Super rats

[John Pruden]

did anyone see the program about the new strain of rats if its one thing I don't like its a rat and they are big fellas poison doesn't effect them? jp

[john sutton]

just like politicians

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmate RATS are very like humans in they ways they grow bigger with the food supply. I worked in a flour mill many years ago in between trips to sea, And RATS were every where my shovel saw plenty of rat action, and the dock had plenty of floating bodies . Some of the rats were so big they attack full size cats {The rats use to eat the kittens} They got fed up eating the grain and every thing else ? BACK to topic any super rat can be killed by a nice shovel today I would work cheap soon get rid of them...

[Doc Vernon]

Yes indeed Louis
I too worked for a Flour Mill in Durban (Union Flour Mills) Umbilo Road Durban,and we at one time had a plague of very Large Rats that were living on the Flour ,many many bags of good stuff ruined !
So we got a Rat specialist in ,and he set up Steel traps all over the place,this worked wonders,and in about a Month all the critters were eradicated!
Never saw one after that!
Cheers

[Captain Kong]

The Houses of Parliament has over 650 super Rats in there.
They should brick up the doors and windows, throw in Six Rabid Dogs and that should be very effective in solving the problem.
Brian

[John Pruden]

BIBBY'S dock road Liverpool biggest ever they would eat potato flakes{used in mashed potato's} when the flakes hit the guts they would swell up leaving the rats like footballs bloated their legs would be of the ground lads used to volley them down the road the place had millions in there ? another was the African oil mills parliament street they would eat palm nuts the place was over run with them?

[Jim Brady]

There are poisons that will kill them but they dont want them to get into the food chain for fear of them killing off other wild life i.e. Barn Owls.You cannot use single traps to catch them as they breed so quick.A rat can have a litter of between 6 and 12 and can become pregnant again more or less immediately,5 females in the litter soon become pregnant and so it go's on.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Captain Kong]

every winter I get Rats in my garden, They are water rats from the lake next to me, they are different colours and look very clean then in spring time they go back to the Lake, not the same as the usual rats.
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. The BIGGEST rats I ever saw were in Saudi.
When I had my leg crushed on Sea Island , an Arab took me ashore in a boat and then disapeared into the darkness.
It was after midnight, I saw my ship sail past outward bound for Singapore, so I felt very alone.
I was sat there for a long time, didnt know where the Arab had gone, then I saw THEM, BIG is not the word to describe them, more like pit ponies,. They could smell the blood off my leg, I was bleeding quite heavily at the time. They all lined up alongside the boat, I grabbed my deck broom that I was using as a crutch and started to batter them as they were jumping onto the small boat. It was a fight to the death, me or them. I was swinging the brush battering them for a long time, if they had got me I would have been torn to pieces.
Then the headlights of a car appeared and shone in my direction and the remaining rats ran off into the darkness.
It was a taxi, to take me to hospital in Al Khobar so I was saved yet again. Then the hospital there also had rats galloping around the Emergency Room with cockroaches.
I didnt stay long.
Cheers
Brian

[Rob Hollis]

Brian, thon water rats are not rats atall. they are voles, at least that's what I was told and they are a protected species, i.e ye can get done for killin' them.

[gray_marian]

#9, Rob, Think I would risk it, though would have to employ Louis