Back to basics........Rats

[Rolfe 2]

To cut a very long story short, i was called in to a garden where the clients have every bird feeder known to man dotted around the garden to sort out the inevitable rat problem. There was a complete "warren" in the hedge row.......and holes all under the garden shed. The obvious solution (anticoagulant baiting) was out of the question after completing a risk assessment.......to many reasons to go into detail, so good old fashioned trapping was the order of the day, a few fenns in tunnels, and a few break-backs carefully positioned and we were in business. Here's the first of many i hope, that have succumbed to my fatal attractant bait.

[ArchieHood 3,692]

Go get em Rolfe

[salclalin 240]

Cracking Catches

[Hurlock 114]

Rolfe

 

Any advice mate next door neighbour is similar and they have a rat problem as I've seen them, setting a few bodygrips in tunnels and was wondering on your thoughts of using attractants (not that I particularly want to attract them to my garden but for trapping purposes?) to get the rats into a particular area, would this be a good idea?

 

Hurlock

[Rolfe 2]

Rolfe

 

Any advice mate next door neighbour is similar and they have a rat problem as I've seen them, setting a few bodygrips in tunnels and was wondering on your thoughts of using attractants (not that I particularly want to attract them to my garden but for trapping purposes?) to get the rats into a particular area, would this be a good idea?

 

Hurlock

They must be feeding something next door.......bird feeders or such like to have a problem. I wouldn't try and attract them to be honest because the food source they have is going to be a bigger draw than yours. If there are any runs through from next door then body-grips in a cubby will intercept them, but they may take a while to start using them.

[Hurlock 114]

I've got a walled garden rather than a fence but the one I saw was on the wall.

 

I won't bother with any attractant then, thanks for the advice Rolfe.

 

Hurlock