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Have got rats/mice/squirrels in the attic, so thought I'd get the poison out of the shed and put some up there. They've only been storing acorns in the bags of poison. I can see them now, sticking their v's up and saying "taste quite nice these acorns with a bit of wolfren on". Frickin rodents - I feel like they're taking the mick.
Got a couple of the little ones with nutella flavoured traps though! Not laughing now are they!
Still need to catch a big one though.....
Have you got rats, mice AND squirrels in your loft? That's some good going that.
Trouble with poison is they go and die in some inaccessible place. Then the smell starts.
The mice we usually get in the traps but the rat just wouldn't go in the cage. Wife was a bit freaked out so poison it had to be.
I think we have more fresh air thingies than the shop
Acquire a cat of the street for a while and stick it in the attic.
Frickin rodents - I feel like they're taking the mick.
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Acquire a cat of the street for a while and stick it in the attic
that is a good idea if you also like to feed a cat ! 
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Squirrels are major made news in a loft - they're extremely destructive.
Get the professionals in (whether you read that as Rentokill or Bodie and Doyle makes little difference - both will get the job done).
If it is squirrels they do need dealing with as they'll ruin the insulation, eat pipes, eat wiring, essentially ruin your loft.
Squirrels are major made news in a loft - they're extremely destructive.
This. We had this in our old house. All of a sudden there was a breaking in noise then a mass of scurrying feet across the ceiling. My blood literally ran cold.
Your local council will have a good pest controller and they tend to be cheaper. Ours laid traps then cameback every couple of days. If you put poison down then leave it you'll end up with the worse smell ever in your house.
I struggle with long sentences.
Same with a cat. You'll end up with a body stashed at the furthest point away under the eave.
Plus you can't put your cat up there 24/7 IMO. Yes the Squirrels may get the message but then they can also be viscous fighters if cornered. Imagine taking your cat to the vet due to a damaged eye that happened in the pitch dark.
If you put poison down then leave it you'll end up with the worse smell ever in your house.
Not necessarily - the poison makes them thirsty so they go to their normal watering hole and then explode as they drink ( or something like that). Dying and rotting in a cavity is a risk though but by no means inevitable.
I heard a scurry in the loft the other week so I lobbed 7 sachets of Rentokil pasta-bait in through the small hole between lofts (used to be 2 houses but only 1 loft hatch). 1 sachet will drop a mouse, 2 will do for a rat so, 7 will take down a moose.
Not heard anything since.
3 sachets are hidden in the kitchen (with wife doesn't know about them as she's a bloody tree hugger who wanted me to use humane traps). They have not been touched.