Off Topic Rats.

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Phil West-Upper. said:
Don't know if this is true or not but I was told that who ever is responsible for the raised railway track that circles Hull to the Docks have stopped baiting it. This has been the case for the past two years and the rat/rodent problem seems the have increased since then. Rat poison does work despite rumours to the contrary.
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That could be right, because the place I was talking about is just two hundred yards from that track. Actually the last rat I saw was a dead one, so hopefully they've poisoned the ****ers.

Couple of weeks ago, near Wilmington Bridge, I saw a big ****er sniffing around in front of me, when a cat jumped out and killed it instantly, really impressive kill that. We need more cats.
 
Kempton said:
That could be right, because the place I was talking about is just two hundred yards from that track. Actually the last rat I saw was a dead one, so hopefully they've poisoned the ****ers.

Couple of weeks ago, near Wilmington Bridge, I saw a big ****er sniffing around in front of me, when a cat jumped out and killed it instantly, really impressive kill that. We need more cats.
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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.
 
Carmine Galante. said:
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.
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Mate, I wasn't joking when I said there are thousands of them down there. 20 yards away there's the old Wilmington railway stop. It's now a Cafe. I don't get my breakfast there :emoticon-0119-puke:
 
Phil West-Upper. said:
£900 ?
Raco all weather Rat poison, 15 chunks for £5.99. Pre baited rat traps £2.99. Are you sure you had a rat problem and not a baby elephant under your floorboards ?
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Can you please recommend a retailer for the purchase of said rat poison.


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Kempton said:
Mate, I wasn't joking when I said there are thousands of them down there. 20 yards away there's the old Wilmington railway stop. It's now a Cafe. I don't get my breakfast there :emoticon-0119-puke:
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Down Bankside, just past the gypsy and traveller camp?
 
A few years ago renovated a bathroom. An additional job was to find where the rats had entered the house and prevent them returning. Pest control had cleared them out but quite naturally the customer did not want them returning. Once the old bathroom had been ripped out, up came a few floorboards to re-route waste pipes. Oddly there was a 1 1/4 waste pipe going into a bedroom. Asked the customer what it was for, a ripped out vanity unit. Aha, the way in. If a rat can get his head through somewhere, the body will follow. Up the ouside ****ter pipe, turn left at the basin waste and oooh, where does this lead?
 
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Not in the to near distant past , I was walking through Brick Lane and It's surrounding streets in the East End , Early hours of the morning , in a small group.

And Lo & Behold , the storm drains in the side of the kerbing , the kerbs are rather high , a foot long " Ginger " almost bright orange RAT appeared upon the footpath in front of Us all.

Fair to say , The screeches & shrieks of the Blokes , sent the rodent back into the drain system. It looked like it was mutated & Its hair/fur was , wet obviously , but looked really spiky , almost hedgehog like.
 
Last year we spotted rats eating out of our bird feeders. We live quite close to a river, the little buggers had tunneled under the fence. The highlight was the cat trapping one up the feeder, the taking it out mid-air as it tried to jump from the feeder to the fence.

To cut a long story short we put poison in all the holes we could find and they haven't put in an appearance since.

We never saw one in the house though.
 
Sir Cheshire Ben said:
Rats reproduce very quickly. Sexually mature at around 25 days & able to reproduce by 42 days.

A gestation period of 21 days & a usual litter size of upto 18. They will mate straight after parturition meaning by the time the litter is weaning the dam is giving birth again.

One female dropping 18 every 3 weeks. If there's 10 females in that first litter it could mean after 9 weeks a single pair have risen to over 200. Six weeks later you have a lot more.

It escalates very quickly so act accordingly.
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Are rats native to Britain, or did they arrive on a merchant ship from Pakistan?
 
Phil West-Upper. said:
Don't know if this is true or not but I was told that who ever is responsible for the raised railway track that circles Hull to the Docks have stopped baiting it. This has been the case for the past two years and the rat/rodent problem seems the have increased since then. Rat poison does work despite rumours to the contrary.
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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.
 
PLT said:
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.
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I had a rat on a couple of occasions - single-storey cottage and a proximity to fields, so when the fields are harvested, they have nowhere to hide and nothing to eat.

My place is rented, and rats/mice problems are paid for by the estate. I asked the pest guy and he said the vermin grow resistance to poison (they eat a bit of bait, are ill, but survive, etc.) and the bait he had was not available in shops. When resistance grows and new poison is developed, the pro's move on to it, and the less-effective poison is made available to retail.

Think of it like antibiotics.
 
i saw THE RATS at a free concert around 1969 in west park.the edger broughten band were on too!!!
 
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