Wildlife in your Garden


….saw a rat in my garden this morning, first for a long time. Just hope it’s visiting and not resident behind my shed. I really don’t like them.

Coincidentally, we’ve got our daughters French Bulldog from today for a week whilst she’s on holiday. I think he might be interested.
 
Eggs said:
….saw a rat in my garden this morning, first for a long time. Just hope it’s visiting and not resident behind my shed. I really don’t like them.

Coincidentally, we’ve got our daughters French Bulldog from today for a week whilst she’s on holiday. I think he might be interested.
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Did it have a red and white strip on ? , lots visting a convention in L'pewl next weekend .
 
Eggs said:
….saw a rat in my garden this morning, first for a long time. Just hope it’s visiting and not resident behind my shed. I really don’t like them.

Coincidentally, we’ve got our daughters French Bulldog from today for a week whilst she’s on holiday. I think he might be interested.
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Hopefully, let him have a good sniff in the garden to find him out.
I had a 4 legged visitor to my bedroom a couple of nights this week, I could hear scratching and running round skirting board. It had eaten a hole in one of my fabric storage boxes, I've no idea how he is getting in, it's about 6 weeks for pest control to come out, I've ordered some filler to put around pipes and some stuff to stick on bottom of doors to make them longer
 
Littlesue said:
Hopefully, let him have a good sniff in the garden to find him out.
I had a 4 legged visitor to my bedroom a couple of nights this week, I could hear scratching and running round skirting board. It had eaten a hole in one of my fabric storage boxes, I've no idea how he is getting in, it's about 6 weeks for pest control to come out, I've ordered some filler to put around pipes and some stuff to stick on bottom of doors to make them longer
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….yep, I saw your earlier post about that but thought you’d been told ‘it’d left the same way it got in’. Dreadful if they’re in your flat, have you seen one (just wondering if it could be mice)?
 

Littlesue said:
Hopefully, let him have a good sniff in the garden to find him out.
I had a 4 legged visitor to my bedroom a couple of nights this week, I could hear scratching and running round skirting board. It had eaten a hole in one of my fabric storage boxes, I've no idea how he is getting in, it's about 6 weeks for pest control to come out, I've ordered some filler to put around pipes and some stuff to stick on bottom of doors to make them longer
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Block holes with wire wool. They don't like it one bit. A rat can squeeze itself through a gap about the size of a twenty pence piece. This means they use pipework and the shoddy workmanship plumbers throw systems in with to their advantage, up and down the walls, in the recess, and appearing under the bath or the sink, or the airing cupboard.
Get a tall bin for your kitchen, one they can't jump up into (rats are accomplished jumpers) and always put all your kitchen waste away asap. Might be worth checking your cupboard spaces, if they can get under the facias they might have an entrance to somewhere you store cereal or dried goods like pasta or pulses.

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This stuff works, but you can only use it inside your house, you are not allowed by law to expose wildlife outside your home to it, it is and will be prosecutable to do so.

I hate rats. The ones I caught don't like me.
 
Rita_Poon said:
Block holes with wire wool. They don't like it one bit. A rat can squeeze itself through a gap about the size of a twenty pence piece. This means they use pipework and the shoddy workmanship plumbers throw systems in with to their advantage, up and down the walls, in the recess, and appearing under the bath or the sink, or the airing cupboard.
Get a tall bin for your kitchen, one they can't jump up into (rats are accomplished jumpers) and always put all your kitchen waste away asap. Might be worth checking your cupboard spaces, if they can get under the facias they might have an entrance to somewhere you store cereal or dried goods like pasta or pulses.

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www.amazon.co.uk

This stuff works, but you can only use it inside your house, you are not allowed by law to expose wildlife outside your home to it, it is and will be prosecutable to do so.

I hate rats. The ones I caught don't like me.
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Cheers, I'm gonna get some wire wool tomorrow and use it along with the filler I have ordered, you're right about the pipes, I had new boiler and central heating couple of years back and instead of taking the old pipes away they just lay the new ones on top of the old so even more holes in the wall. It don't help I live on the side of a canal and Nature Reserve so I suppose I should expect it but you hope they stick to the outside!
 
Littlesue said:
Hopefully, let him have a good sniff in the garden to find him out.
I had a 4 legged visitor to my bedroom a couple of nights this week, I could hear scratching and running round skirting board. It had eaten a hole in one of my fabric storage boxes, I've no idea how he is getting in, it's about 6 weeks for pest control to come out, I've ordered some filler to put around pipes and some stuff to stick on bottom of doors to make them longer
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I like rodents, but can understand why some people are uncomfortable with them and I wouldn't particularly want them in the house.
You do need to block any obvious gaps where they might be getting in (even tiny gaps)
While you're waiting for the pest control, try sprinkling Cayenne pepper around the skirtings (they hate the spiciness) They're also deterred by strong smells such as Peppermint oil. ;)
 
I put the explosion in rodent population down to the infrequency of cat ownership, and that precious tiddles is suddenly a house cat only.

These things evolved to keep vermin down, thousands of years of animal instinct, so much promise lost to fashion.
 


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