

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773 posts

291 months

Tuesday 8th January 2002
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Can't believe you're still in that shed ! I thought you were moving.



Ere whats wrong with my shed-sorry WORKSHOP, it can still house 5 cars and tools (plus wildlife!), no seriously I would like to move to larger premises but I will have to do the S's full time and at the moment it's not economically viable (mind you if I stopped giving free advice! ), I am looking into it though as it does need sorting out!

Cheers

LeeBee

muley

1,453 posts

288 months

Wednesday 9th January 2002
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Try a rat trap - like a big moustrap. Watch your fingers when setting it. Rats can take bait without setting it off sometimes, so secure the cheese with a bent paperclip or similar. They don't like it up 'em!

LeeBee

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773 posts

291 months

Wednesday 9th January 2002
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Found out what they were after...........used tea bags!, stopped leaving them about now so that should be the end of it, hopefully

Cheers

LeeBee

Ali_D

1,115 posts

291 months

Thursday 10th January 2002
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You need a big cat - not a Jag but a erm, big, erm, cat.

jondokic

385 posts

274 months

Thursday 10th January 2002
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There are Coypu in the UK (they escaped from fur farms) Could probably nibble its way through a whole car The rat's probably a more likely candidate though-Rentokill can supply poison boxes big enough to take a rat. Rat traps are fine until you stand on one. Ouch


Yours, Jon Dokic

LeeBee

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773 posts

291 months

Thursday 10th January 2002
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Crikey!, forget traps I need a gun!



Cheers

LeeBee

S2 Giles

2,871 posts

282 months

Thursday 10th January 2002
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Lee come on, own up......theres no toilet in your workshop is there !!! & you are there for many hours at a time !!!


Giles

johno

8,520 posts

289 months

Thursday 10th January 2002
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Being as I am from the country when I was at school I was taught about these here Coypu things and how we killed 'em locally.

They used to trap 'em quite easy down along the ditches and dikes (you've got a lake outside the shed Lee !)in chicken wire type cages.

To kill 'em you stuck a stick in the top of their head.

Now this is not rocket science here, but Coypu's have an extremely soft skull which makes this form of murder much easier.

So off to B&Q for you Lee for some cages and some sticks ! Pop into Tesco's and grab some suitable bait and you can have hours of murderous fun !!!

Was I really taught that in school, that's horrifying !!

Dave_H

996 posts

290 months

Thursday 10th January 2002
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Mark,

You don't have any School day tips on how to catch/kill Herons do you?

Bugger keeps eating my fish

LeeBee

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773 posts

291 months

Thursday 10th January 2002
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(you've got a lake outside the shed Lee !)


OI it's a workshop! and I believe they are "Lagoons?" cheeky monkey!

Cheers

LeeBee

LeeBee

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773 posts

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Thursday 10th January 2002
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Lee come on, own up......theres no toilet in your workshop is there !!! & you are there for many hours at a time !!!



That's why the lakes, sorry lagoons are there I go home for the other seeing as we are in crude mode

Cheers

LeeBee
P.S go on admit it you wanted to have a wee didn't you!