[Garden Carpet]

Betty, I wish this was so. I live next to a huge field and this year for the first time I have had rats in my house... in my kitchen.. and one hung itself while trying to escape my dog. They shredded a rubbish bag hanging on my back door.. having jumped from the worktop to the suspended bag.

There urine is bad for dogs as it carries the killer disease leptospriosis.

They dont go back to their nests to die. I had one die in my loft and it stank the place out for weeks.. and now I have a plague of flies.

I had a house maintenance chap come in to look into blocking the holes everywhere.. seemingly too many to be done.. what he found was a nest over my bedroom (open from the insulation to the garage roof. Bedroom built into garage) I had complaind of them rolling boulders around in the middle of the night.. it wasnt boulders but potatoes they had carried in from the field!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like rats as animals in the right place.. but I can not tolerate them in my house with the risk to me and my dogs. I hate the thought of the effects of the poison.. but if they ignore the humane traps what can you do
jaki