Is this a rat?

[babelfish]

Rather than something more cuddly like a water vole? I assume the former.



I'm not concerned as long as I can keep them out of the house and out buildings.

We have 150 metres of brook running the length of our property so going to get a lot of wildlife.

When we moved in we found the previous owners had poured a load rat poison under the decking at the rear of the house and in an area of the utility room. Unbelievable for owners of Jack Russell's AFAIAC

The decking has been taken up, replaced with slabs. The holes around various pipes exiting on the ground and first floors have been cemented up.

I have bait boxes around the outside of the house and a couple inside just in case but so far this year we've been ok. Guess this guy might have tried one??

[spitfire-ian]

Yes, it's a rat.

[Rockets7]

Where there’s one there’s a thousand. We live close to the sea, along the front are a series of beach huts. After a warm day with visitors to said beach the rats appear under the huts, thousands and thousands of them. Looks like a moving carpet of rats under the huts.

[Byker28i]

Next door used to keep chickens and kept their food in a rotten shed. When they replaced the shed there was a family of about 30 rats living underneath that scattered, including into my garden, under my cabin etc.

I tried all sort of traps and nothing worked, couldn't use poison because we have a labrador, so in the end it was a board up against the cabin with Milky way on top to make the rats stretch up and dispatched with an air rifle.

[anonymous-user]

Had a big sheet of ply on the lawn last summer and when I moved it (barefoot) I felt something under my foot. A dead rat that had squished up between my toes.

[glennjamin]

Oh yes it a Rat. There's usually there's going to be more than one had a family living under our shed. Now dispatched. In winter they look for somewhere warm and dry. Under decking is a favourite, especially if there is a bird feeder on the decking resulting in constant stream of bits of grain or nuts falling through gaps in decking.what more could they want..

[The Rotrex Kid]

'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This rat is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker!

'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!
'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig!
'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!

THIS IS AN EX-RAT!!

[BoRED S2upid]

Byker28i said:

Next door used to keep chickens and kept their food in a rotten shed. When they replaced the shed there was a family of about 30 rats living underneath that scattered, including into my garden, under my cabin etc.

I tried all sort of traps and nothing worked, couldn't use poison because we have a labrador, so in the end it was a board up against the cabin with Milky way on top to make the rats stretch up and dispatched with an air rifle.

You could have used strategically placed poison that the lab wouldn’t get anywhere close to.

We had a couple living in the garden they used to burrow into the compost heap and eat the veg. Poison in a carrot sorted them out.

[Byker28i]

BoRED S2upid said:

Byker28i said:

Next door used to keep chickens and kept their food in a rotten shed. When they replaced the shed there was a family of about 30 rats living underneath that scattered, including into my garden, under my cabin etc.

I tried all sort of traps and nothing worked, couldn't use poison because we have a labrador, so in the end it was a board up against the cabin with Milky way on top to make the rats stretch up and dispatched with an air rifle.

You could have used strategically placed poison that the lab wouldn’t get anywhere close to.

We had a couple living in the garden they used to burrow into the compost heap and eat the veg. Poison in a carrot sorted them out.

No such thing with a Lab, they have an inbuilt ability to get to anything edible (and inedible), so unless I put it 8 foot up a tree...
Didn't want to take the risk anyway

[Boosted LS1]

I live by a brook and every now and again I'll have a rat on the feeders or in my workshop and then they seem to disappear. I assume they get predated by the local cats. They've never been a problem and certainly haven't become an investaton in the 20 years I've lived here.

I once had one in the cooker. It was a really hot summer and I slept with the doors open. I had to tip it out at the back door as I couldn't catch it. For a day or two I'd kept hearing strange noises as it was climbing around the metal shelves inside. I didn't hurt it and it scampered off.

The one in my workshop lcould have been bitten on the back and was in a wet bedraggled sorry state. I caught it and released it. It could barely walk let alone run.

[Boosted LS1]

Byker28i said:

BoRED S2upid said:

Byker28i said:

Next door used to keep chickens and kept their food in a rotten shed. When they replaced the shed there was a family of about 30 rats living underneath that scattered, including into my garden, under my cabin etc.

I tried all sort of traps and nothing worked, couldn't use poison because we have a labrador, so in the end it was a board up against the cabin with Milky way on top to make the rats stretch up and dispatched with an air rifle.

You could have used strategically placed poison that the lab wouldn’t get anywhere close to.

We had a couple living in the garden they used to burrow into the compost heap and eat the veg. Poison in a carrot sorted them out.

No such thing with a Lab, they have an inbuilt ability to get to anything edible (and inedible), so unless I put it 8 foot up a tree...
Didn't want to take the risk anyway

Those big fat drooling labs. I always get em stretched 8 ft up a tree befor clumping them with an axe. The brown ones are especally rewarding :-) Slobbering drooling fatties ;-)

[babelfish]

Boosted LS1 said:

Byker28i said:

BoRED S2upid said:

Byker28i said:

Next door used to keep chickens and kept their food in a rotten shed. When they replaced the shed there was a family of about 30 rats living underneath that scattered, including into my garden, under my cabin etc.

I tried all sort of traps and nothing worked, couldn't use poison because we have a labrador, so in the end it was a board up against the cabin with Milky way on top to make the rats stretch up and dispatched with an air rifle.

You could have used strategically placed poison that the lab wouldn’t get anywhere close to.

We had a couple living in the garden they used to burrow into the compost heap and eat the veg. Poison in a carrot sorted them out.

No such thing with a Lab, they have an inbuilt ability to get to anything edible (and inedible), so unless I put it 8 foot up a tree...
Didn't want to take the risk anyway

Those big fat drooling labs. I always get em stretched 8 ft up a tree befor clumping them with an axe. The brown ones are especally rewarding :-) Slobbering drooling fatties ;-)

This is my "Slobbering drooling fatty"

[babelfish]

Thanks for the responses. Thought it was but wasn't !00% sure.

As I said above not too bothered as it comes with the territory of where we live.

As long as I can keep the house sealed and out building free of them I'll be happy.

BF

[Boosted LS1]

babelfish said:

Boosted LS1 said:

Byker28i said:

BoRED S2upid said:

Byker28i said:

Next door used to keep chickens and kept their food in a rotten shed. When they replaced the shed there was a family of about 30 rats living underneath that scattered, including into my garden, under my cabin etc.

I tried all sort of traps and nothing worked, couldn't use poison because we have a labrador, so in the end it was a board up against the cabin with Milky way on top to make the rats stretch up and dispatched with an air rifle.

You could have used strategically placed poison that the lab wouldn’t get anywhere close to.

We had a couple living in the garden they used to burrow into the compost heap and eat the veg. Poison in a carrot sorted them out.

No such thing with a Lab, they have an inbuilt ability to get to anything edible (and inedible), so unless I put it 8 foot up a tree...
Didn't want to take the risk anyway

Those big fat drooling labs. I always get em stretched 8 ft up a tree befor clumping them with an axe. The brown ones are especally rewarding :-) Slobbering drooling fatties ;-)

This is my "Slobbering drooling fatty"

Hog roast lol :-)

[Boosted LS1]

Boosted LS1 said:

babelfish said:

Boosted LS1 said:

Byker28i said:

BoRED S2upid said:

Byker28i said:

Next door used to keep chickens and kept their food in a rotten shed. When they replaced the shed there was a family of about 30 rats living underneath that scattered, including into my garden, under my cabin etc.

I tried all sort of traps and nothing worked, couldn't use poison because we have a labrador, so in the end it was a board up against the cabin with Milky way on top to make the rats stretch up and dispatched with an air rifle.

You could have used strategically placed poison that the lab wouldn’t get anywhere close to.

We had a couple living in the garden they used to burrow into the compost heap and eat the veg. Poison in a carrot sorted them out.

No such thing with a Lab, they have an inbuilt ability to get to anything edible (and inedible), so unless I put it 8 foot up a tree...
Didn't want to take the risk anyway

Those big fat drooling labs. I always get em stretched 8 ft up a tree befor clumping them with an axe. The brown ones are especally rewarding :-) Slobbering drooling fatties ;-)

This is my "Slobbering drooling fatty"

Hog roast lol :-) Don't tell him you stole his nuts!