Rats!!!!! Again!

We have probably had rats all the time. Living in the country its to be expected.  April last year was when I last blogged about them, but they have been an ongoing problem, getting closer and closer to the house.

My neighbour last saw them walking along the high wall behind our boiler last autumn. I made a concerted effort to seal up and bait all the probable areas they could be nesting. I thought I had succeeded!

Not!!

This is the front of the house, behind and to the right of the window-box and yes that is heading under the house!!

30 years we have lived here and never in that 30 years have they ever been at the front of the house.

We are fortunate to have solid floors and no cavity walls, so that hole has been baited and blocked.

K was over for the weekend and has helped me saw up loads of wood I have had stored behind the greenhouse. As the wood store at the front was getting low we thought we would carry it through and get it stacked! That won't be happening! As we where re-stacking the existing wood I realised that there had been some serious excavation work under the log store, yep the rats have something serious going on under there too. That too has now been baited, but we will need to run the log store down as I may need to get professionals in and the store, as big as it is may have to be moved!!

I really, really dislike rats.

We have no cats in any of the local cottages now, could be a reason why the rats have increased, but all neighbours have been informed about the poison, incase you wondered.