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Old 30-04-2023, 10:39 PM #1
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Default Fat Rats are in your gardens

SkyNewsHD :
[Chubby critters are running amok,
the Daily Star says, as millions of obese rats - made fat
on scraps of our fast food leftovers - target homes.]





I had Some
Eating Bird Seed.

Bought Rat Poison in a box
they have now gone.


Refill the Poison.

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I thought a rat was getting into our bins but I caught the culprit last week - just the fatarsed cat from across the street. I believe his name is Walter.

TBF around here it's more commonly foxes than rats, if something is getting into things.
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I thought a rat was getting into our bins but I caught the culprit last week - just the fatarsed cat from across the street. I believe his name is Walter.

TBF around here it's more commonly foxes than rats, if something is getting into things.

Fair play to Walter
he is on our side
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I thought a rat was getting into our bins but I caught the culprit last week - just the fatarsed cat from across the street. I believe his name is Walter.

TBF around here it's more commonly foxes than rats, if something is getting into things.
Same here.

We have a relatively big Fox population where I live.

Fox Hunters can stay away though, they're definitely not welcome where I live.
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There's a cat near me who sh1t in my garden. I caught the little tw@ in my garden a couple of days ago and chased it out. I bought a bulb of garlic and put the chopped up cloves over my garden. If the little bleeder comes back it will get a nostril full of garlic.
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Same here.

We have a relatively big Fox population where I live.

Fox Hunters can stay away though, they're definitely not welcome where I live.
You see a Fox more
but the rats come out at night

For Example,
Climbing a Bird Box
eating all the seed

Once I got the Rat Poison box outside
Bricks around it to keep it in its place.
The Fat Rat climbs inside to eat the Delight.
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There's a cat near me who sh1t in my garden. I caught the little tw@ in my garden a couple of days ago and chased it out. I bought a bulb of garlic and put the chopped up cloves over my garden. If the little bleeder comes back it will get a nostril full of garlic.

I put snake droppings in our garden and we don’t get cats now .

I got the idea from zoo keepers who put tiger/lion/ cheetah poop in their gardens as a deterrent


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I put snake droppings in our garden and we don’t get cats now .

I got the idea from zoo keepers who put tiger/lion/ cheetah poop in their gardens as a deterrent


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i'm sure if you **** in your garden that would keep them away too
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You see a Fox more
but the rats come out at night

For Example,
Climbing a Bird Box
eating all the seed

Once I got the Rat Poison box outside
Bricks around it to keep it in its place.
The Fat Rat climbs inside to eat the Delight.
Fascinating.
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i dont have any fast food places within 2 miles so no. I have my rabbits, a squirrel and all the birds, oh and a cat that visits
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i think people confuse rats with mice more often than not
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Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes
Coverting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue
Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers
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I can't put poison outside. My neighbours cats would eat it. And I love cats.
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i think people confuse rats with mice more often than not
Bruh mice are inside, rats are outside.

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I can't put poison outside. My neighbours cats would eat it. And I love cats.

It's a Rat Box
Cats can not get in it
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Raw Poison
is never put outside

It is in that Box on a Poll
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Ah, ok. I might consider buying one of those.
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Ah, ok. I might consider buying one of those.

Make Sure your first box
has the Poison inside

Then you buy it
in a bag of Blocks of it

Use plastic gloves
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Example

B&Q sell them, as well

https://www.screwfix.com/p/pest-stop...-station/794hh

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Put Bricks next to it
to keep it in place


Once I started using this outside box
they have gone.
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We have Foxes hence never seen a rat
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