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If you're close to Bunnings, buy some "Tomcat" Rat Baits. They are in blocks and pretty cheap.
The next problem is finding a way to get the baits in the roof. If the rats can get in there I'm sure there is a way.
Alternatively, if you have a spare $120-$160 you can call someone out and get reimbursed from the realestate.
Hope they go away ASAP!
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We had the same problem only 2 weeks ago, except they got into the house! It scared the living daylights out of me. We eventually caught them with rat traps. Hope you can find a way to get rid of them soon.
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Oh my god, you saw one? Eeeek! I actually just found a dropping in our wardrobe *hyperventilates*
Oh and bathsheba that is appalling! Renting sucks hey?
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yep, in our wardrobe as well! Because we knew where it was, we set 2 traps in the wardrobe, one on each end, and it was caught about 15 minutes later.
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When I lived in sydney we had a rat problem...and they werent normal rats... they were big ****off bush rats!! and no matter what we did they just bread and there was more of them. They ate THROUGH a plastic tub (about 1cm thick) to get at the rabbit food....which they half ate and left, so I put rat poision in it....didn't kill them...
when they started eating my books on my book shelf I had had enough...
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Contact your local council. If rats are prevalent in your area, they may have a program where a council person comes out and puts traps or baits or whatever in the roof for you, because they understand how difficult this is for many homeowners. Otherwise if you're renting get the landlord's help with it.
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*sigh* they've had babies now.
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One morning DH woke me up and said "there's something in the wardrobe... it's an animal..." meaning because i grew up on farms I had to do the checking and sure enough there was a possum perched on the shelf above my dresses. I ordered DH to open the front door (our bedroom is nearby) and i just grabbed the thing and marched it straight out! If anyone had been passing by our house (it was at about 5.30am) they would have witnessed a mildly amusing vision of me looking quite p*ssed off in my jimmy jams launching a possum out the front door onto the verander! Fortunately i didn't sustain any scratches. DH was very grateful and retold the story to an awestruck female league of office assistants at work the next day. I felt more useful than i had in years... probably on par to giving birth! But possums don't bother me too much, they are quite endearing really. rats? not so endearing...
Renting? For us it's been great, all things considered. Better than home ownership in that we have been able to live for 7 blissfully quiet (great neighbours) in a very large house on a very large block of land very close to the CBD.... totally un-doable on a single income... but now we want a real country experience... a bit more than finding possums in the house
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