Another pointless thread

Somewhere, a Zebra is dancing.

Racing in the rain......

forget the brolly, it's a tad breezy.

The rain has stopped. The wind has stopped. I've checked the trail cameras in the garden. And we definitely have a rat running around near the house .

We had some under our decking at our last property, I purchased some blocks of poison from Screwfix put them down the holes and never saw another rat

They'd come from a neighbour ( passageway under the fence ) whom were liberal with their bird seed and bread on the lawn.

I hope it does not get into your house. We get the occasional rat outside, from the notoriously unhygenic oriental "Fish & Chips" takeaway a few doors away. One got into our old timber-framed village house earlier this year, when someone left the kitchen door open. It chewed its way through the lath-and-plaster internal walls and lived in the hollow between two old walls for months. It chewed holes in the wall, in the ceiling, and was a perpetual nuisance. Poisoned bait failed to kill it. I eventually caught it with an old fashioned spring trap. A big, wily old rat.

There are rats all around here. They used to keep out of the way, but became a nuisance when there was a local craze for keeping chickens. One got into my shed but poison sorted that out - I found a couple of bodies under the shed when it was demolished. No chickens around here now so I was hoping the rats would be keeping themselves to themselves. Apparently not. Poison has been laid (in a proper bait station, of course). It remains to be seen whether it will work. The bloke across the road reckons that you can never get the better of rats - and he used to work for Rentokil .

Steve

Used to have plenty of rats around the gardens due to people throwing uneaten food into their gardens for the birds. Called in Webley and Theoben who quickly rectified the situation as they continue to do on the local farms.