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Saw a massive black rat climb in under the dishwasher last night. Have to head down the bellarine today and turn the alarm on here. Bugger. Thing would surely set it off.
Never seen a rat in the house before, just a few mice back in the day.
Hrmm
Time for a cat. Is Butters available for a ratting consultation?
Would you like to borrow a Jack Russell?
Massive Dislike! Pet rats nice, dishwasher rats bad.
HATE rats
Can you get a picture of it at all? There are a few types of rats near the coast, some are native but most are introduced pests
They're so fast couldn't get one :( This one is actually at the place here in Melbs (which I have to leave and head down the coast, but alarm is the problem). I'm really not a fan of poison so plan of a attack is to stop it from getting into the house with a bit of wood under the dishwasher and deal with it on sunday somehow lol.
Stainless steel wool balls, the thicker coil type, is excellent for stuffing gaps around pipework to keep rodents out. They don’t like to chew on it. The trickery part is to make sure the rat is trapped out of the house, and not in, when steel wool is applied!
ooh that's a very good idea thank you for that I'll go that method.
And yea, I don't know whether it's inside or still under the dishwasher / wherever so that's a problem heh.
If it has black/brown fur and a white tail tip, then might be a rakali - not a rat as such.
Good idea! If you're not interested in poison, I think Bunnings has humane traps that don't kill the rat. But I'm not sure.
I made one with a bucket, tp roll on a stick and Pb on the roll. Rodent climbs up tries to get to Pb and falls in the bucket.
I also vote for an excuse to borrow Butters (even if all he does is watch you and look stupidly handsome)