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Couldn't think of a better place to ask this..............
Anyway, the house I'm in has a rat problem. Rural as can be with neighbours having horses, chickens, ducks etc and all the associated feed stuff. The added on extensions are a bit rough where they join the original walls. I suspect that the extension joints with the original house footings are breached somewhere in that and will get there eventually. Ditto where the steel water pipe comes in. I'm doing each room at a time, floors up, ceilings down replacing the old fluffy insulation with Celotex and running the wiring in galv conduit. But at the moment still putting down the poison, in this case "Neororexa Gold". Seems to work - the scratching stops then you get an real grim smell for a week!
But the reason for my post - I lifted the carpet tonight and a particular floorboard on the ground floor to initially think that the little white plastic poison tray had been carried off. This sits on the dirt below the ground floor. Closer inspection reveals that they have BURIED the tray under a mound of stones, lumps of dirt etc. Is this a nesting instinct or a deliberate covering up to "warn" the others?
Anyway, the house I'm in has a rat problem. Rural as can be with neighbours having horses, chickens, ducks etc and all the associated feed stuff. The added on extensions are a bit rough where they join the original walls. I suspect that the extension joints with the original house footings are breached somewhere in that and will get there eventually. Ditto where the steel water pipe comes in. I'm doing each room at a time, floors up, ceilings down replacing the old fluffy insulation with Celotex and running the wiring in galv conduit. But at the moment still putting down the poison, in this case "Neororexa Gold". Seems to work - the scratching stops then you get an real grim smell for a week!
But the reason for my post - I lifted the carpet tonight and a particular floorboard on the ground floor to initially think that the little white plastic poison tray had been carried off. This sits on the dirt below the ground floor. Closer inspection reveals that they have BURIED the tray under a mound of stones, lumps of dirt etc. Is this a nesting instinct or a deliberate covering up to "warn" the others?