N.O.S. Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Once the sugar beet are lifted, quite a few rats will be looking for winter lodgings. I've just been repairing some rodent-damaged Autoar wiring, and it got me thinking - any good ideas for keeping them away from wiring / seats/ canvas? After suffering rat damage I always store canvases in mouse-proof metal cupboards over the winter, but it IS a bit of a nuisance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted September 25, 2008 Author Share Posted September 25, 2008 I should qualify that by explaining that I have to take the jimmy canvas and hoops down to get it into the shed - it is the folded canvas that mice and rats seem keen to chew holes in, not canvas left up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 They also chew wheel lashing straps, as I found to my cost last winter. It can be plastic and totally inedible but they will still chew it up for bedding! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woa2 Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 I have a 1 year old Jack Russell terrier dog (called Monty) and I would like to 'introduce' him to ratting. If anyone in the Reading area needs Rats caught, I will bring him along. At present he rips Dog toys to pieces - a standard tennis ball would last 15 minutes with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radiomike7 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Our local Indian restaurant serves up a superb rat dish - rodent josh.:-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Adds a whole new dimension to 'Rat Packs' :shake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
croc Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 The best way to stop rats is to block up their holes, a farmer I knew reckoned a mix of cocoa powder and plaster of paris does the trick. I suspect he was just to tight to buy proper poison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redcap Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 The best way to stop rats is to block up their holes Erm... :wow: I think a careful re-write there might help :evil::whistle: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 A Nun (don't ask) once taught me how to get rid of rats. Smash a bottle up into small pieces and then mix the glass with loads of pepper. You then put this mix into their tunnels entrances. They then try and dig their way out of the tunnel because of the pepper during which time they shread their feet......I tried it - it didn't work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreadavide Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Best solution is a mix of marble powder, soap powder and pepper powder. They smell pepper, then sneeze. By doing this they loose equilibrium and slip over the soap powder. Hit with head the marble powder and die.... 8-) Andrea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Running a stables as you can imagine Rats everywhere. We couldn't use poision with kid's about and livestock so it was airguns and terriers, though a bit like trying to empty a pond with a leacking bucket. One night staying on the yard with a sick horse, very hot only me and ex there so sleeping nacked. Middle of the night urgent pressure on bladder, so up I gets, stuck on a pair of shoes, no socks or laces and wanders to the place of easment. Just contemplating the world when the biggest rat you've ever seen pops out from behind the toilet. I yelled, (Well you would wouldn't you?) at which the terrier woke up and comes hairing into the littlest room, and it was about to get smaller. Rat sees terrier takes off at warp sped round the walls, Terrier goes in pusuit. me in the middle in full flow. So I'm trying to keep on target rat is doing wall of death round the place terrier is trying to cut it off. Terrier eventually gets rat, all stops, what passes for calm returns, where is ex in all this? Rolling about nearly wetting herself laughing. Don't like rats!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Thread cleaned up & non-relevant content removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 buy some cats .........:idea: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 If you want to see rats - take a cruise through Seven Kings of a night-time! The rubbbish bins in the side roads from the take-aways and restaurants are full of the damned things. We ran over one in the explorer - ye gods, you should have felt the thud and bump as the wheels rolled over it... Made me mind up there and then I wouldn't go walking down those streets of a night!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 The story is your never more than twenty feet from a rat. :shake: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtistsRifles Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 The story is your never more than twenty feet from a rat. :shake: Now there's a cheery thought!!! :argh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Well, you know there is always something watching! :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiketheBike Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 Rats dug/ate through the concrete floor in the garage. Council pest control got rid of them, but said if we had problems with rats, they would continue to dig atthe same spot, even after filling in with new concrete. Said the only way to stop them would be to mix broken glass and chicken wire in with the concrete mix for the hole. Only other way I can think is to electrify everything....thought of that once for our back fence to deter other scallies...but missus said it would be dangerous for our kids...oh well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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