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Useless facts😄😄

We sat outside Notre Dame in Summer 2018 and bold as you like a rat came out of the shrubbery onto the low wall we were sitting on and gave us what I can only describe as a longing look to share our sandwiches. Suffice to say we moved on.
 
Dustydog said:
Paris has a real rat problem . 2 million people to 6 million rats. The rats are winning 🤮🤮
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An article in I think the Torygraph a couple of days ago. The Paris council are giving up on rodent eradication and have told the residents they will have to learn to live with rats!!

Can't see the French accepting  that can you? More riots coming up? (Well it is the summer so well into the season now )
 
Sounds like a city to avoid. If the problem gets worse it might affect the tourist trade and that might make them take action.
 
Raywood said:
Sounds like a city to avoid. If the problem gets worse it might affect the tourist trade and that might make them take action.
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I do not think London is without its problems too. The Embankment was one rat spotters mecca. Near us most of the retail outlets have rat poison bait boxes around their periphery. Mainly due to the mix of non food and food outlets including two food trailers.
 
Bird feeders in gardens can attract rats.
An old Chapel building in the road behind our house was demolished, and rats had been nesting underneath the floorboards of this old building.
When the demolition took place the rats invaded several neighbouring gardens including ours, and it took the council rodent control officer (rat catcher 😄) a few visits to rid the neighbourhood of these vile creatures.
The council guy advised us all to get rid of bird feeders, and although we all felt sorry for the local wild bird population, when we all complied the rats that hadn't been poisoned moved elsewhere.🐀
 
When two house at the rear of our garden had ground floor extensions old sheds and decking came up plus the drains. We saw rats on our fencing. But between the neighbours they were sent to their rat Shangri La. We have bird feeders and at night bowls of hedgehogs food go down but on our trail camera which is set up every night we’ve never seen a rat. Couple of nice and blasted cats though.
 
Dustydog said:
Something like this Clive?

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Working terriers take on hundreds of rats! | 💥🐀"Wowiee, there's so many"🐀💥 It's hard to know how one will react when faced with one of the largest swarm of rats we've ever witnessed as a pack.... | By Suffolk and Norfolk rat pack | Facebook

💥🐀"Wowiee, there's so many"🐀💥 It's hard to know how one will react when faced with one of the largest swarm of rats we've ever witnessed as a pack....
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That’s a good one. In the days before mobile phones and internet I got my guidance from Brian Plummers books on lurcher and terriers. He was a teacher in tye Black Country and with his buddies they would go rat hunting in chicken sheds. Still worth a read as the books are timeless.
 
We used to get free range sheep coming into the garden and chew or trample down the plants. So we put gates up where they used to come through.

Then we got pestered by Rabbits, which chewed away at the plants we'd lovingly planted. We put rabbit proof fencing around the garden but the cunning little devils still found a way in. In the end I had to resort to lead poisoning of the 22 variety. The buzzards and eagles were happy with this arrangement.

The free range rabbits slowly died out due to mixomatosis.

Then we got deer coming in and chewing up the plants and trampling down the others. We then had to put deer fencing all around the garden. But to big for my 22.

Rats were a minor problem just in the shed where they'd over winter and breed. Not many and the rat bait saw most of them off.

Now if we could sort out the tourists 😉
 
Sam Vimes said:
We used to get free range sheep coming into the garden and chew or trample down the plants. So we put gates up where they used to come through.

Then we got pestered by Rabbits, which chewed away at the plants we'd lovingly planted. We put rabbit proof fencing around the garden but the cunning little devils still found a way in. In the end I had to resort to lead poisoning of the 22 variety. The buzzards and eagles were happy with this arrangement.

The free range rabbits slowly died out due to mixomatosis.

Then we got deer coming in and chewing up the plants and trampling down the others. We then had to put deer fencing all around the garden. But to big for my 22.

Rats were a minor problem just in the shed where they'd over winter and breed. Not many and the rat bait saw most of them off.

Now if we could sort out the tourists 😉
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Hi Sam my brother loves it where you are he rents a cottage and goes Fly fishing for a couple of weeks😉
 
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