spotted a rat in the back garden! obviously i want to kill it and it’s chums to death – humanely or otherwise – but certainly not in a way that harms next door’s (rather useless) cat. So STW experts – what’s the strategy??

I don’t suppose just leaving it alone is an option?

I’ve got a couple of rats in the back garden. Quite cute really if you watch em for a while. Mind you I haven’t seen them for some time so I suspect something else has eaten them.

Fairly pointless exercise imo – you will then have to deal with the rats which replace them.

A much better solution would be to remove their food source – eg. secure bins, keep any food for wild birds out of reach, etc etc

air rifle is the most fun, a big plastic box full of semi rotten meat and vaseleen smeared arround the inside is most effective.