Ratter..... I Need Your Help Please

[Jeza]

I have a creature or more than one. How it / they got in I don't know. Can you tell me the best way to get rid. Do those plug ins work? I have to deal with it myself as Mic is unable. All what is happening to us of late is getting too much for me. They have torn bags of salted nuts and glazier mints. I posted a couple of days ago about missing choc bars. Can they really carry away whole bars without leaving a trace?
This is the link to the post I am speaking of.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1236125.html

[DTCwordfan]

do you have pets, Jeza.....?

[Jeza]

No DT, No pets.

[carrust]

Sounds like rats to me...oooerrr

[Jeza]

Carrust. If you're trying to frighten me, it's worked.

[carrust]

Just being realistic. Any signs of droppings behind furniture or under a bed?

[DTCwordfan]

rats to me as well. see if your council does a rat service, otherwise there are companies out there who will come and lay a poison down. What they do is clobber the rats' kidneys and they exit the house to look for water and snuff it outside.........

[sherrardk]

Can't you get a professional in? Save you hunting around under furniture, etc.

[DTCwordfan]

(hence why I asked - attics are usually a good place to put the poison down, or cellars, where Fido and Puss do not get to).

[Jeza]

No droppings and I have looked. No one has abswered about whole choc bars. I am now terrified.

[carrust]

If you live in Hamlyn you'll know what to do next:-)

[annieigma]

rats will leave droppings, quite large and plain to see. Get a bag of flour, sprinkle it around the area before you go to bed, and see in the morning if there are any footprints etc. Sounds more like mice to me, set a few traps, you can buy them in wilkos or the pound shop, put bread or cheese in as bait, or, get a jack russell, problem solved, they will sort any vermin and a lovely pet. ( mind you, it will eat all the sweets and stuff)
Annie

[Jeza]

DT. I am clearly being thick. How do they get in the loft. We don't have a cellar.

[DTCwordfan]

Rats can get anywhere.....they can climb walls and distort their skulls. If you have a roof, you will have air entries.

[murraymints]

Rodents would leave evidence ie droppings shredded paper etc...they would nibble at in situe even if they dragged stuff away....think you have human pests !!!

[annieigma]

Sorry, meant to say, yes, rats can carry stuff such as choclate bars to a quiet place and eat them, they can even steal eggs. one rat lays on its back with the egg on its chest and another rat tows it by its tail to a place of safety. dead intelligent, and are friendly to humans, make lovely pets, but carry weils disease which will kill you.

[DTCwordfan]

as annie suggests - look for mice as well.....there was a story of them living in a deep freeze - they had distorted themselves and slid through a crack....and then grown their fur out to counter the cold, eating the frozen goodies.

[DTCwordfan]

murray's theory - put a mousetrap right on the choccy in the fridge and whang....there go the human fingers.

[carrust]

I thought I had rats under my bath, it turned out to be a squirrels nest. Got a pest controller in to duff them up.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry, minty's theory - what am I thinking.......xx

[annieigma]

DTC, you are dead right.
I worked on a trading estate, and one of the companies there was a meat cold store. we had the vermin chap come round every week to our unit to lay poison, and he had caught some rats in his traps at the cold store, they were living in below zero conditions, and had coats so long that they looked a ball of fluff. they had adapted in a short time to artic conditions and had dug through a concrete floor to get in!!. and, of course, were eating frozen meat.