Blooming council did not want to know when I reported a dead rat in my back garden !

Mchambers

Blooming council did not want to know when I reported a dead rat in my back garden ! They just said stick the thing in my dustbin (Great idea as it will stink by the time my dustbin is next emptied) ! She (the council) offered me some other pointless advice like she will not get any pest control people around to my place for a few weeks.

Anyway I have put the rat in my dustbin (I wonder if it can be recycled lol ?) with some gloves and using a spade and plastic bag.

I spoke to my neighbour who told me that he has also found a dead rat in his garden. I am now assuming that another neighbour has already laid rat poison in their garden and is taking effect. Anyway I will still be getting some poison in my garden.

I really do not know we pay council tax when my council has done nothing pro-active to help me.

angryparcel

Councils are useless. i once reported someone had allowed their horse to mess outside my elderly parents front gate (dad 90 and mother 82) and all i got was can they not get a shovel and remove it themselves as we wont send anyone out.
I had just come out of hospital at the time, so i could not remove it, so my parents could not use that gate to get out for feat of slipping, so they could not go far as they could not use their mobility scooters

teddysmum

A single rat could be from anywhere and does not mean an infestation. Poison is dangerous and the council won't want to put it down for a one off incident (and neither should you if you have children or pets).


Years ago, I found a nest of tiny baby rats (probably as a little large for mice), in a clump of long grass on the edge of our garden. I went to the toilet, while wondering what to do and on return found that 'mum' had taken them all away.


I have never in tens of years seen another since, though the man next door said he saw one jump over his back wall. On looking, he saw that the house owner behind had a compost heap,with vegetable waste, between the wall and his garage, so had a word.


The neighbour cleared the rubbish and no one has had a problem since, so your first action should be checking for a food source.

teddysmum

angryparcel wrote: »

Councils are useless. i once reported someone had allowed their horse to mess outside my elderly parents front gate (dad 90 and mother 82) and all i got was can they not get a shovel and remove it themselves as we wont send anyone out.
I had just come out of hospital at the time, so i could not remove it, so my parents could not use that gate to get out for feat of slipping, so they could not go far as they could not use their mobility scooters

It wasn't dangerous and someone would soon run along with a shovel, glad of some food for their garden.

PasturesNew

Think yourself lucky it was dead and not running around.

Where I live I have to pay £30 for them to come and lay bait ... even though they're not living at my house. The house with all the food keeps chickens and when the beasties arrive it affects 20+ houses. So each time he's careless, 20+ houses pay the Council £30 apiece to lay bait .... and the person causing the nuisance sits pretty in his big detached house looking out of his window at how pretty he thinks his chickens look as he ponders whether it's time to feed them again!

Grrr.

peter_the_piper

I regularly have to put down poison for rats, no great problem.Come's with the territory when you feed birds etc. Council would only be interested if there is an infestation or you are next to a cafe etc.

angryparcel

teddysmum wrote: »

It wasn't dangerous and someone would soon run along with a shovel, glad of some food for their garden.

but when it is front of the home of elderly residents that can slip then it is a danger and safety risk

Mojisola

angryparcel wrote: »

Councils are useless. i once reported someone had allowed their horse to mess outside my elderly parents front gate (dad 90 and mother 82) and all i got was can they not get a shovel and remove it themselves as we wont send anyone out.

I had just come out of hospital at the time, so i could not remove it, so my parents could not use that gate to get out for feat of slipping, so they could not go far as they could not use their mobility scooters

Don't they have any neighbours who would do a simple job like that?

marliepanda

You really think you pay council tax so they can come pick up dead rodents and horse manure at a moments notice?

How many staff do you think your £100 or so a month pays for? Enough to have your own personal cleaner? Never mind the rest of the services they offer for that £100.

What an entitled joke thread this is. Here my council won't come out to treat rodents for less than £70.

pest control is not a statutory service. They don't have to offer it at all.

System

A few years ago, I was walking past a factory which has stood empty for 20 plus years. A bit of masonry fell from the building, almost hitting me. I rang the council as probably know who owns the factory. They couldn't care less.

Yet two weeks ago, a much smaller building, about a 1/20 of building above was demolished as a member of the public reported a part of the building crumbled away was demolished within 48 hours. It was empty about the same amount of time as the factory.

Owain_Moneysaver

Mchambers wrote: »

Blooming council did not want to know when I reported a dead rat in my back garden ! They just said stick the thing in my dustbin (Great idea as it will stink by the time my dustbin is next emptied) !

Tie it up in a plastic bag or a food box and put it in the freezer until bin day.

That's what pest control do with dead things until they have a load to go to the incinerator.

The occasional dead rat is also good for compost heaps or septic tanks.