GARDEN RAT RAID
If there is a pest that people really don't want close to their homes it has to be the brown rat. These revolting rodents have a reputation for spreading disease and are also in the habit of gnawing through everything from fence panels to power cables. While most farmers accept the inevitability of having a few rats around their livestock pens or grain stores, this pest is never welcome in or around the home and garden – and rightly so.
Nonetheless, plenty of rats make it past our defences and into the backyard. It is a problem that seems to be on the rise, and I'm getting more and more calls from anxious homeowners struggling to keep the rodents at bay with traps and poison stations.
The latest domestic rat Infestation I dealt with was one of the worst I had seen for a
