There's a rat in mi garden what am I gunna do?

[Smokin Joe]

Way to go.

 

[swee'pea99]

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Way to go.

Why mess about with half-measures...

 

[welsh dragon]

I'd go with shooting the begger.

 

[rualexander]

I'd leave it alone.
Place I stayed in Singapore once, the guy trapped rats in a cage trap then went out and poured boiling water over them.

 

[jongooligan]

Are you feeding the birds with fat balls? We were and the rat just lapped them up. So we stopped and the rat has gone somewhere else.

 

[Rural Spaceman]

Rats are just pigeons without wings aren't they?

 

[Lilliburlero]

Are you feeding the birds with fat balls?

 

[Smokin Joe]

If you get more than one rat at a time, an aerosol can smeared with Marmite don't half go up with a bang when hit with a .22 slug.

Or so I'm told

 

[classic33]

I'm beginning to feel a bit sorry for poor Ratty. Perhaps he's just a bit misunderstood and took a few wrong turns in his life, poor sod.

And the one that you caught?

 

[classic33]

Yes.

 

[classic33]

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Way to go.

 

[Sara_H]

Are you feeding the birds with fat balls? We were and the rat just lapped them up. So we stopped and the rat has gone somewhere else.

Yes, birds love fat balls.

 

[Drago]

Air rifle, patience.

 

[CopperCyclist]

If you get more than one rat at a time, an aerosol can smeared with Marmite don't half go up with a bang when hit with a .22 slug.

Or so I'm told

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

 

[byegad]

So, my dining room table overlooks my grounds and on a number of occasions whilst eating we've watched as Mr Rat trots across the lawn and has dinner his self, dining in the bots and bobs dropped by the birds from the feeders.

My colleagues at work are advising all kinds of rat torture and destruction, warning that I'll soon be invaded by 1000s of rats otherwise.
I'm a bit unsure. I thought you were never more than 6 feet from a rat in an urban environment. Just cos this ones happy to perambulate through the garden shouldn't earn him a death penalty should it?

1. Learn to spell in the heading.
2. Kill the rat, and any ratty friends, before they breed and populate your garden.
3. Rats love bird food, so stop feeding the birds after you've killed all of the rats, ie. you have not seen any, nor trapped any in the last two or three weeks.