Off Topic Rats.

[Ernie Shackleton]

I have just re visited the second sighting of rattus rattus with her indoors and she has reassured me that Charles never saw the ****house, otherwise he’d have done the ****er in three seconds flat.

He looks like a mini Cane Corso and is twice as hard.

Terriers need to see movement.

Mine can blythely walk right past any small creature so long as its still.

The moment it moves, he's on it.

 

[John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.]

Probably a daft question,but why did they have a 'cold' store?

It sounds like they had plenty without having to stock pile it?

Some products need to be at a certain temperature, and just opening the cold store door and having a temperature of -35 would damage the product. Of cause in the summer there it gets up over +30 degrees sometimes.

 

[RichardG]

Never had a rat problem, but did have a mouse problem in a house I was living in. Got a cat and never saw another one. Have moved twice, still got the same cat and never had an inkling of a problem with either rats or mice, despite near(ish) neighbours telling me that they have. I've been told that if any rodents pick up the scent of a cat in your house, they just stay the hell away. Cats can be a pain – and my cat is particularly s*** at everything, including catching smaller animals – but if they keep your house rodent free they're worth it.

 

[Trumpton Tiger.]

If you’re seeing them during the day it means they’re struggling to find food during the night.

That usually means there’s a lot of competition for food and there’s quite a few of them in that area.

In what sense do they 'work'?

I ask because I have had it in my house before, observed that loads has been taken, and only seen the infestation continue to increase. For me that's not working, it's useless.

If it's killing the ones that eat it but that isn't enough to curb the infestation then there's still no point in using it is there?

They have to be stopped from getting in.

It poisons rodents and kills them. If the 'infestation' continues then the rodents that are not taking the bait will breed, obviously. Rodent poison available from retail outlets for sale to the general public has improved recently, new regulations etc. They now contain alphacholalose, which was previously only available to licensed pet control companies. This kills the rodent 'almost immediately' ( trade description) where as the previous ingredient, anticoagulant, 'which can take days before any control is seen' ( trade description) You don't get this sort of detail on CI.