RATS!

[shelleyj]

yeah right!!

[try]

Oooooh shelleyj, you know me so well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[halfpass]

I've had some amazing nights out in Cardiff I know some of the gutters extremely well

[shelleyj]

I'll report back later! (or tomorrow or Monday)

[try]

havent seen anything on the news reports about wild women in Cardiff yet.........?

[try]

Oh dear, still no signs of life shelleyj?? headache perhaps?

[Milliesmum]

I find orange juice and paracetomol very good . . . . . .

[shelleyj]

First time I've ever had a headache before I've finished drinking - jumped ship early and was home by 7pm, so glad I didn't make the evening news!!!! I'm definately getting too old for all this (or perhaps my liver is getting old before the rest of me?)

[overatdaknee]

Shelleyj, there are 11 people in the Gatwick area still nursing mountain sized handovers after the Hunt ball on Friday night- all swearing never to touch another drop of alcohol again...................................until the Winter Champs that is!

[shelleyj]

thanks god it's not just me. Spent most of mothers day in bed which I thought was a good move.

[ladymuckpicker]

I have a deep rooted fear of rats. I'm not much of a dancer but if if I ever see rat I perform what can only be described as an unchoreographed version of riverdance. Up until last week I had not seen a rat at my stables for a few years, that was shattered when one ran under the gate it took me 10 minutes to ge over the shock! I now know it was only because I hadn't seen one for all those years, not that they wern't around. Its the tails that I really hate long and hairless not fluffy like squirrels. I may consider therapy or a shotgun license and eradicate the blighters.

[shelleyj]

don't go for the shotgun it makes them useless as firelighters........

[ponymadlucy]

the ones at our yard are practically tame cheeky little beggars!

[mjh]

We have had 6 dead ones in the last week in my poor horses water bucket!! think they eat the poison then get thirsty and fall in... cannot believe how many we have this year

[overatdaknee]

Mine too- they scuttle around at feed time despite me swearing and throwing things at them- we could probably live side by side in peace if it wasn't for them sh****ng in my tack room! That is war!

[tesstkat]

haha you all make me giggle, we had a few rats this year and managed to corner one of the little blighters it were huge but to my diadvantage my ferrets were all locked away for the night so i were only armed with a plastic spade and every time i belted it it just squeaked and ran off not one of my brightest moments the little bu**er still terrorises the farm and caused one of my best ratting dogs to get a huge abcess the dog now has contract out on the rat

[teemak]

seems like all the neighbourhood rats have decided it's too wet to live out and have moved in to winter quarters earlier this year.

Free course mix for lunch, dinner and tea, lovely deep straw banks to wriggle about in, and just 2 german sheperds( that ar'nt very quick) to worry about!!!!

WAR ON RATS starts today!!!!!!

[Milliesmum]

Did anyone see that programme with Martin Clunes (one man and his dogs, or something like that), where the JRT's came to kill the rats? Bl**dy fantastic dogs, sorted it in no time, biggest pile of dead rats you've ever seen, must have been about twenty.

[viking]

Didn't see it Milliesmum, but good for them.

[danniebmum]

oh isaw that program milliesmum those little dogs were fab so fast,we have 4 border terriers to slow to catch cold should have taped that and made them watch.mind you one of pups had first kill other day a big fat frog,yak nasty.

[Milliesmum]

Weren't they quick? Must be the most humane way to kill a rat IMO, literally split seconds.

[shelleyj]

our jrt hasn't got a clue!! had mice in the feed room - showed them to her and she just stood there with a totally confused look on her face!
I should also reassure you that I did not bbq with any rats at nps - in fact took the car and got fish and chips and pizza from malvern!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[absfabs]

Wish my terrors would only kill rats. The little s*d* bring a whole host of innocent victims to the door! Fluffy, feathery, scaley, yeuuuk!

[smokeycott]

my little monster(aka pongo poodle paws) jrt lives for mice n rats, came home one day and he d got in garden shed, pulled everything of the shelves mixed them in with course mix and growbags which hed dragged out to get a mthe meeces what a bl00dy mess , he was totally black looked liked hes been down the mine!!!!! he chases anything that moves , hates cats,even mine but he does have adhd!!!!!!

[try]

We all know shelleyj that the reason we didnt bbq rats at Malvern was because they are so difficult to light in the rain..!!
We did nearly manage Chicken for tea one night though due to the three chickens that had travelled up to Malvern from the New Forest roosting UNDERNEATH their lorry!!! I wonder if they managed to catch them to take them back home!!!

[shelleyj]

yeah they do tend to be a problem to light when wet I'd forgotten about the chickens :'(how did they manage to travel down the motorway under the lorry, am having visions of chickens in ww1 type flying goggles and hats.... having said that have just come back from an afternoon on the wine in cardiff so it could be alcohol induced

[try]

Are you using rats to light the fires in the bar in the Smite Club?? I can just see you behind that bar!!

[pipandflo]

We thought we saw chickens in the lorry park at NPS - put them down to too many Pimms! Did they manage to take them home?

[try]

Havent heard if they rounded them up and caught them! They said their son was furious as they were his prize chickens! They must have hung on extremely tightly coming up the motorway!

[wobbles]

Hi just found this thread, very funny and interesting reading , we have a problem with Han rattys, they got into our feed room and into a drawer where I kept the horses First Aid Kit, bandages etc, all eaten and pee'd etc on, they even got into the tubes of ointments and sunscreen, we haven't needed it this year , very clever as they extracted the ointments without making it obvious.
So I am going to try the Rat n Bait to see if that works