Getting rid of rats

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Will probably need to get the MK4 trap. You are correct Notch7. I know. Just a slip. So annoyed by those critters.
 
That's a Mk4 Fenn in an approved cage "tunnel".

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Whatever you decide to do please do not use poison. The rat dies then gets eaten by other animals, like birds of prey, who also die.

Air rifle is definitely the best way. And when you're not killing rats you can get the lads round and shoot beer cans in the garden!
 
Our two Labradors nearly ate a poisoned rat last year, it had ended up on our patio.

Luckily my wife saw it before they had chance!.
 
Whatever you decide to do please do not use poison. The rat dies then gets eaten by other animals, like birds of prey, who also die.

Air rifle is definitely the best way. And when you're not killing rats you can get the lads round and shoot beer cans in the garden!

Beers and air guns............................what could go wrong?


Andy
 
They don't necessarily stop, even then, but there was no corpse in the vicinity, so the perpetrator of this must have survived! ...

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I've several times found several feet of cable in our barn, neatly stripped of all insulation, power still on. I've never found any electrocuted rats.

There are only two possibilities that I can see:
a) They drag a piece of insulated board to stand on while they very delicately nibble round each cable, then take the board away afterwards
b) They turn the power off first, then turn it on again when they have had their fill.

Rats are very clever.
 
I've several times found several feet of cable in our barn, neatly stripped of all insulation, power still on. I've never found any electrocuted rats. There are only two possibilities that I can see:
a) They drag a piece of insulated board to stand on while they very delicately nibble round each cable, then take the board away afterwards
b) They turn the power off first, then turn it on again when they have had their fill. .... Rats are very clever.
:)

To be serious, though, with both your experiences and what I illustrated, there has to be an explanation other than one of the two above :)

Is not one of the most likely explanations that they do, indeed, get shocks, but that since both points of contact will usually be in the vicinity of their mouth, it's pretty unlikley that those shocks will prove fatal?

Kind Regards, John
 

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