Rat With That?

[ladymuck]

Now we know you're making up bulltulip ..... you have no mates

This true, that was never my brand of choice

[d000hg]

The problem is that the law has changed and taken away the responsibility away from local authorities for keeping towns free of rodents in favour of privatisation. It's now up to individuals who do not have access to strong poisons. Most rats are immune to off the shelf poisons and rats are too smart for traps. Pest controllers use airguns on industrial sites and farms.

You can still call out a pest control company, in my area at least the council will still send their guy out to commercial premises but you have to pay for it.

Traps are the way we got rid of ours (live catch), our country rats aren't too smart for those.

[Paddy]

Yeah. Rats are a hard problem to solve, partly because they are very smart. We had the council put bait down when we had some enticed by the chicken food, after 2 weeks they hadn't as much as nibbled it.

When you think about it, a supermarket has about a million nooks and crannies - they could nest in shelves that are rarely used even.

The problem is that the law has changed and taken away the responsibility away from local authorities for keeping towns free of rodents in favour of privatisation. It's now up to individuals who do not have access to strong poisons. Most rats are immune to off the shelf poisons and rats are too smart for traps. Pest controllers use airguns on industrial sites and farms.

[Whorty]

This is Brexit related because there were no rats in Islington before Boris kicked all the forriners out.

My mate Jezza said so.

Now we know you're making up bulltulip ..... you have no mates

[d000hg]

If you look around the outside of various shops, petrol stations, restaurants and even on platforms at train stations you can see their bait boxes.

Yeah. Rats are a hard problem to solve, partly because they are very smart. We had the council put bait down when we had some enticed by the chicken food, after 2 weeks they hadn't as much as nibbled it.

When you think about it, a supermarket has about a million nooks and crannies - they could nest in shelves that are rarely used even.

[SueEllen]

Just throwing this out there, I know the contracting mantra is to be able to use google better than your client but is there any reason you post a link to an article and copy and paste most of the content without adding any value or insight as to your own thoughts?

You know you don't have to read threads?

(Incidentally I was just browsing the Metro)

[SimonMac]

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/03/rats-...rket-15357888/

Footage has emerged of rats nibbling on fresh pastries in the bakery section of a Sainsbury’s store before scuttling away as a shopper approaches them.

Filmmaker Anthony Mitson was browsing at the supermarket’s branch on Essex Road in Islington, north London, when he spotted the two chunky rodents gorging on the last croissant left on the uncovered stands.

He managed to start filming them just as they noticed him before leaping up behind the shelving of the dairy section and disappearing from sight.

Sainsbury’s said they took ‘immediate action’ to clean the store on Sunday and had called in pest control.

Just throwing this out there, I know the contracting mantra is to be able to use google better than your client but is there any reason you post a link to an article and copy and paste most of the content without adding any value or insight as to your own thoughts?

[SueEllen]

This is Brexit related because there were no rats in Islington before Boris kicked all the forriners out.

My mate Jezza said so.

Jezza wanted Brexit.

[ladymuck]

This is Brexit related because there were no rats in Islington before Boris kicked all the forriners out.

My mate Jezza said so.

[SueEllen]

If you look around the outside of various shops, petrol stations, restaurants and even on platforms at train stations you can see their bait boxes.

[xoggoth]

They'd have plenty to eat as people drop this and that. Saw a cleaner removing stuff from under the shelves a few weeks ago. Not as bad as I saw under the shelves at my local shop when I bent to pick up summit I'd dropped. Puke.

[SueEllen]

https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/03/rats-...rket-15357888/

Footage has emerged of rats nibbling on fresh pastries in the bakery section of a Sainsbury’s store before scuttling away as a shopper approaches them.

Filmmaker Anthony Mitson was browsing at the supermarket’s branch on Essex Road in Islington, north London, when he spotted the two chunky rodents gorging on the last croissant left on the uncovered stands.

He managed to start filming them just as they noticed him before leaping up behind the shelving of the dairy section and disappearing from sight.

Sainsbury’s said they took ‘immediate action’ to clean the store on Sunday and had called in pest control.