Hi Everyone

Morph · #21 (**permalink**) 23-09-2008, 06:42 PM

Hi and a warm welcome

homely59 · #22 (**permalink**) 23-09-2008, 08:43 PM

The council are going to talk to the neighbours, i will have to pay £50 and i am not happy about that but have to do something about it. I don't feed birds as i learnt years ago that rats will be there like a shot, if the food stays on the ground. It is a shame isn't it that if you interfere with nature even if in a positive way, it can have a negative knock on affect. I still wonder though, how people survive say if they work in stables or on farms if rats are so terrible, then they must come in contact with them, all the time, that more people don't become seriously ill. The thought of a rat in the house though makes my flesh crawl. Mind you so would a big spider, so it isn't just rats. lol

Blackbrook Eye · #23 (**permalink**) 23-09-2008, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by homely59

The council are going to talk to the neighbours, i will have to pay £50 and i am not happy about that but have to do something about it. I don't feed birds as i learnt years ago that rats will be there like a shot, if the food stays on the ground. It is a shame isn't it that if you interfere with nature even if in a positive way, it can have a negative knock on affect. I still wonder though, how people survive say if they work in stables or on farms if rats are so terrible, then they must come in contact with them, all the time, that more people don't become seriously ill. The thought of a rat in the house though makes my flesh crawl. Mind you so would a big spider, so it isn't just rats. lol

It seems a bit rough that you have to pay £50.00 to the council, I would get them to verify that the rats originate from your property before paying, if I were in your situation.

Keith

homely59 · #24 (**permalink**) 24-09-2008, 08:36 AM

Excellent idea i will get them to verify that.

Kayleigh · #25 (**permalink**) 24-09-2008, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by homely59

Excellent idea i will get them to verify that.

Exactly..I had the pest control out when it was free..They said the rats were living in a neighbours property and they were just coming into our garden..

I don't agree with poison so I got a rat trap it killed him clean and quick and I have not seen another since.

homely59 · #26 (**permalink**) 25-09-2008, 12:15 PM

Update, the man came from the pest control. They aren't in my garden living just outside my hedge in the field somewhere. He saw one straight away and i have to get rid of my compost heap and some wood around the back of my shed. He noticed one side of me was feeding birds and visited the other neighbour with the ferrets, of course he doesn't relate to me what he found. So my husband is doing the compost heap in a minute, he has a couple of days off,: does continental shifts. I don't envy him, because they said you can find big spiders in compost heaps, yuk and loads of rats could run out. I have baked him a cake as a reward for such a horrible job lol. Will let you know if anything is in there.