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RATS ARE BEING disrupted from sewers and drains as construction picks up.
That’s according to Rentokil – who describe its increase in callouts as “back to Celtic Tiger levels as houses and offices begin to be built again.”
Rats carry common diseases like Salmonella, Weil’s disease, E.coli and TB. They also carry fleas, mites and ticks and can cause acute allergic reactions.
Dr Colm Moore, Area Technical Manager at Rentokil says, “Rodents like warmth, quiet, and a source of food”.
Tips to keep the rats out
Moore has this advice for anyone concerned about rats:
How do I know if they’ve sneaked in?
If you think you already have a rodent problem, look out for the following signs:
If this sounds familiar you can put some plain flour along the edge of the floor by the walls or on surfaces close to where you think the nest might be.
You’ll notice tracks in the powder within a few days if the nest is close – lovely.
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Get a cat
starve the cat for a week ;then the hunger might drive the cat to kill ;; but if the rat is big the cat wont take it on
Your cat must be a pussy Luke :)
I watched a documentary years ago when I was a kid and it was about rats coming up drains & up the toilet. I still have the image in my head & I’m always cautious when I lift the toilet lid. Having said that, I have absolutely no clue what I’d do if I ever lifted the lid to see a rat looking back at me. I fully believe I’d have a heart attack on the spot.
right place to S%^T yourself
Haha, every cloud Luke!
Thought they had all left the country with the tiger!
Flush it down, not actually a joke!!
It does happen. It happened to me. Fortunately the rat was as spooked as I was, and fled back down the jacks. I flushed for good measure.
We get mice every winter, blocked up all known entrances but the little buggers still manage to get in. TIP.. Always use the old-school wooden traps with some bacon fat, just melt the bacon with a lighter just before setting, gets them everytime! All these new pre-baited traps and glue traps are useless and expensive.
Buy that sound signal that you plug in to the wall it sends out screeching sounds and drives them crazy and they leave your house worked for me last year.
Old wooden traps are the best gets them every time. I use some chocky biscuits they love em.
Used the traps out of the 2euro shop that catches them alive. Captured five of them and released them back into the wild.
We had a robin in the kitchen the other morning. Think he came in to eat some cat food, played dead when the cat found him and flew back out when she wasn’t looking.
We have caught about 10 mice in the past few weeks, set them all free.
Really wish I still had pet rats, the mice don’t seem to come near when they smell rats.
Stop releasing them, you’ve most likely released the same mouse 10 times. If you use a trap which kills the mouse it will likely be the end of your troubles.
Kept them in an old spider tank i had for a week or so. Made sure i had them all and released them. Have never had mice since.
I have a spider that eats mice if ya want to borrow her
I’m after catching 4 in my van this evening I’m still shocked they had a feast on my crisps the weekend, it was there last meal
Peanut butter works best and won’t dry up. Had mice year after year, couldn’t keep them out :(
I release the ones I catch into the custody of my Patterdale terriers, works really well!
@sean.. They don’t work Sean, we tried them. We live in a semi dethatched and I reckon they coming in from next door through the attic. It seems the eastern Europeans who live next door don’t believe in paying for bin collection so they burn their rubbish in a steel bin out the back garden, I’m guessing they also use a composite heap for their food waste, because we also seem to get lots and lots of flies especially in summer. We have reported this to the county council but still no action.
I was going to say that also. We stock them in the shop I work in and they’re not worth a damn. Even our supplier said it. Where I live there is young lads who drink behind my house and have obviously driven them out of they’re nest because we’ve been fighting them all summer. Not to mention the people in my estate who decide to dump there dinner left overs on the green across the road. Disgusting. Ours got so bad if looked into finding someone who had a hunting ferret. Now that’s a rat killer
Female cats for mice, Jack Russell or other terrier breed for rats.
I’m going to be paranoid outta my tree now
No mention of the installation of water meters that are probably disturbing the little buggers ?
Awaiting the hilarious comments, who, what and where the rats come from. *comfychair *coffee
“Rise in construction causing rats to come up from sewers and drains”
Now that’s a harsh thing to say about NAMA’s “finest”
This post is up article is up nearly 20 minutes and no enda kenny gags yet
Anto
No rat bashing
Is that a euphemism for property developers?
“RATS ARE BEING disrupted from sewers and drains as construction picks up.
That’s according to Rentokil – who describe its increase in callouts as “back to Celtic Tiger levels as houses and offices begin to be built again.” ????
Ha Ha Ha
Anything to talk up the Ould false property bubble ehh.
I wait in suspense for the next headline.
“Evictee claims rat jumped out of the sewer and told him to get on the property ladder in squeak morse code”?
“A man meets a ferret on the street with a sandwich board advertising Hooke and MacDonald’s New launch”?
“A stray bloodhound led a young couple into a Permanent TSB First Time Buyers seminar” ?
“Many Cat’s are becoming homeless due to the housing shortage”?
Insert joke here.
What is a rodents favorite martial art? Ka”Rat”e..
Ah sure jasus tiss those bankers rising from da rubble WHAT!! Well someone had to be first!
Say no to Ratism!!
No to Ratisme!!
They’re leaving the sinking ship of government!
Japes has kenny hired rat catchers to add to his PR team
We better call a halt to all this nonsense of economic recovery then.
Regularly clean under cookers?
I’m fooked then
Jack lynch tunnel is closed lol keep the giant ones in cork lmfao :)
Pied Piper Kenny and his Dail ”they might lead in the right direction but but just thought maybe Dail are Lemmings ;you never know they might do the decent think [;;head west to Co Clare CLIFFS OF MOHER
Nidge better watch out
Got into my car one day the dash board lights were flashing like crazy the little shits had chewed the wiring in my car doing over 400 worth of damage not cheap when an insurance company won’t pay
The sound machines have roved effective for ke for years, another tip to bait tras peanut butter they love it
Have’nt a clue what you’re trying to say ,but peanut butter at this time of year, it’s great bait. Majority of people see a rodent and shout rat, most are just field mice. I’ve the same problem with government, easily identifiable by the guise of shirt and tie.
There are domestic and wild rats. The domestic rats are the ones that live in close proximity to us, they are smaller completely clean and do not carry diseases.
The wild rat on the other hand is much larger, lives in the wild and is therefore prone to picking up ticks and bugs. It was the ticks and fleas on the wild rat which carried the back death plague across Europe.
Big rat in my front garden. He’s either dead or on an extended snooze.
You guys must be psychic or something. The night after this article went up, I was woken 3 times with them during the night. In the attic space if the apartment and I don’t know how to get rid of them for good.
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