I suspect that may be for other reasons. You see, if rats like cooked sausages, then the council operative can probably wangle a gas ring or something in the van, and sausages to cook. I imagine it would be complete coincidence if he happened to have too many for the rats.
We have a lot of eggshells, seasonally, but Spouse hates me putting them in the compost, if they degrade it must take many years. I've tried drying and pounding them in a mortar so that he doesn't notice ... I wonder why you're not supposed to though.
But cooked food? You mean you don't use leftovers - you mean you HAVE leftovers???
The bones which we don't use are taken to a friend's dog. I can't think of other left overs. No doubt there will be some.
Excellent!
Ah well, I'm not a Master Composter ...don't have enough
'Cos the rats like them is wot I was told. Does it matter that they don't degrade? Think vermiculoponics. As part of our MC course we went to the local waste recycling centre. They neurotically remove all the bits of plastic people chuck into their green bins. When I asked why they bother, since the plastics are inert, I was told the *only* reason is that no-one will use the resulting compost -- not even farmers who know that inert material in soil is not a bad thing.
Errrrr, not very many, that's why I'm happy to compost them. But the shells of some squashes aren't very edible. And some home-grown veggies do tend to get a bit woody towards the end of the season. Or you discover on close inspection that you are not the first to have decided this is a nice potato to eat:-/
But MCs are primarily designed (IYSWIM) to encourage other people to compost.
Would the "rat man" not have several well cooked sausages on the van to use as bait? Would save him having to be trained in the use of (potentialy explosive) council property, even though he drives a van which is powered by lots and lots of little explosions ,who said H&S rules were sensible?
Mmm the bit I saw was the householder frying (well burning to a crisp) a sausage (under the rat mans instructions) the rat man didn't use his own bait at all.
They hung around for years here :-( Certainly didn't attract any kind of vermin.
There might be aesthetic and aniimal welfare considerations.
Good for the jaw muscles :-)
Oh that's not a problem, just cut out the hole. As long as the creature isn't still in there it's no problem - I admit that I don't warm to slugs on my plate.
Here there are limits of space and compostable stuff. Two bins suit us fine.
Funniest ratty thing I've seen was a pair of them dragging a whole plastic squeeze bottle of mayonnaise (with a hole nibbled in the side) off to their food stash in the back of the sofa.
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