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Everything posted by ratattack
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A good torch would probably have been a help if that close. It's inevitable that you will lose the odd one, the main thing is it's dead and not still running around wounded.
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My only thought on poisoning is the fear that if a poisoned rat made his way down the street and was eaten or chewed by a dog would it kill the dog as well. I'm not up on poison and not sure if that's a real thingYou watch too many films or read too much rubbish in newspapers lol The amount of residual poison in a dead rat is tiny as concentrated in the liver generally, using difenacoum for example the LD50 (lethal dose to kill 50% of a given animal population) for dogs is 200g of poison per kg of body weight. The same for bromadialone. These are the safest with bromadialone being the best f
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Bird feed in a neighbours garden, chickens, rabbits or guinea pigs nearby or it could be a more serious issue like a broken drain if they've been there forever. Get the buggers poisoned as you won't clear it very quickly with traps.
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Any treatments out there for sorting these out, vet has cut them out before but they keep coming back and are uncomfortable for the dog. Loathe paying for more non fixes at the vet!
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No need to de scent any traps, get them straight in the ground whether brand new out of the box or not! Utter nonsense all that burying in soil etc!
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It's the Spanish built ones that have the real problems
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People new to the industry are better working for an established business and learn from there, the big boys are easy to get a job with and will show you the majority of the pests you will encounter. Hard graft but far easier to make the mistakes on their time than muddling through yourself.
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It's a fairly intensive course if you do it in one hit. I did it 10 yrs ago, done in 8 days and passed no bother. The only things that are tricky are the legislation which gets everyone and insects because there's so much to grasp! If you are working for a company then you'll have a bit of experience before you do the course so will be easier. The next course up is much harder!
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My terrier are a gut full of rat poison, little sod nosed the lid off a tub and gobbled it down, took him to the vet and had a vitamin K jab and 2wks of tablets and he was home with me within the hr! Total about £100! Luckily I told the vet what happened what poison (single feed stuff) and roughly how much had been eaten. I doubt there was enough dope in that bait station to do either dog any real harm and a shot of vitamin K and a course of tablets would be all that's required! E.G.: difenacoum and bromadialone has an ld50 of 200g per kg of body weight to be lethal! 7kg terrier would nee
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You should also have insurance sorted out! It's a bit different going into a loft or up a ladder with a few thousand pissed off wasps, not easy to keep your cool and do the job right and not end up putting a foot through the roof or stay on the ladder if it goes tits up! Plus you may end up treating a nest and someone gets stung that's allergic to wasps (possible compo) or you yourself may be allergic to them! Do a course at the very least, they ain't a critter to play with that's for sure. Easy to do wasps if you do it properly and safely! Panic and you are in trouble lol
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Giant hornets from Asia are a different species, they are huge! The Asian hornets here are actually smaller than our native ones.
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It's not backed by any science mate. Simply freezing tissue destroys the cells. Freezing sperm etc follows a special procedure, water is removed from the cells for instance. We can't freeze organs and successfully regenerate them yet, bodies are a way off. The problem with it is not just in how to 'defrost' them but also how to freeze them so as not to damage the cells. They remove the moisture from the cells when cryogenically freezing something.
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Easy, use a livebait rig. Small hook tied to the bend of a bigger hook, bait small hook with worm and it catches the small whiting, cod comes along and eats small whiting and gets hooked on bigger hook! It's a bit of a waiting game once it's on there.works very well as long as you ain't using too big a livebait.
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Good effort, We used to do 350 a day between 4 of us in the gamedealer I worked in! Once you know the cuts and seams it's pretty straightforward. Necks are the worst and they are huge on a 20stone stag!!
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With no experience of pest control.... usually badly! Pest control is a huge subject with masses of things to know what they are and how to treat them! Go work for a national first and get a basic understanding of how it all works,get your tickets from them and make the mistakes on their time. It's not just bunging a bit of bait around.
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That's because you are subsidised by us, the people who actually pay our Council Tax... Being cheap because of that is nothing to brag about! Precisely! The good thing about council pest control is they are rubbish at getting to customers in a decent timeframe, 3 weeks here for wasps and rodents....that's if they turn up!! Means the small companies competing with it get the jobs. If that's the case where you are, you should be making the most of all the opportunities presented to you.. And I'm not bragging about being cheap,just merely pointing out facts. We do as Wiltshire co
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That's because you are subsidised by us, the people who actually pay our Council Tax... Being cheap because of that is nothing to brag about! Precisely! The good thing about council pest control is they are rubbish at getting to customers in a decent timeframe, 3 weeks here for wasps and rodents....that's if they turn up!! Means the small companies competing with it get the jobs.
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Have I missed something, whats wrong with Storm in the right circumstances? I was thinking the same thing, plenty of use for storm or other highly pallatable single feeds on farms! I'm using talon soft on a pig farm and it's knocked the shit out of previously untouchable rats!
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Councils only do basic pest control, if any, now as it costs too much!
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Never gonna happen 1954 rabbit act states they must be controlled, rabbits are vermin and will never be endangered! They will bounce back again. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/349504/control_of_rabbits_guidance.pdf
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Ah yes and of course pest control is just bunging a bit of bait around isn't it!! They will be back once the rats get out of hand or the dog dies......the price of course then goes up for said customer!
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Don't see why not. It's still available for sale.
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Rape alarms would be ideal for this!
