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RATS lots of Rats

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    #62
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,302 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Have a rat hole down near the oil tank in the garden. Rats used to make another hole when we blocked the previous one up. No more, though.

    Holly (west highland terrier) wants to meet them, but they're usually too fast for her. Holly tends to get on with the smaller birds, but doesn't like the larger one (esp hates the pheasants). And the rates stay away.


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    #63
    stevoman
    Registered Users Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭stevoman


    Hi folks. beleive it or not the best defence against a rat problem is in fact terriers. Their are fraternitys of people in the country who will offer their services free of charge with their terriers in order to get rid of a bad rat problem, and i know of cases where these peope have been taken to pig farms etc to get rid of the problem.

    It is actually a form a field sport and it is known as ratting. For those who beleive it is not a very hume way of dealing with the problem they couldnt be further from the truth. Terriers have for centuries bred especielly for the purpose of ratting and this is in fact in most terriers nature. It is only really in the last 75 or so years that the decline in terriers for ratting has begun, but as all animal lovers know only to well, their nature does not change that quick. In times before poison and modern living as we know it a terrier was owned by almost all family's for this sole purpose.

    Poison know has taken over but as we all now that also has in consicuences. It causes a slow death to the rat as oppossed to a quick one from a dog, also their is also always the danger of other animals feeding on the poison. Im not trying to start a debate on the ethics of the sport by any means, but i do urge anyone that has major problems with rats, to consider this avenue if they seem fit, as one good nights work for these men can kill an abundance of rats on a holding an reduce the problem to a great extenct.


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