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| Thread ID: 82895 | 2007-09-12 09:07:00 | What do rats eat? | Mercury (1316) | PC World Chat |
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| 590512 | 2007-09-13 10:13:00 | Rats can run down the power or phone lines then in under the roofing above the guttering. They normally come inside in winter to where it is warmer. I think it was the old style baits that had Phosphorus in that either burnt their guts out or made them thirsty and when they drank water, their guts burnt out. Not a nice smell to have leaking into the house. |
Whenu (9358) | ||
| 590513 | 2007-09-13 10:37:00 | Forgot to add that the newer poisons active ingredient is a blood thinning agent ( Wolfarin?) that is given to people with a heart condition | Whenu (9358) | ||
| 590514 | 2007-09-13 11:58:00 | Living in the country with a couple of cats rats are a part of our existence. Usually dead ones in the middle of the living room floor. Or there was the dead opposum once. Not to mention the live baby rabbit. It's kind of, "Oh great, here we go again" and leaving the purring monsters to it - and trying to convince the dog not to join in or steal the prey. Our female tenant on the other hand is paranoid about bugs, creepy crawlies and rats. Even the flies that ended up in the bathroom from the corpses in the roof had her boiling the face cloth for 30 minutes (they came down the sides of the ceiling fan). Her husband is able to cope, she isn't. Unless we solve the problem they will move. As they are nice people we would prefer to solve the problem. They are off to Iran on Saturday for a month so we have a month to fix it. Hopefully we will find a tunnel through the walls. Not sure if they would like the phone and power cut off to get rid of the overhead lines. |
Mercury (1316) | ||
| 590515 | 2007-09-13 17:25:00 | Warfarin is the vitamin K binder...in that it locks the vitamin in situ and keeps it from allowing the blood to clot and the rats internally bleed to death. K is used by the body to help clotting when blood vessels are damaged. There are rat guards that can be affixed to power and phone lines though...like th discs that are used on ships for the mooring lines to keep rats off or on..there are laws about importing and exporting local rats. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 590516 | 2007-09-13 19:45:00 | Well-llll...you can also sit up nights with a Sharps Buffalo rifle and just pop him. :help: spoken like a true American :lol: |
Morpheus1 (186) | ||
| 590517 | 2007-09-16 10:44:00 | We had a couple of rats living in our ceiling and our neighbours had the same problem. We share a common concrete wall for our garages and worked out that they got up onto their roof via trees/shrubs growing against the house and then into the gutter and up under the edge of the roofing into which ever house they chose. As another reply said, always nail or wire the baits to something otherwise they take it away and store it. That way they have to eat it and in our case after about a week they were gone...think we caught a 'wiff' of something but never found any bodies! PS Trees have been pruned now! |
muzza (7316) | ||
| 590518 | 2007-09-16 11:02:00 | This reminds me in our takeaway we had. The building was from the 1920's and used to be a tearoom. Since it was so old we used to get rats popping out of the drainpipes. I remember one time my mum yelling at the top of her voice after seeing one, trapping it and then my father pouring boiling water over it, stab it, and then dump it's body into a chip bag. |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 590519 | 2007-09-16 12:54:00 | trapping it and then my father pouring boiling water over it, stab it, and then dump it's body into a chip bag. ....ouch..... |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 590520 | 2007-09-16 13:56:00 | Anyone read American Psycho? Great book, ok movie. | mmmork (6822) | ||
| 590521 | 2007-09-16 21:05:00 | Anyone read American Psycho? Great book, ok movie. I have read Gone with wind,if thats any help! |
Cicero (40) | ||
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