Scented soap. They have even been known to swim round the U bend of a toilet to get to it in a bathroom if they smell it after you have enptied the bath.
Calais. They don't seem to have this sense of 'fairness' towards vermin that Blair and co have.
Are you sure the tunnels don't lead under your house ? If not just pour petrol down and light.
They're faster than you are.
Put them down the tunnels to protect the rats then burn the lot of them.
Are you quite sure they're rats, and not Siberian filigree hamsters?
Hunting with dogs is now illegal.
But do they shoot sideways; Ha ha!!
FOLLOW UP
Thanks for all the advice.
Also on the way back I picked up a .22 Air Rifle (non-Chinese). I do hope there's the opportunity to get Shredder before the bait gets him. [This is personal]
David
Is it?
Nah, but allowing your pack of hounds to kill a fox is!
Hunting for rats is exempt.
Only if you enjoy it it seems ... :-(
If your dog gets the rats without your encouragement it can't really be called hunting.
Mary
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What scent do you prefer, Mike?
Mary
Pitting your wits against a rat are you :-)
So would I ...
Mary
Might make a goood bait?
T i m
Only more than two.
Otherwise when Ms Hunt Sab takes her doggywoggy for a walk, and it kills a myxy rabbit, she might get done as well.
Try the Jack Russell. If they eat it, they were the dwarf hamsters.
Friends of mine keep all manner of rodents, including a pair of Glaswegian dwarf hamsters. They're the size of voles, smaller than mice, and pure evil. One ate most of the face off the other and is now called "Hanibal".
Not for rats.
...or it seems for foxes. 91 killed foxes yesterday - that's a third of the hunts making a kill.
"John" wrote | This is England and our traditional weapon is the longbow. | Everyone should practice for four hours a day and have | overdeveloped right arm muscles
Four hours a day longbow practice /and/ usenet? I'd never sleep!
Owain
On 20 Feb 2005, Owain wrote
You could fire an arrow into the monitor...that'd work.. ;)
Remind me to tell you about the time I shot my car with a crossbow.
Arrows aren't fired.
Mary
Probably took less explaining than when I shot a central heating radiator with a home made "cannon" that used steel ball bearings and 6mm hilti cartridges. The things teenagers get up to Ehh? I'm now 40+ something and hopefully somewhat saner and safer. ????????????
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