Moles!

badger09

boxer234 said:

Murphybear said:

badger09 said:

Murphybear said:

boxer234 said:

LippyDoodle said:

Yeah sounds like moles. Rat holes can be dug anywhere. In the lawn, borders, especially going under a fence. Rats usually run the same route so that tends to leave a track leading to a hole. If they have been using the same runs for a while or if there is lots of them you can usually smell their urine too. They also leave very wet area's in long grass, bushes etc where they use urinate. You can sometimes see the poo pellets too, but no always. 

I’m not sure how much more I can take rats will be one step to far.  This is the first time I’ve lived in the countryside.  The house is old and poorly insulated so far we have had; wood lice, wasps, giant spiders, a fox that poops in the garden, slugs in the living room 😱

One of the worst things is flies.  We lived in a house on a rural Devon farm.  We could put up with any wildlife apart from the hundreds of flies 

Earlier this year we moved from outskirts of small Shropshire market town, with farmed fields opposite. We used to be plagued by cluster flies, especially at this time of year when they would get in through the some of the ill fitting windows, in search of somewhere to hybernate I guess. Absolute worst was coming home from 3 weeks in HK visiting my son for Xmas/New Year, to find the bathroom, hall stairs & landing, & our bedroom covered in a carpet of dead flies, ala Stephen King

Now on the outskirts of a village (still in Shropshire), with farmed fields opposite, we've been plagued by what I think are flea beetles. Which are just as unpleasant as they sound.

Maybe I should move somewhere more urban. 

I quite like watching Escape to the Country as many of the properties are in areas I’m very familiar with.  What they never talk about is the smell, the mooooos and baaaaas, the moles and the flies. 

The flies are terrible.  The spiders are life sized, no one talks about the true country living. 

Oh, I didn't mind the spiders. In fact in previous house we had a resident spider in the downstairs toilet. I called him Simon and used to leave dead cluster flies (see earlier post) near his exit/entrance under skirting board for him. 

boxer234

An update and also a document of my descent into madness.  Landlord decided he wanted to try and catch the mole.  Someone came and set traps.  We caught a mole which was sad but no more holes.  A week later more holes another mole.  This one I think is out for revenge and on steroids by the look of the holes.