Wildlife in your Garden


DualityNSNO said:
Quite specific, how so?
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One was found in a bin with his sibling and other found on street the with a broken leg her tail cut off and a gash on her head,she was in terrible state but me and missus rescued both of them and brought them over to the UK....very territorial and still actually a bit wild but incredibly loving.

Like I said god help any rat that strays into our garden.
 
Exeter_Gently said:
One was found in a bin with his sibling and other found on street the with a broken leg her tail cut off and a gash on her head,she was in terrible state but me and missus rescued both of them and brought them over to the UK....very territorial and still actually a bit wild but incredibly loving.

Like I said god help any rat that strays into our garden.
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I had a rat in my bedroom last year, never caught the thing, The Pest Controller reckoned it went back out the way it came in
 

larbert toffee said:
Had rats in my compost bin about 4 years ago, got rid of the bin put baited boxes down which seemed to sort the problem out, however the missus has seen one the last couple of days via our slatted fence which backs onto a railway cutting which doesn't help matters.
Any suggestions for getting rid of them or should I just return to the poisoning method?
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We suffer from rats periodically and I`ve tried everything over the years to get rid of them, humane traps, regular traps, organic deterrents etc and the only thing to get rid of them effectively is poison, which I hate using, as apart from being horrific, it poisons the food chain, as when things like Magpies, Crows etc find the dead ones and eat them, they end up poisoned too, which are then eaten by cats / foxes, who die slowly due to the small amounts of poison they`ve ingested.
 
COYBL25 said:
We suffer from rats periodically and I`ve tried everything over the years to get rid of them, humane traps, regular traps, organic deterrents etc and the only thing to get rid of them effectively is poison, which I hate using, as apart from being horrific, it poisons the food chain, as when things like Magpies, Crows etc find the dead ones and eat them, they end up poisoned too, which are then eaten by cats / foxes, who die slowly due to the small amounts of poison they`ve ingested.
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What about this geez?

Says indoor wonder if it might work outside
 

COYBL25 said:
Tough one that, as apart from humans, they`re one of the only animals that seems to kill indiscriminately.

If a fox gets into a hen house, it`ll kill and eat one, maybe two, but it`ll rip the rest to pieces for no reason.
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This is because in the wild they can only eat so much so they kill their pray and usually burying the kill it for cubs further down the line

But also get how people think they're a pest.
 
Exeter_Gently said:
This is because in the wild they can only eat so much so they kill their pray and usually burying the kill it for cubs further down the line

But also get how people think they're a pest.
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They do bury stuff, but If you look it up, you`ll see that they also seem to kill for pleasure too.

I`ve got a couple of mates who both live in semi rural areas, who both keep chickens and over the years foxes at both their properties, have got to their chickens and they`ve just slaughtered the lot, left them where they killed them and taken one or two.
 

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