On 09/03/2021 12:04, newshound wrote:
On 09/03/2021 11:43, fred wrote:

Rats like to move close to walls and fences and seek cover so we find
setting poison in trapsÂ* along the wall covered with a piece of slate
effective . That plus the feral cat


+1. I've used bait boxes effectively; one time they nibbled open the
tupperware type box that the bait came in, and filched the lot. I didn't
have any problem with them for a while after that.

Being typically gadget-minded I tried one of the "electrocuter" type
traps but have never caught anything in that.

Also +1 for visiting cats.

My Grandfather had a cat with 6 toes on each paw on his farm.
Excellent rodent catchers.