Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Secondary poisoning even contaminating eggs?
Grabbing a rat by its tail
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Netherfield
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- West Yorkshire
Lack of take aways for them.
Netherfield
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- West Yorkshire
No poison involved, this was after the dogs had seen to them.
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- S. Staffs
On my pre college farm back in the 60’s they had made a temporary bin for feed barley under the Dutch barn with hay as one side and then stacked straw on top. We emptied it down and I found that the ‘floor’ was old hay bales, and it was moving under my feet !, we got the dogs and everyone with sticks and stuff, and gradually lifted each bale, standing well back as rats jumped out in all directions!,
We killed about 70 but hundreds escaped all over the farm. Rats make my flesh creep after that experience.
I hate the barstewards.
We killed about 70 but hundreds escaped all over the farm. Rats make my flesh creep after that experience.
I hate the barstewards.
Devil's advocate
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How far to the fecking things travel?
I often wonder if the rats I kill are related to the ones my Granddad trapped in 1929 or if they are immigrants.
ollie989898
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yellow belly
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- south west lincolnshire
Fen no 4 traps positioned round the farm yard keeps them from getting a foot hold
Devil's advocate
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No genuine question, how far do they travel.Any fudging chance you have to bring Brexit and migrants into it eh?!
wanton dwarf
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As a kid my job in spring after the grain shed was emptied was to be sent down the dryer ducts that ran the length of the shed.
I was the smallest person and only one who could fit.
I would be armed with a torch, brush and bucket plus a cricket bat.
Could always guarantee a bunch of rats piled up at the end of the tunnel. Only way for them to get out was past/over me.
Bloody hate rats!!
I was the smallest person and only one who could fit.
I would be armed with a torch, brush and bucket plus a cricket bat.
Could always guarantee a bunch of rats piled up at the end of the tunnel. Only way for them to get out was past/over me.
Bloody hate rats!!
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- Near Beeston Castle
I walked into a shed at night on that rat instead pig fam and turned the lights on.
Swear on my grandkids lives there were two thousand rats in there and half of them ran towards me.
Tucked my trousers into my socks before I went in the next shed!
I used to be scared of rats but there were so many there that they don’t bother me any more, what I mean is I hate rats but don’t run away from them.
Swear on my grandkids lives there were two thousand rats in there and half of them ran towards me.
Tucked my trousers into my socks before I went in the next shed!
I used to be scared of rats but there were so many there that they don’t bother me any more, what I mean is I hate rats but don’t run away from them.
Well, not seen many Scots wandering around TBH!!
Oh believe you me.... there is no shortage of eateries. However, I do not frequent any of them....
I prefer a shovel myself although I have learnt to be more careful when my 4 Yr old is around. Being quizzed by his teachers at pick up time as to why he has been telling horror stories to his classmates about mummy killing rats in the silage clamp with a shovel was not one of my best moments
Feckers avoid 'em....
Good on ya!!I prefer a shovel myself although I have learnt to be more careful when my 4 Yr old is around. Being quizzed by his teachers at pick up time as to why he has been telling horror stories to his classmates about mummy killing rats in the silage clamp with a shovel was not one of my best moments
Mine would have been there with their beach spades, ready to help!!
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- CW5 Cheshire
My eldest son has just moved out of a rat infested block of flats in London, quite a new build too. The rats are all over the balconies and in the walls too. All the flats have an island in the kitchen, the cutlery drawer is in this and for some reason the rats can get into all the cutlery drawers! He bought a big bag of flour during lock down and put it in the shoe cupboard, they chewed through the plaster board and ate it! One woke him up chewing on his bed leg one night. The management company refused to do anything about them.
The management company refused to do anything about them.I should add he studded the dead rats with great enthusiasm and then came up to me and said mummy i think those rats need a toothbrush, their teeth are all yellow'Good on ya!!
Mine would have been there with their beach spades, ready to help!!
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- Top of the Chilterns
There is honestly no feeling in farming better than really belting one with a hockey stick.
Personal highlight was a fully grown one I clobbered as it ran past me once. It flew in a graceful arc across the grain store (ahem), through the grain cleaner without touching anything, and thudded into the far wall, about 15 yards off.
Some years later it still makes me smile!
Personal highlight was a fully grown one I clobbered as it ran past me once. It flew in a graceful arc across the grain store (ahem), through the grain cleaner without touching anything, and thudded into the far wall, about 15 yards off.
Some years later it still makes me smile!
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- West Somerset
get another, you'll not regret another terrier about, 1 JR, 15 now showing his age abit, new one now 2, red hot on rats, and pheasants