Help - anyone got any ideas about how to get rid of Brown Rats - the local influx (I think it's migratory), but my wife and neighbour think it's my feeders that are attracting the little (and not so little brown jobs).....I completely cleared my barn (where I assumed they were nesting - but apart from a single tunnel which I blocked with cement, there was absolutely no evidence of breeding, but there were literally hundreds of droppings...I have tried ultrasound - i'm not confident that it actually works, poison - taken readily but no bodies found? I've also shot a good number and hung the bodies - this did work for a month or two, but the location of the new infeststion makes using firearms a tad dangerous. Has anyone got any ideas re. the effectiveness of dogs - I know Jack Russell's are supposed to be good ratters, but I really fancy a Border Terrier (anyone out there know about their ratting capabilities)....
Last bit - I live in a remote house with a neighbour on one side and a chicken farm on the other (yep - it's a rat magnet), plus my garden runs into a 100 acre wheat field - all prime rat locations...I know that the rats leave the fields in August-September and return about this time of year so the current activity may just be rats on the move (at least I hope so)
Last bit - I live in a remote house with a neighbour on one side and a chicken farm on the other (yep - it's a rat magnet), plus my garden runs into a 100 acre wheat field - all prime rat locations...I know that the rats leave the fields in August-September and return about this time of year so the current activity may just be rats on the move (at least I hope so)