3 dead rats outside house

They probably ate some poison and died on your doorstep...

I thought "domestic" poison was nothing more sinister than Wharferin(sp) to help rats bleed to death from thin blood.

I'd suggest a hex has been cast upon your residence perhaps a former resident was into the dark arts or foolish individuals have created a portal by which entities can now frequent with dabbling with ouija board.

OR.... a cat of previous residence has returned after travelling many hundreds of miles and is now mopping up some of the recent nocturnal residents...

:) :) Better found on the path outside than under your bed!

;)

"I do not believe in superstitions". Are you sure?

A neighbour has had the exterminators in. I happen to know that when rats do take poison, they do not conveniently die on the property which laid the poison. Brian

If you are adding water to the pool, it means you are *not* in the UK and the dead rats are to remind you that you are posting via a web based forum to a UK newsgroup.

Maybe it's a euphemism for having a piss in t'outside privy.

Owain

:-))

Yeah it's probbly one of those Rod has done some DIY for in exchange for th em helping him do DIY, it's realy just a trough in the garden where he usu aly pisses when he can't make it to the dunny in time, so he's called it a swimming pool to impress people.

I would have said that was unlikely. Rat poison makes the rat feel unwell and tend to head back to the nest before dying. (Tidbit of info picked up from the rat extermination program on South Georgia where is meant that scavengers tended not to eat dead rats - the corpses were safely hidden in their nests in the tussock grass.)

before dying.

Personal experience, reinforced by a quick Google

which admittedly is a highly selective sample, would suggest that you are wrong. Assuming all these rats have been poisoned or at least "felt unwell" that is, immediately prior to their unfortunate demise.

michael adams

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The last one I poisoned died in the bait station. Damn inconvenient as I could smell the damn thing but didn't think of looking in the bait station for several days.