to think i can leave a decomposing rat in the wall cavity to decompose?

[Anna1976]

My parents live in a double-brick cavity-wall house, built in about 1905. It's become apparent in the last few days that something is very dead indeed, somewhere quite close to the back of the house.

The stink is appalling today, but the revolting blowflies of the last few days aren't around any more. It took us until yesterday to localise which wall vent they were coming out of, having already checked under the house, the chimney, and pulled up the floor in the loft, to make sure we couldn't find anything emanating flies.

Getting the bloody thing out of the wall cavity would be basically impossible, and the stench should only haunt my parents' house for... um ..not sure how long....

Yuck. Any ideas how long it might go on? or what else to do? I think it would cost less for the parents to move into a hotel for a couple of weeks (or just grin and bear it) than for any attempt to be made to remove the thing.

there is nothing more satisfying than shooting a rat. i have been known (child free days) to sit for a few hours with the riffle out the back door waiting for them. it actually became quite obsessive but very self satisfying.

The only thing stopping dh doing that AhsataN is the gun law in this country

I think the concern was animals eating poisoned rats - which is harder to prevent than animals (other than rats) eating poison - we were worried about (other people's) cats and dogs, but also buzzards.

he he you can shoot within the perimeter of your property and it is a low caliber riffle used specifically for pest control. you can pick them up from the market without a license. we also used poison in bags so they could take it back to the nest.
they stagger about drunk, they would still give a good bite because my dog thought all her Christmases had come at once when one staggered into the garden, it gave a good fight then keeled over.

they can chew their legs off to get away

AGGGRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

brain bleach, pass me the brain bleach, my poor head has a horror movie in it.

yes thats why snaring foxes is the shittiest idea ever because they will chew their legs off to get away then die a very slow agonizing death. but that it a whole new bun fight thread entirely.

low caliber riffle

My mother was a crack shot back in the day. I wonder if that is hereditary.

Oh who am I kidding, I can't even get a basketball in the hoop, let alone a small bullet in a moving rat. Even one hobbling due to chewing off own legs.

I wish I did not have the movie in my head that I have in my head.

He is leaving a blood trail.

And I feel like an utter heel and guilt ridden.

Cos of glue trap that I used IN MY IMMAGINATION

fastweb- they shriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiek as well. For hours

cackle

Thing about the poison is they will crawl off somewhere quiet to die and you will get the OPs problem x loads of the buggers.

My friends rabbits were also poisoned that way, their LL had put some down and not told them and the rabbits found it before she did

And you can only shoot them if you are a really good shot, otherwise they'll take a while to bleed out and wander off to find somewhere quiet to... you get the idea.

Ferrets and dogs are great.

I think the poison sort of mummifies them and they don't stink

Great, now my amputee self mutilating rat, guilt ridden, blood stained horror movie has a sound track.

valium - yes, I think you are right - and judging by the dessicated (mummified) rats which showered down from our ceiling it works because they were fairly new (the poison we had put down was in the nests) and hadn't been stinky. Those that died outside we disposed of whilst still fresh, though.

How's the movie going, Fastweb?

i am a good shot in the head and they shrieeeeek when you hit them "mwahaaa ha ha ha". i take great pleasure in killing them and they torment me making my life a misery.
i need to get myself some more poison as i am running low.
strange thing is i like mice i wouldn't mind a few mice instead i wouldn't want to kill them.

lalala really wish I hadn't opened this thread . dh out bait down for mice a few weeks ago ...

Oh they DO shriek, do they? One trap went off one night and I swear I heard shrieking and a bit of thrashing around before it died. Dh said it was me imagining it!

no they do! ha ha ha its fantastic i shot one one day and the pellet hit it so hard it shrieked, flipped up in the air did a belly flop and died. we all jumped with glee. i must say im quite a crack shot it runs in the family so is my dad.

I really hate them, they do so much damage!

How's the movie going, Fastweb?

James Herbert looking distinctly Disney in comparision.

I have had to send DH out for emergency Tiramisu.

I'm going to drown my angst and guilt in fat.

If anybody mentions self canabilising mutilation and anguished howls from Angst and Guilt when drowning.....they will get a very well licked spoon hurled at them.