Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

Doozergirl

Chewy, if I give you the address, you may want to park your car outside the house in Chiswick in order to psychologically waft it under my husband's nose. He has been talking about it.

We had a surreal conversation earlier where I suggested he do what Londoners do and took the train into London and my bike for the rest of the journey and pottering around town. He took DS's bike instead asking me why he couldn't take the bike he wanted. I did suggest that mine was the more reliable given that DS throws his down hillsides and brakes by sliding sideways.

He managed two miles on it before it became additional luggage. He didn't ride it to check it was working properly before he put it in my car.

Oh well. He needs the excercise.

lostinrates

Fir getting on train now-ish

GDB2222

Kiwi will do it for nothing.

lostinrates

Its not one rat. ( though I refer to them that way too) And its not yours or theirs. Its a shared community asset.


Personally, in a setting like yours I'd go to the council. They will know what they have been using this year elsewhere in your locality and resistance is beginning to be a REALLY serious problem and rotation is the only real defence ( poison related) we have against that.

Keep your lawn Cut till winter, don't let it build up in spring.

Poor wee creature. I can bring kiwi when I come and visit one day, ( he wouldn't need to come in the house) he probably won't catch anything, but his scent should help be a deterrent for a little while.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Kiwi will do it for nothing.

Lol, cross post.

It has to be there when kiwi is there. Rat is probably cleverer than kiwi, and won't be confine to pn's place, will have rat runs out , that he cannot fit through. Kiwi would enjoy trying though.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

... his scent should help be a deterrent for a little while.

I was looking up rat poison from the likes of B&Q.... it's cheaper than £30+VAT, looks about £10, instead of £36.

Is it your dog's scent, or any dog? And how far away would a dog have to be to put them off? It's just I could borrow a dog from next door once a week if it's any dog.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Lol, cross post.

It has to be there when kiwi is there. Rat is probably cleverer than kiwi, and won't be confine to pn's place, will have rat runs out , that he cannot fit through. Kiwi would enjoy trying though.

I've only ever heard it at dusk..... although I've not tried poking about under the shed with a stick on a daily basis...... I could also try one of those noise making machines that's supposed to scare them off ... except I could only do that via an extension lead in daylight/when I'm here.... wonder if there are battery controlled ones.... I could lob that in the shed.

While I don't mind seeing/hearing the rat, in the garden, at dusk, 1-2x a day .... I don't want to really meet it face to face, or have to deal with a body or traps .... if it runs away from me ...that's fine. I at least now know what I'm dealing with. I do want to kill it - and any other cheeky relatives .... not pu55y footing about here. It's got to go.

If it's nice/dry tomorrow I'll give a bit more of the foliage close to the shed a seeing to. There's not a lot there .... but certainly 1' or so of ivy could go.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was looking up rat poison from the likes of B&Q.... it's cheaper than £30+VAT, looks about £10, instead of £36.

Is it your dog's scent, or any dog? And how far away would a dog have to be to put them off? It's just I could borrow a dog from next door once a week if it's any dog.

Male terrier. Westies might do. . Depends if they learn the westie is harmless next door.

Its more likely kiwi would only buy you very very short term relief, we still get plenty to keep him busy for example. A dog interested in them would help.

Tenner this year might result in the final nail for nearly resistant rats. If you use the council once, then alternate every year afterwards ( putting poison in proper poison boxes) you'd be much better.

Resistance is no joke. Its creeping very close to us here and I live in horror of it. The options then are very, limited, and expensive.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

The options then are very, limited, and expensive.

Shotguns will always work.

Wonder if I can get the neighbours to collect their dog wee and put it in a tub ... and I can pop round and get the tub, then lob that up the side of the shed once a week.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've only ever heard it at dusk..... although I've not tried poking about under the shed with a stick on a daily basis...... I could also try one of those noise making machines that's supposed to scare them off ... except I could only do that via an extension lead in daylight/when I'm here.... wonder if there are battery controlled ones.... I could lob that in the shed.

While I don't mind seeing/hearing the rat, in the garden, at dusk, 1-2x a day .... I don't want to really meet it face to face, or have to deal with a body or traps .... if it runs away from me ...that's fine. I at least now know what I'm dealing with. I do want to kill it - and any other cheeky relatives .... not pu55y footing about here. It's got to go.

If it's nice/dry tomorrow I'll give a bit more of the foliage close to the shed a seeing to. There's not a lot there .... but certainly 1' or so of ivy could go.

Sound resellers don't work, we tried them. Our neighbours swear by them. Which is why wet now have kiwi. Our neighbours btw have about a dozen cats too, but now the ferals have all kicked the bucket the semi domestics cannot keep up..