Rat with broken leg in my garden

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There's a grassy area behind my house full of rats and mice. I moved here in February and the neighbours said theres a massive rat problem

I have 4 cats so don't have many issues

Theres currently a rat hiding under the kids garden toy and its leg is definetly broken, 3 of its legs seem fine but it's dragging one behind it

Who can i ring about this? Will someone come out and take it?

I know people class them as vermin but it's still a living creature that must be in absolute agony right now

Ugh this whole thread is disgusting. I couldn't kill it myself, but I certainly wouldn't have handed it over to someone else to slowly poison it! Ibuprofen would have destroyed its stomach from the inside out and given it a nasty, painful and slow death. Really, really cruel. You'd have been better leaving it in the middle of the grass and letting your cats back out, if you couldn't get someone to take it to a wildlife centre/vets. As for the people saying disinfect your garden, get real, rats run all over your garden too – you just don't see them!

@Euclid

I can't believe that there are so many posts about a bloody rat. They are disgusting vermin who carry diseases and should always be killed but humanely.

I can't believe no one picked up my excellent Dead Parrot sketch segue. Philistines.

Bizarrely our horse at the time killed several... Stamped on a few,

I've seen horses do this. Couldn't believe it the first time.

I can't believe no one picked up my excellent Dead Parrot sketch segue.
Philistines

I did!

I gave you a smiley, Queef. I thought that pining for the fjords was inspired"

I personally have killed a rat with a shovel. It was a horrible thing to have to do, and it still haunts me to a degree, but it was a RAT, and where you leave one rat, you will end up with many rats.

They are vermin - destructive and disease-ridden, an I can promise you that if they got into your home, and found your baby sleeping in his/her cot, that dear little rat would have no compunctions at all about biting lumps out of your child!

They are wild animals, and I doubt that many of them ever have an easy death, with their 000's of progeny gathered round their deathbed, weeping and holding their paw.

Their destination is to die slowly and painfully after a fight, accident or incapacitating injury, or to die swiftly as an anonymous squeak in the night, grabbed by an owl or weasel or terrier (or of course, suffer death By Shovel). There is no room for sentimentality in Nature.

Also - all of you "Oh, I couldn't be so cruel" people - do you eat meat? Have you ever visited a slaughterhouse?

Trust me - being swiftly whacked on the head with a shovel is NOTHING to the prolonged physical, psychological and emotional distress that your dinner suffers.

NOTHING!

@Baboomtsk

Take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Excellent!!

I really think you need to contact your local authority - who you pay your council tax to. We had a rat in our garden and the ratmanRon came and put traps down

The rat in our garden laughed in the face of Atman Ron Leigh.

It sneered the traps, and cocked a snook* at the poisoned bait.

The shovel it was, then.

*Whatever a snook might be.

I can't bare rats. We had a litter of them in our compost bin last year, no adult to be seen, but these were quite young, I think 5 of them. They had to go, it was awful and I felt like a murderer, but it was quick and better than poison.

When’s the funeral?

Sorry - maximum of 10 mourners in the present crisis.

Names go into a hat.

Argh, ratmanRon did sterling work here, thankfully!