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Rat

Saw a rat casually trotting out of the Passage at Cavendish Road.

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Permalink Reply by EMC2 on October 9, 2017 at 20:48

I regularly see him wandering along the New River. He gets about.

Permalink Reply by EyeSpy on October 9, 2017 at 21:03

Doing well to avoid all the local cats.

Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on October 9, 2017 at 22:59
Yup, there are gazillions. I see at least a couple every day when walking through Finsbury Park.
Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on October 10, 2017 at 6:38
One of my neighbour's cats is a bit of a champion ratter and likes to bring home killed ratlings as gifts. For everyone she gets though there must be hundreds just in her territory she doesn't!
Seriously though, they only thrive where food is plentiful and the amount of dumped crap including food waste around here is like a free rat buffet.
Permalink Reply by EyeSpy on October 10, 2017 at 9:42
Must have escaped from River Park House.
Permalink Reply by Antoinette on October 10, 2017 at 15:45

I had one make a beeline for my ankles when I was having a late night smoke in the garden the other night.  Scared the bejesus out of me.  I've always worked on the basis that they can rustle about in the undergrowth all they like and I can pretend they are something more wholesome like hedgehogs or toads, but I don't want to be aggressed!  The more senior of the foxes that visits my garden is also an experienced ratter.  Seen him take out a few.

Permalink Reply by Ms on October 13, 2017 at 8:20

Well hooray for foxes then!  I loathe rats, they may be very intelligent (which makes them all the scarier) but they carry and spread disease. One of our cats had his tail bitten by a rat and it turned into an abscess and then an expensive vet's bill!

Permalink Reply by Madeline on October 13, 2017 at 9:41

Anybody remember the film 'Willard'?

Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on October 13, 2017 at 10:29
Who can forget the opening song ‘Ben’. A love song to a rat by Michael Jackson
Permalink Reply by Aligator on October 13, 2017 at 14:03

Let's hope you don't get one of the freaking creatures dead under your floorboards like we do now. It's stinking like hell and we can't even access under the floorboards to get the rotting thing out.

If they are somewhere you can easily access to set traps, get yourself one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00XL33EB0?psc=1

We used camembert cheese as bait and caught 4 in the garden in one week.

Permalink Reply by Madeline on October 13, 2017 at 14:12

We had to use a humane trap after a beautiful thrush was accidently caught in a 'snap-and-kill' trap. Then had to despatch the live rat. That trap above would probably stop most birds from getting caught but not our nosey magpie.

Permalink Reply by tigha on October 13, 2017 at 17:22
Why would you want to kill them, esp as they may get stuck under your floor boards to rot
Either get a cat to scare them away, or befriend it. I’m told they make great pets.

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