Author Topic: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?  (Read 3997 times)

hellymedic

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How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« on: 07 August, 2017, 02:27:36 pm »
David says there's a HYOOGE dead rat behind one of the garden sheds.
Flies are swarming around it. It's about 20 metres from the house.

David is squeamish.
I am immobile.

What next?

T42

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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #1 on: 07 August, 2017, 02:53:38 pm »
Bury it & plant rhubarb.  Give crop to neighbours.
I've dusted off all those old bottles and set them up straight

Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #2 on: 07 August, 2017, 03:07:25 pm »
Probably best to get it moved as it might have been poisoned.  Does the council respond to such things?

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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #3 on: 07 August, 2017, 03:24:53 pm »
I find occasional dead but intact rats on the middle of my lawn for some strange reason.  I just bury them deep in the garden.

Yes I'd expect the council to deal with it if David can't bear to touch it (even via a shovel).


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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #4 on: 07 August, 2017, 06:11:48 pm »
Hang it on your barbed wire fence, obviously.


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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #5 on: 08 August, 2017, 12:08:51 am »
An impressive gamekeepers gibbet.
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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #6 on: 08 August, 2017, 09:29:22 am »
An impressive gamekeepers gibbet.

Moles rather than rats though, methinks.

Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #7 on: 08 August, 2017, 09:57:23 am »
Moleskin gilet anyone

Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #8 on: 08 August, 2017, 04:18:40 pm »
I had the occasional one on my veg patch a few years ago. Into a carrier bag, then that into a well knotted bin bag, then into the council bin.
I'm perhaps slightly less squeamish than your David, so rather than using the carrier bag as a 'glove', get it onto a spade, put it into the open neck of a bin bag laying on the ground,  knot that bag, then double bag it into another bin bag.
Most unpleasant.
Too many angry people - breathe & relax.

T42

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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #9 on: 08 August, 2017, 04:23:41 pm »
Notwithstanding what I wrote up there, our usual approach is to pick them up on a shovel and throw them out the back of the barn - it's a patch of waste land full of nettles and brambles, and inaccessible to the dogs.

Alternatively, you could give Cameron a good talking-to and threaten him with prosecution for trespassing.
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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #10 on: 08 August, 2017, 04:32:45 pm »
I just pick the rat up by the tail (through a paper towel).  Don't like the idea of any disease getting on my spade.  I'm squeamish in that way.  Bit silly.
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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #11 on: 08 August, 2017, 04:42:57 pm »
I'm surprised no one has yet suggested atouille.
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ian

Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #12 on: 08 August, 2017, 05:46:19 pm »
Chuck 'em over the fence. It's scrub at the top of our garden. Otherwise I'd bag and bin them. Nothing to be scared of, there's not been an outbreak of zombie rats for a good decade. Catching live ones is more fun.

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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #13 on: 09 August, 2017, 12:39:23 pm »
I'm surprised no one has yet suggested atouille.
or go one better with athreeeeee...
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hellymedic

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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #14 on: 09 August, 2017, 06:09:57 pm »
David reports he buried the rat.

Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #15 on: 10 August, 2017, 10:19:23 am »
I launch them with a spade into the field next door. If I didnt have a field I would just bag and bin it. Once the chickens got to one before I did and wouldn't give it back, they ate it.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #16 on: 13 August, 2017, 08:59:40 pm »
You need James

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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #17 on: 14 August, 2017, 04:44:20 pm »
I'm surprised, and impressed, by the number of YACFers with fields next door.

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Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #18 on: 17 August, 2017, 09:01:31 pm »
I'm surprised, and impressed, by the number of YACFers with fields next door.

I'm not as posh as the rest, I have to walk across the lane to throw dead rats in the ditch
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ian

Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #19 on: 17 August, 2017, 10:41:12 pm »
I don't have a field at the top of the garden. I have yetis. Though to get there, I have to navigate the Plateau of Bears, which is as descriptive a definition as it gets.

Re: How Should We Deal With A Dead Rat?
« Reply #20 on: 31 August, 2017, 09:11:56 am »
I'm surprised, and impressed, by the number of YACFers with fields next door.

We have a racecourse :smug:

Just need dead rat..
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