We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.
This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.
PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING: Hello Forumites! In order to help keep the Forum a useful, safe and friendly place for our users, discussions around non-MoneySaving matters are not permitted per the Forum rules. While we understand that mentioning house prices may sometimes be relevant to a user's specific MoneySaving situation, we ask that you please avoid veering into broad, general debates about the market, the economy and politics, as these can unfortunately lead to abusive or hateful behaviour. Threads that are found to have derailed into wider discussions may be removed. Users who repeatedly disregard this may have their Forum account banned. Please also avoid posting personally identifiable information, including links to your own online property listing which may reveal your address. Thank you for your understanding.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
The Forum now has a brand new text editor, adding a bunch of handy features to use when creating posts. Read more in our how-to guide
Dead Rat!
Wafoo
Posts: 95 Forumite
just a quickie,my daughter has moved into a house as she's in Portsmouth uni,next doors cat has killed a rat and they want rid of it,will the local council enviromental health get rid of it,or have they got to do it,I'm 150 miles away so can't do it myself and it's a houseful of girly girls,
Total debt 2003 £29658
Debt now £ 21 but haggling!,Haggled now gone up!
Sorry,forgot the bloody card!!!!!!,was £6000 now down to £4896,now down to £3198,now £2756!
Debt now £ 21 but haggling!,Haggled now gone up!
Sorry,forgot the bloody card!!!!!!,was £6000 now down to £4896,now down to £3198,now £2756!
0
Comments
-
Tell them to chuck it in the bin, or into the neighbours garden.0
-
If it's dead why don't they just chuck the blessed thing in the dustbin? Wearing heavy-duty Marigolds of course. Or if they don't fancy doing that they could always consider chucking it into the neighbour's garden for the cat to polish it off0
-
They could make a bolognese with it if things are tight.0
-
This may help:
http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/living/677.html
Although that might be to do with living rats. A dead rat may count as very low priority...
Obviously if it takes the council a few days to come around then the smell could get pretty bad! My advice would be the same as above. Buy some marigolds and some freezer bags, put it in the freezer bag and then throw it as far as you can
Have any of these girly girls got a boyfriend who can do the dirty work? If not - do they need one? 
0 -
A group of girly girls at university and they have no big strong male friends around. I don't believe it!0
-
Another year under this govt and they'll be fighting over it...
Ratatouille anyone?0 -
Rats come fitted with a very useful lifting attachment.
Put your hand in a plastic bag, pick the rat up by its lifting attachment and place the rat and bag into a bin.
Surely even girls can do that, can't they???
I'm sure being students they've seen scarier things than that before
British Ex-pat in British Columbia!0 -
just a quickie,my daughter has moved into a house as she's in Portsmouth uni,next doors cat has killed a rat and they want rid of it,will the local council enviromental health get rid of it,or have they got to do it,I'm 150 miles away so can't do it myself and it's a houseful of girly girls,
You may need to ask around some local pubs for a dodgy cat-assassin. If you want to get rid of the cat permanently.
If not then just squirt some water at it from a washing up bottle.
....or do you mean the rat?
I could pop in if you like - I'm not scared. Well not in front of girly students anyway.0 -
If I had a daughter leaving home the first thing I'd teach her would be how to deal with rats of all varieties
Seriously, don't encourage such frothy behaviour - are they all drama students?
As the others have said, glove up, newspaper/carrier bag over it and bin it. Or bury it with full funeral rites and a bit of poetry and guitar strumming.................0 -
Binmen + girly girls in distress = rat gone.0
This discussion has been closed.
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply
Categories
- All Categories
- 354K Banking & Borrowing
- 254.3K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
- 455.3K Spending & Discounts
- 247.1K Work, Benefits & Business
- 603.7K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
- 178.3K Life & Family
- 261.2K Travel & Transport
- 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
- 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
- 37.7K Read-Only Boards