You Just Gotta Love Cats

[Mups]

A very good picture, Alex.   What a poser.  

[klondike]

[JBR]

Brilliant!  Cats are God's best creation, in my view.  Unlike dogs, they do what they want, not what we tell them to do!

[Scrumpy]

[Alex]

I loved that last photo with the cat not sure if it's a hole or not.  They're just amazing creatures !

[crabbyob]

what a lovely post Alex.. your starting my day with a smile... I love cats but cant have any due to my roaming...i generally talk to animals [but dont tell them too much]

[crabbyob]

lol, i dont know if it worked, we saw rat signs so put a trap out.... i read the post about returning cats did the above post then went for my breakfast, looked out the balcony door when i got back....lol... bugger me a big 'thing' in the trap... it turns out its a civet.. locals call them 'tree cats' ive taken a photo but ive gotta get it onto the laptop to post it... i will do 'eventually' ..lol.. so the cat returned

[klondike]

Rats and mice are everywhere here. You see bait boxes round the back of shops and bits of council land too in places. Don't get that many wild cats though although there are plenty of foxes in towns as well as the countryside.

[Mups]

Rats and mice are everywhere here. You see bait boxes round the back of shops and bits of council land too in places. Don't get that many wild cats though although there are plenty of foxes in towns as well as the countryside.

There are bait boxes everywhere here, too.   They've even got them all round the doctor's practice, and the pharmacy next to it.

The wretched things have been in my garden and tunneling under my shed again too.   I mostly blame next door's chickens because he doesn't shut their hatch at night, so the rats go in for a party round their food trough.

[Scrumpy]

We have a fox that walks down the road... in the middle of the road... as if he owns the place..
He sits at my front entrance deciding which way he is off to.. Cars do not frighten him... drivers respect him.. He sunbathes on the top of my shed.. When the sun moves.. so does he..
Thank goodness that rats do not show themselves .. My friend has them popping into her garden..  

[klondike]

I had a rat or possibly rats get into the floor void. One came up in the cupboard under the sink and raided the bin. It had been in the cellar too. It took me a which to realise - I thought the multipack of crisps I had in a bag hanging from a shelf at the top of the cellar were bust when I bought them and I was being clumsy putting stuff in the bin and missing. Then I realised when the water pipe to my dishwasher was leaking because it had been chewed.

I opened up a hole at the back of the undersink cabinet and set a trap. I never had a customer but I opened the door when I heard scratching and saw it through the hole.

I removed the undersink bin and have a small auto opening one on the worktop for anything foody or soggy and the bigger bin in the kitchen gets used mostly for non-recyclable  wrappings. 

I pulled out the machines and blocked all gaps with wirewool laced polyfiller.

Roland got some nice little treats on a ledge between cellar and floor void and in some boxes from and back of the house. I also set traps. The traps never caught anything but the little presents disappeared and the blocks in the traps were getting chewed. I seem to be entirely rat free now but it took a lot of effort and quite a while to get to that happy state,