ktbg Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 One day last week I spotted what I hoped was an enormous mouse in a garden on my road. Yesterday around 6pm there were two fox cubs in my garden playing with a dead rat, much in the way my cat plays with her mouse toy. There can't just be one or two rats about, can there? This is the first time I've seen a rat in the area and I've been here over 10 years. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted June 8, 2017 Share Posted June 8, 2017 Have a look here. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1829288 DulwichFox Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1144505 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Rats are everywhere in London.It's just that we don't usually see them. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1144770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomskip Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 I saw the cutest little rat under the shrubs at the edge of Morrisons car park yesterday. He was having a fine old time sifting through the litter. And I followed one up the path in Peckham Rye park the other morning. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1145197 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pilsbury Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 there were a few very "tame" ones around the japanese garden in PR at the weekend Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1146956 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scareyt Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Last Halloween I saw a rat walking down the pavement on my road, and then a crow swooped down, grabbed it and flew off with it. Very seasonal! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1146996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerman Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 Wow, that was probably so surreal for you and something to witness! I've never given rats a thought but had one (apparently they are solitary animals as learned this later from poo droppings) in the attic. At the same time had a wasps nest and thought it was the sweeping sound coming from the nest. Then the scratching/scurrying noise came along waking me up every morning above my head at 3, 4, 5, 6am every morning and I got to the stage at not wanting to go to bed at night! Had pest control in and they could say it was one rat as there were poo droppings in one place. Apparently, rats do their poos in one place unlike mice who poo everywhere! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1147140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
annafb Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 Cat brought live rat into house, K&O pest control were brilliant - told us how to control the problem before they came round, very knowledgeable and reassuring, sorted problem, now rat free. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1190897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigello Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 Big rat (10" more, nose-to-tail) in the community garden at P Rye Park on Saturday - rather s/he be there than around houses. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1190910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
almost peckham Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 Quite often see a rat or two scuttling around in and around st. francis park - normally on the sainsburys side. Saw two the other morning and a much less scuttly dead one about a week ago. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1190941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Goose Posted November 2, 2017 Share Posted November 2, 2017 Not many people like rats so if you want a professional solution, I can supply you with the approved traps and safety tunnels. I can deliver locally or you can purchase direct via my website ...https://www.trapbarn.comI am local and can deliver F.O.C.Please PM if you have any queries. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1190998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dulwichrat Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 tomskip Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I saw the cutest little rat under the shrubs at> the edge of Morrisons car park yesterday. He was> having a fine old time sifting through the litter.> And I followed one up the path in Peckham Rye park> the other morning.Oh that was you was it? We?re you checking out my tail? ;) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1191410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrwb Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 This rat spotted in PR yesterday around the pond. it's rather large 10"at least. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1191445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penguin68 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 That looks like a black rat (Rattus Rattus or the larger R. Norvegicus?). I have only seen brown rats about locally, including one walking insouciently up the divide in the Belair car park. The black rat (ship rat) was suggested as a vector for the Great Plague of 1665. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1191479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wulfhound Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 R.norvegicus is the brown rat. Tbh the photo could be either. Dark in colour, but small ears.Found a dead one in my garage the other week. After a half hour rummaging around boxes to discern the source of the appalling, stomach-churning stench. Grim. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1191560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs TP Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Plus side of urban foxes is that they do keep the rat population at bay to a certain extent. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1191730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sue Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Foxes eat rats??? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1191896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendelharris Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Sue Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Foxes eat rats???Definitely. Out walking in the countryside recently saw one catch a squirrel. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1191929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Foxes DO eat Rats .. and Mice.. Foxy Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1191972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kibris Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Thats the good thing about Foxes is that they do eat Rats thats why we dont see as many as before Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1191980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DulwichFox Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 I think it is possible that Rats do not hang around When they Smell a Fox or even see/smell Fox Poo. Foxy Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1192027 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamrogergarrett Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Rats have a better sense of smell than humans, as foxes are natural predators of rats they will avoid areas where a fox is present, but rats will attempt to feed even if foxes are present. I own a small family pest control company critter solutions. I am happy to advise in rats or any pest issues you may have kind regards Roger Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/155788-rats/#findComment-1193162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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