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Rats are extremely clever and agile when it comes to food, so you have to be smarter than them - think about where your feeders are - move them away from fences, walls, overhanging trees etc, use poles to hang your feeders from, smear oil, vaseline, grease up the pole AND fit a baffle - make it as hard...
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The key thing to note when trying to prevent attracting rats is to ensure that they cannot get access to food - prevent food from reaching the floor. Use collection trays below hanging feeders and if you have a bird table its worth having a raised edge around the sides, again to stop food from being...
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Hello all, This is my first post, but I really need some help if anyone can provide any! Last winter I was unfortunate enough to have rats in my home for the first time - a thoroughly unpleasant experience. Although the advice from the pest controllers was to stop feeding the birds, I was very reluctant...
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Unfortunately we have just got a rat in our garden. It came from down the road, were a boarded up pub has been bought and is being worked on so the rats that lived there have now moved down the road to our housing area. I think the rat that visits us wants to break all the stereotypes. We cut back the...
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Hi Am, welcome to the community forum - you may be able to find the answer (or at least some helpful ideas) on this thread - http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/forums/p/4033/29129.aspx#29129 I hope that helps, all the best LRB
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Hi This is my first time on the forum so I apologise if I've listed this in the wrong place! My problem is that an old pub down the road has recently been bought and builders have started work. This has caused some rats that obviously lived there to come scurrying into our gardens. So far I've...
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In basic terms, rats are attracted to food. Any food that is left out, and easily accessed, can and will be taken by rats, thereby keeping the population fed and sustained. Rats can be a serious risk to health, especially to children. They can destroy and contaminate food stores and carry many forms...