Do You Feed Birds?

[Carol Shaw]

or simply try with cats...

No sane cat will attack a rat, they are too big for them - we had a serious problem when we were living on a small holding in Aberdeenshire and even the farm cats would not attempt to catch them. Being the idiots we were we caught and killed them ourselves - a really revolting operation which can still leave me feeling sick to my stomach to this day. Something like a Jack Russell terrier on the other hand will go for and kill any number of rats.

[mark smyth]

Two hands of poison has been eaten suggesting more than one

[Maggi Young]

It is often said that Jack Russell terriers are the best ratters but  that the most efficient ratters I have ever known were miniature Dachshunds........small, fast and utterly fearless, they could kill a huge number of rats in a very short time indeed . If I were ever keeping horses again and had hay barns to keep clear, I would have a couple of Daxies in a heartbeat. Lily's chum Molly ( another Westie) is a great mouser, but I haven't seen her with rats so I don't know how she'd get on....pretty well I reckon. Lily isn't such a determined hunter as Molly...but then she's ten years old now and a bit of a spoiled, kept woman  in  her treatment by the BD 

[Carol Shaw]

Mark we even tried cyanide on our rats - damned things seemed to thrive on it!

[David Shaw]

I am just sitting hear reading this thread and am aware of a sharp shrrip, shrrip, shrrip noise from outside. As I look up from the laptop I can see a redwing perched on an Acer not five feet from the window.

[Anthony Darby]

Many moons ago my former neighbour's cat had a go at a stoat. The cat caught the stoat by the head at the same time as the stoat latched on to the cat's tongue! The vet had to separate the cat from the dead stoat. The poor cat's tongue swelled up and it couldn't eat for a week.

[ranunculus]

I am just sitting hear reading this thread and am aware of a sharp shrrip, shrrip, shrrip noise from outside. As I look up from the laptop I can see a redwing perched on an Acer not five feet from the window.

Would that be an Acer laptop, David?   

[David Shaw]

Would that be an Acer laptop, David?

Boom, Boom
Spot on Cliif, Acer Aspire 3630

[Lvandelft]

Mark we even tried cyanide on our rats - damned things seemed to thrive on it!

Carol, did you ever read "Lair" by James Herbert?

[Maggi Young]

"The mutant white rats had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. But the white slug-like thing that ruled them knew. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human flesh. "


Luit, you don't read this stuff, do you???!!!! 

[ranunculus]

It's not Rupert the Bear, is it!!!!!   

[Anthony Darby]

It's not Rupert the Bear, is it!!!!!  

I don't know?

"Algie met a bear;
the bear met Algie;
the bear got bulgie;
the bulge was Algie!"

[Carol Shaw]

Mark we even tried cyanide on our rats - damned things seemed to thrive on it!

Carol, did you ever read "Lair" by James Herbert?

Nope and think I will give a miss

[Lvandelft]

"The mutant white rats had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. But the white slug-like thing that ruled them knew. Its two heads weaved to and fro and a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human flesh. "
Luit, you don't read this stuff, do you???!!!! 

Maggi, is it strange that you made this quote and did not read this before?
Really didn't expect YOU were reading such stuff.

To be honest, I never would buy such book or get it from the library but a friend
gave me the book and said I should read it and he expected I would not sleep well after reading it.
Well, polight as I am, I read it and I slept very good. He for sure will ask me how I find it.
I saw the first printing was from 1979 and obviously lots of people seem to like such stuff.

[Lesley Cox]

"Algie met a bear;
the bear met Algie;
the bear was bulgie;
the bulge was Algie!"

Must be 50 years since I last heard that little ditty.