Rats are back!!!

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We had a bit of a prob with rats but got rid of them but they are now back!! The bleeders have chewed Pheobe's £1200 saddle, all around the pommel and the saddle flaps, I'm fuming! Can anyone recommend a good saddle repair place in Lancs/Cheshire.Merseyside??
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Cant help you with saddle repair, but if you have that much of a problem, why not try an electromagnetic plug in. Works through the wiring. More effective than ultrasonic. I had a problem in the walls of a house I am renting. Most definitely no more. They are cheap to run too - Waaaaaay cheaper than the cost of a saddle over the year!!!!

eg: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Advanced-Pest...t_Control_CV&hash=item4ce8810f69#ht_874wt_907

Good luck
 
For Saddle Repair you could try Antony at Alsager saddlery nr Crewe, he is brilliant and very reasonable.
Or L for Leather in Eccles nr Manchester, Ive heard theyre good as well!
 
Rats in the house or tack/feed room??

I can't help re saddler, but if the rats are in the tack room, clear everything out and see where they are getting in, then clean everything down with a dilution of jeyes fluid, spray any holes with the same, and bloke up, Do be careful with the jeyes if you have cats though!!
Also might be a good idea to keep tack in a metal locker.
Another thing is to keep everything clean and don't leave horse food spilt on the floor. (not saying you are messy :)) as the bggers can smell a pony nut from miles off.
 
They are in the tack room/stables, all my food is in bins, I also have cats but they are not hunters! lol Saddles are now in the house.
The bleeders have chewed the rubber mats in the stables and even eaten their way through the ground underneath, can't believe the damage they have caused. We pushed poison into the channels under the mats which they took, all went quiet for 4 weeks, I haven't seen a one but they are obviously back with avengence!!
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You need to top up the poison on a weekly basis. Rats roam and as you kill off one batch another will be waiting to take their place. Horrible creatures. If I were you I'd put out bait boxes all around the perimeter of your property, then put extra boxes in the hay store, feed room and tack room. You really need to keep on top of things as rats breed at an amazing rate - they often have 15 'kittens' in a litter - and left to themselves will set up a Rat City around your stables.
 
I hate rats! We have two cats and I can say I have never had a problem. Look up master saddlers website and there is a repair section i think. Keep you tack in your house in future.
 
we used to have a big problem with rats some years ago and got some feral cats from a rescue(there is one that advertises in h & h now)we took 4 and they did the job very well, much better than poison IMO.....
 
I have found that the mouse and rat poison in Tesco is really affective! I works better than the stuff you get in Agri stores etc, downside is the its quite £££
One advantage of the snow is that is killed mine off fingers crossed!!!
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If you really want some swift vengance and numbers reduced quick - Find the number of the local terrier pack - The Hunt Sec in your area could probably help.
Then keep it up with the electro gizmo and poison.

Or borrow my old cob (RIP little stomper) - He used to squash them for fun!

Good luck with the repairs :)
 
Do the electric gizmo's work? We do sometimes get mice in the house and occasionally a rat (the downside of living in a wooden barn next to the woods!) and this would be fantastic. Don't like putting traps or poison down in the house as we have a dog.

We do get rats on our bird table too but we shoot those :-)
 
Happy Hunter said:
If you really want some swift vengance and numbers reduced quick - Find the number of the local terrier pack - The Hunt Sec in your area could probably help.
Then keep it up with the electro gizmo and poison.

Or borrow my old cob (RIP little stomper) - He used to squash them for fun!

Good luck with the repairs :)
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Yes I would recommend this...that said I have a JRT who is employeed as a rat catcher for the local farmers but last night at the yard he wasn't there so when a HUGE rat popped out from between 2 stables while I was filling a water bucket all I could do was scream like a big girlie girl and throw the water bucket at it!!!! I'm not scared of anything but rats I absolutely cannot cope with.

We are absolutely over run with them right now as well and the YO won't let us put poison down because of her dogs...wouldn't mind if the stupid dogs actually caught some rats (they are JRT's too!!) but they are useless...my JRT and lurcher usually catch some at weekends when they come to the yard though, might leave them locked in the yard on saturday night and see how many they will dispatch over night!!!:mad:
 
Just a quick note - becareful with rats - Weils disease is carried by some of them in their urine and bites - If your dog does get a bite please do consider taking them to the vet - I have lost a lovely dog through this and bless her she didnt deserve it :(

Rats really are horrible!
 
We used to live in a farm cottage with a rat run outside the back door, at one point the rats had more dog food under the sink unit than the dog had for a month
If there is rat holes, we found filling with the expandable foam filler very effective reasonably cheap as well, for some reason the rats can't chew through it.
We have had rats in the loo, jump out of rubbish bins at us and terrify me while on the loo, they are cheeky beggars and opportunists, I nearly borrowed a ferret it got so bad and it wasn't even winter
You have my sympathy
 
jendie said:
You need to top up the poison on a weekly basis.
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No - you need to top it up on a daily basis! NO rat poison kills with one dose - and there is never just one rat! So if they clean up the poison in one night, they'll be a bit seedy for a few days and then they recover (to breed a new generation of rodenticide resistant rats!)

The other reason for topping it up daily is that you shouldn't put too much down in one place at one time - in case pets get at it (and rats will actually chuck baits out of pipes and 'safe places' if they don't fancy the version you're feeding!
 
Feral cats defo the answer here. I cut a hole in my tack room, encouraged the cats (had to trap them later to neuter) and now have four residents. I can leave my feed in bags and it is untouched. Previously they were so bold and plentiful they used to run in and out in front of me. The rats did migrate to my garage where cats couldnt get so poisoned them there safely. Added bonus one cat moved in to house and is now domestic.
 
We have a couple of foxes in the wooded strip not far from the stables. They'll steal carrots - but we have no rats now.

The cat was useless - I think the rats beat him up!

Second the poison =- in our last stables we were overrun and a couple months of poison down every few days helped immensely. We used the sachets
 
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