Rats

[mariesnowgoose]

Cats Are hardy, They can survive for ages on Spiders bugs & all sorts of stuff if needs be.


BTW I was out your way a Cpl of Month back
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Met a lovely woman looking for her cat !

Hmm. Had it accidentally found its way into your roadkill locker, Paul? (after escaping the cellar of course!) :scared: :lol-049:

 

[Nesting Zombie]

Um,,,,errr,,,,,
I know NOTHING,
What happens aboard The Nest, STAYS aboard The Nest !

 

[mariesnowgoose]

Um,,,,errr,,,,,
I know NOTHING,
What happens aboard The Nest, STAYS aboard The Nest !

:lol-049::lol-049::lol-049:

 

[vindiboy]

Just get a rat trap from a hardware shop, bait it with peanut butter, set it [ mind your fingers they have very strong springs ] and leave it where you think the rats are running, I love rats, got a few in our garden, lot less now as I bought a 22 Air Rifle and have shot some, good sport, I have piles of logs stored and several bird feeders in the trees and a large deck area where they like to hide [ or try to ] so I guess I am attracting them, none in my van though yet ?:ninja:

 

[Jeff G]

And rats love biting electric cables !

They can live on the sheathing.Incredible survivalists

 

[trevskoda]

They can live on the sheathing.Incredible survivalists

Good way then for wast plastic to be recycled,think we are onto something here.

 

[Jeff G]

I know some cables,tv/sat downlead cable when used in commercial or blocks of flats,there was a version that had a chemical in that the rats didn't like and stopped them gnawing through.Iirc ,it worked too

 

[Channa]

commercial folk use warfarin to kill them, thins the blood heart beats fasater until such time as a heart attack

My own method involves my python rats are her staple diet but they don't eat too regularly



Channa

 

[yorkslass]

Hmm. Had it accidentally found its way into your roadkill locker, Paul? (after escaping the cellar of course!) :scared: :lol-049:

Just what went through my mind......:raofl:

 

[ricc]

our cat eats the damn things, just leaves the tails in the door mat.

 

[Nesting Zombie]

Just what went through my mind......:raofl:

Well let’s be honest, What is the point of having a ‘Parts Locker’ if you’re not going to put it to good use !

 

[yorkieowl]

commercial folk use warfarin to kill them, thins the blood heart beats fasater until such time as a heart attack

My own method involves my python rats are her staple diet but they don't eat too regularly

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Channa

Andy, I think I actually prefer the rats tbh.

 

[trevskoda]

our cat eats the damn things, just leaves the tails in the door mat.

My cats scared stiff of them and only eats expensive foods.:tongue:

 

[martinmartin]

My cats scared stiff of them and only eats expensive foods.:tongue:

Have you tried feeding rattatue

 

[Pauljenny]

You can get a mains power plug in gadget, from Amazon. Ultrasonic.. They work for us.
The cheapest ones don't last long if you're using an inverter..unless it's a pure sine wave one.
Good luck.

 

[witzend]

U Tube usually has the answer YouTube

 

[jeanette]

Use the sticky kind of traps as been said with peanut butter and if you’ve got a dog be careful of the urine

 

[martinmartin]

If l had a stubborn rat on board I'd be tempted to fumigate the motorhome in enclosed envirement such as a garage running a petrol engine to gas anything and everything.

 

[Deleted member 69467]

Glue boards

Glue boards

or rat traps,

with rat bait you have some risk of the thing dying and smelling inside the van, but if that's what you have to do go for it.



Please don’t use Glue boards, that’s nothing short of an horrific, barbaric way to kill the rat, they get stuck to the glue then chew their own feet and legs off trying to free themselves, get stuck again and chew off some more.

You can get humane traps that catch them alive, then release the rat alive and drive off afore he tries to get back in lol.

I’ve worked in recycling and I got them glue boards banned from being used.

 

[maingate]

Being a Whippet owner, we don't have Rat problems. Not for long anyhow.