Everything but a rat

[todthedog]

Once ate rat in a Belgium pub cooked in the local beer, really nice. Might have been the accompanying beer of course.

Agree with the others exterminate ! exterminate ! exterminate! Used to use a length of drain pipe running along a wall, with the bait in the middle, the bait replaced daily until no longer taken.
Your little chum will not be alone.

Good luck.

[redsturgeon]

This is my Parson Russell...she is a hopeless ratter!

[kiloran]

This is my Parson Russell...she is a hopeless ratter!

Seems small enough to get caught in my rat cage

--kiloran

[redsturgeon]

This is my Parson Russell...she is a hopeless ratter!

Seems small enough to get caught in my rat cage

--kiloran

Yes that's the problem, some of our rats are bigger than she is!

John

[csearle]

As a student in Plymouth we had rats. Reported it to the council. They sent around a man with a flame-thrower. Decimated our back garden. Then he decimated it again. After which we had a blackened rectangle and no rats. That would be my advice to you. C.

[sg31]

Air rifle ratting with a good mate, a comfy seat, a carton of fags, and a Thermos of coffee is my idea of heaven. Big-game hunting in the back yard.

Also, night sights are fricking awesome. But terriers are better.

I've not tried any yet. Last time I looked they were eye wateringly expensive. Can you recommend any?

Yukon Photon on my PCP. Does the job, just needs a bit of time to fiddle and zero if swapped off the rifle.

Thanks for the reply. It looks like a nice bit of kit, I'll have a deeper look at it tomorrow.

[didds]

Several years ago when we had an invasion form the unattended farm next door, my teenage son just sat up half the night with an external light covering the patch of garden they appeared in, and an open window.

Joe LOTS rats NILL.

didds

[Rhyd6]

Gosh Redsturgeon what a beautiful parson russell. Ours is as scruffy as the day is long with something chunky in her ancestry, I wish she looked as neat and tidy as yours.

R6

[redsturgeon]

Gosh Redsturgeon what a beautiful parson russell. Ours is as scruffy as the day is long with something chunky in her ancestry, I wish she looked as neat and tidy as yours.

R6

Aww thanks.

We actually bred her and she was certainly the prettiest of the 16 pups from 3 litters. Sweet but hopeless at anything practical though.

John

[Gengulphus]

Gosh Redsturgeon what a beautiful parson russell. ...

Aww thanks.

We actually bred her and she was certainly the prettiest of the 16 pups from 3 litters. Sweet but hopeless at anything practical though.

Hmm... Maybe we ought to change the thread title to "Anything but a rat"? ;-)

Gengulphus

[Imbiber]

Yukon Photon 6.5 x 50. I find mine excellent, use it on my PCP an .22 rimfire. It works in daylight as well. It does use batteries very quickly and I would strongly recommend the use of rechargeable batteries.

[kiloran]

And back on topic, the latest score is....

4 big fat stupid pigeons
a squirrel
4 sparrows (all at the same time!)
a blackbird
2 magpies (one of which struggled so much it lost all of its tail feathers and is now fluttering around in a most ungainly manner)
and.... (drumroll)....1 small rat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The bad news.... while transferring the rat to a sack from the cage, it escaped

Drat!

--kiloran

[Rhyd6]

Ellie got her firat Northumbrian mole today. She was well pleased with herself and has decided the long journey was worth it. We're here for a month so she might manage a rat, one never knows,

R6

[kiloran]

Gotcha!!!!!
Two wee rats sniffing around under the bird feeders this morning. One finally went into the trap and started nibbling at the sausage and peanut butter. Snap!
Never been up close to a rat before, but they are noisy little so-and-sos. Though mine has now mysteriously lost its squeak.

Now for its wee brother or sister.

--kiloran

[bungeejumper]

Now for its wee brother or sister.

Let me correct that little typo for you: "Now for its wee brothers and sisters, its parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles, and all the little nephews and nieces, and their kids and grandkids as well."

You're better off with snap traps, honestly. Cut out the middle man, which is you

BJ

[kiloran]

Now for its wee brother or sister.

Let me correct that little typo for you: "Now for its wee brothers and sisters, its parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles, and all the little nephews and nieces, and their kids and grandkids as well."

You're better off with snap traps, honestly. Cut out the middle man, which is you

BJ

[DiamondEcho]

I've twice seen a magpie attack a starling on the lawn and then fly off with it. And their stroppy youngsters are continually squawking and demanding food --kiloran

Last week I saw a magpie chase a black cat across the road, using a combo of hopping along and flying behind it. I was left wondering if the initial good luck had been cancelled.

[bungeejumper]

Last week I saw a magpie chase a black cat across the road, using a combo of hopping along and flying behind it. I was left wondering if the initial good luck had been cancelled.

Just as long as you remembered to salute the magpie. Er, you did remember to salute the magpie, didn't you?

https://www.britishbirdlovers.co.uk/art ... perstition

BJ

[kiloran]

Last week I saw a magpie chase a black cat across the road, using a combo of hopping along and flying behind it. I was left wondering if the initial good luck had been cancelled.

Just as long as you remembered to salute the magpie. Er, you did remember to salute the magpie, didn't you?

https://www.britishbirdlovers.co.uk/art ... perstition

BJ

It would be a two-fingered salute for a magpie

--kiloran

[AleisterCrowley]

Ones I see get a 'Morning Mr Magpie, how's the missus?'
Followed by an expletive.