What to do with a dead rat?

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My cat has just killed five rats in the garden. What am I supposed to do with them? When it was just mice we just chucked the remains in the field at the bottom of the garden but I'm not sure I should do this with a pile of dead rats. I'm not sure I should just put them in the bin either. Any thoughts anyone?

@Knowingitsallover

Surely putting in food waste is also risky and disgusting as a lot of it is used for compost and rats carries diseases and its not meat thats from a supermarket etc Personally I would ask my waste people and see what they said

'Cos out of date raw meat from a supermarket is less nasty than 'organic' dead rat?!?!?

'organic' dead rat'
Like the midweek version of the Mumsnet chicken only everyone gets a leg

No views on how to dispose, but respect to your cat! 5 rats is a excellent night's work!

Rats might be contaminated with rat poison so you really dont want to put them in the compost.
The local council tell us to bag them up and bin them, and they are incinerated.

Don’t you have foxes around ? They will pick them up and eat them, if you are sure that the cat didn’t manage kill so many because they were already sick from poison.

Wow. Can I have your cat? Rats have moved in next to the chickens

"in the field at the bottom of the garden" sounds fine to me. That's where the ratties ran around when alive (probably)

Or my own compost heap (we put other dead things there, like random birds) or buried

This is making me want to put on the UB40 song rat in mi kitchen. Can't help aside from that.

Throw them in the field! They'll get maggots and gross in your bin. Especially in the warm weather.

May I suggest bag up and take to a dog poop bin? I believe it gets incinerated

I remember when I had a stray mouse in the house which died naturally luckily we had a field behind so I just had to pick it up and fling it that way.

I don't know why I had to do it, everyone else hid. A passing cat saw it and went running after. So there was a flying dead mouse, a springing cat and me frazzled with the dustban and brush.

This thread is making me want to vomit 🤮

Our neighbors cat got two last summer. I screamed like a wuss. DP shoveled them into the burning bin we use for all the branches we dry out.
I like to think of it as a respectful cremation

Kits yeah it's pretty horrid but these things happen! You can't stop the animal kingdom. Sometimes I think I can't wait to get off the planet.

Best thing really is just throw any dead rats as far away as possible.

This is my idea of a nightmare. Can I ask do you live in the country and would this be normal. I am lookin at s site near a corn or a rapeseed (I think) field and this is the only thing dampening my plan. Please any answers will really help.

We are semi-rural so the only thing I would do is lob their ratty corpses into field, woodland, anywhere further from the house and they'd be gone by morning. Foxes, red kites, something else, who knows?

I went to visit the local council waste depot recently. The waste gets taken there from the bin lorries tipped and then packed into big lorries.

It's teeming with rats; so many they're undermining the structural integrity of the buildings with their nests. There's a housing estate just a few hundred yards away I bet they get loads of visitors.

Double bag and bin. Wear gloves.

Rats are riddled with diseases.

@liverpool1981

This is my idea of a nightmare. Can I ask do you live in the country and would this be normal. I am lookin at s site near a corn or a rapeseed (I think) field and this is the only thing dampening my plan. Please any answers will really help.

Rats and other vermin come to where there is easy food. Avoid having chickens/ open compost heap/ growing soft fruit (strawberries etc.). You really need a good hunting cat too. Or a terrier type dog.

@liverpool1981

This is my idea of a nightmare. Can I ask do you live in the country and would this be normal. I am lookin at s site near a corn or a rapeseed (I think) field and this is the only thing dampening my plan. Please any answers will really help.

Rats are everywhere. Depending on the crop rotation you might get more around some years than others, they don’t eat Rape, but they like grains and Maize. I would worry far more about what the crops are sprayed with though, than I would worry about rats.

My cat's a serial killer too. This week it's rabbits - we're on number 4 this morning, number 1 appeared on Saturday. I do a variety of things depending on what he's done to them. If small animal like a shrew/mouse with no damage, I tend to fling into the field or deep in flower beds to decompose. Bigger animals I may bury in our compost heap to decompose. But most commonly, I have a bag of dog poo bags, bag them up and bin. The worst is when he has a taste for the animal, then clean up is much messier.