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Don't mess around You need that/those removed asap and access points blocked.
They multiply quickly and it become an infestation.
There is nothing cute about rats in houses.
Close all the gaps you can find: broken airbricks are a favourite....
Put down lot's of rat traps with some nice, smelly, bait....
Await the apocalypse! cackle with laughter while rubbing your hands together :o)
Peanut butter caught mine. Screw you traps to big planks in the loft. They are hardy buggers and will take your trap for a walk.....we catch one a year usually. Our latest had dug out the mortar between our step and the house and came in through the foundations where they are linteled over an existing drain.
The last one ate through an aluminium hidden valley gutter end.....
The one before that ate through our asbestos soffit.
They were all cremated on site.
We had a ratty visitor a couple of years ago. Gnawed various cables, including the house alarm which went crazy as a result. Showed no interest in the dozens of traps i put down with various different baits on them. Eventually ate some poison (could tell by the poison coloured poo) and died in a wall cavity somewhere that I couldn’t find. It was a bit smelly for a month or two. They are a complete pain so do take action. I found the entry point - they had tunnelled a long way under a concrete plinth.
You need a decent exterminator.
For months I was complaining of scratching and 'patting' noises every night when I went to bed. Everyone said I was imagining things. Nearly drove me demented. Eventually I got a pest control person out. Deffo a rat in the loft. Was travelling between 3 houses. Ended up with poison in 3 lofts. Clearly the rat liked the poison as it had been eaten. Rat ended up in the 3rd neighbour's dog's jaws one morning most definitely dead. I have been, thankfully, tormented-free since. Now, if I could just stop the bloody starlings doing the conga on the roof I'd be laughing
Lived in a rental stone built cottage with a shared roof space and during the cold season became shelter for the mice - you’d hear them scurrying across the ceiling and occasionally one would fall down the plasterboard wall and you could hear it clambering it’s way back up. We put some humane traps in the loft and the final count was 66 mice and 1 field vole. We also had rats that were burying their way under the floor slab. The landlord refused to do anything to close off the eaves as it wasn’t “structural”.
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Peanut butter caught mine. Screw you traps to big planks in the loft
Username pretty much checks out
Poison. Rats love poison.
Either get the professionals in or https://www.pest-expert.com/rat-poison-28-c.asp
Be persistent.
Is this resolved yet?
Whatever you chose to do, make sure it's not buying retail grade rodenticide. It's usually not strong enough to finish the colony off and can introduce resistance to that product.
Look up CRRU and think similar to antibiotic resistance in people.
4 months later and I have my first kill. 3 at once in 3 snap traps. 2 bodies a bit nibbled. So, yeah, I guess I’m probably overrun. Council has stopped its pest control service. Private killers want £500!
Anyway, for anyone that’s interested, it seems the best bait for rats is… rat 🤢
Anyway, for anyone that’s interested, it seems the best bait for rats is… rat 🤢
Tastes like chicken
Smooth or crunchy?
Smooth or crunchy?
If your chicken comes in smooth and crunchy options I dare say you need another butcher.
@stwhannah You need a dog! I realise after you met my two you’re not perhaps happy around dogs but at the very least a couple of terriers will indicate where your problem is and at the best there will be a swift solution.
@wheelsonfire1 oh heck. I’ve met you irl?! If you had dogs with you I was probably uptight! I keep being bitten/had a go at by them. Best I usually manage with friends’ dogs is ‘hello dog’, in about the way that people who don’t like children deal with sticky toddlers. Sorry about that.
But not opposed to temporary terriers in the loft.
Terrier borrowing is the way forward. Chuck it in the loft hatch, go and have a cup of tea, job jobbed.
I have this problem. Don’t think it’s rats, I’m guessing mice or even small birds. They’re in the wall above my bedroom window. They start scratching around mid morning. I’m too early for them mid-week but they drive me insane at the weekend when I’m having a lie-in. I can’t think of a way to get at them without cutting into the wall. And if I do that, then whatever is in there now has access to my bedroom…
Megasack winner! Fame is so short lived.. terriers in the loft would work but I’d be worried that the insulation would cause irritation!
Anyway, for anyone that’s interested, it seems the best bait for rats is… rat 🤢
They chew their own limbs to get out if your snap trap was ineffective initially
Not mice imo – there is a reason for the saying “quiet as a mouse”. Squirrels can be very noisy.
My mice were noisy as hell. Pitter patter pitter pa... Crack.
I got a few this spring, first time for a few years.