OLD METHODS.........

[TULLY LURCHER LAD 0]

Just got back from a long weekend away. Stayed in a old gamekeepers cottage and on the wall was a few old things that a poacher would have used. In it was a thing called a FERRET MISSILE that consisted ov a curtain ring and a split pin. Does enyone on here no what this would be used for?

[The one 8,511]

Sound's like a old fashioned muzzle

[para1 11]

Sound's like a old fashioned muzzle

[rosspti 2]

Talking of "Old Methods" an old chap I met, who's father was a 'keeper, was telling me about old fashioned ways of getting rid of rats.... (not for the faint hearted....

 

One was to catch a rat and whilst giving it water to keep it alive, you must not feed it. Keep it to the point of starvation, near death, etc. then root out a rat's nest and find some babies which you then put in with the starving rat. The starving rat will then eat the babies, and it will then be a cannibal rat. Releasing your monster cannibal rat into a rat infested area will, apparently, soon clear out all the rats. The logic is that rats are very social, family oriented, animals and a nutter on the loose will soon shift them....?

 

The second, possibly even more grim approach was to catch a rat (put on some thick gloves) and then using a needle and thread sew its backside up so that it can't poo any more. Poor bugger!! If you then release the rat into an infested area, after not too long its squeeks of discomfort will soon clear out all the other rats as they will fear that there is some disease, etc.

 

Personally, I'd go for terriers or poison!!

[scothunter 12,609]

Talking of "Old Methods" an old chap I met, who's father was a 'keeper, was telling me about old fashioned ways of getting rid of rats.... (not for the faint hearted....

 

One was to catch a rat and whilst giving it water to keep it alive, you must not feed it. Keep it to the point of starvation, near death, etc. then root out a rat's nest and find some babies which you then put in with the starving rat. The starving rat will then eat the babies, and it will then be a cannibal rat. Releasing your monster cannibal rat into a rat infested area will, apparently, soon clear out all the rats. The logic is that rats are very social, family oriented, animals and a nutter on the loose will soon shift them....?

 

The second, possibly even more grim approach was to catch a rat (put on some thick gloves) and then using a needle and thread sew its backside up so that it can't poo any more. Poor bugger!! If you then release the rat into an infested area, after not too long its squeeks of discomfort will soon clear out all the other rats as they will fear that there is some disease, etc.

 

Personally, I'd go for terriers or poison!!

 

who thought that up Josef Mengele

[Malt 379]

Just got back from a long weekend away. Stayed in a old gamekeepers cottage and on the wall was a few old things that a poacher would have used. In it was a thing called a FERRET MISSILE that consisted ov a curtain ring and a split pin. Does enyone on here no what this would be used for?

 

Maybe it was the firing pin for a little grenade you strap to the back of the ferret. Pull the pin, put the stinker in the hole and stand well back! Timed fuse, 5 minutes later when the ferret is in the heart of the warren: BOOM! Dead rabbits everywhere & no digging!

[TULLY LURCHER LAD 0]

Thanks all just was intrested as i have never seen it before.

[Ideation 8,216]

Just got back from a long weekend away. Stayed in a old gamekeepers cottage and on the wall was a few old things that a poacher would have used. In it was a thing called a FERRET MISSILE that consisted ov a curtain ring and a split pin. Does enyone on here no what this would be used for?

 

Maybe it was the firing pin for a little grenade you strap to the back of the ferret. Pull the pin, put the stinker in the hole and stand well back! Timed fuse, 5 minutes later when the ferret is in the heart of the warren: BOOM! Dead rabbits everywhere & no digging!

 

 

Under appreciated - ferret suicide bombers are the way to go.

[The one 8,511]

'rosspti' date='10 August 2010 - 09:13 PM' timestamp='1281471194' post='1668832']

Talking of "Old Methods" an old chap I met, who's father was a 'keeper, was telling me about old fashioned ways of getting rid of rats.... (not for the faint hearted....

 

One was to catch a rat and whilst giving it water to keep it alive, you must not feed it. Keep it to the point of starvation, near death, etc. then root out a rat's nest and find some babies which you then put in with the starving rat. The starving rat will then eat the babies, and it will then be a cannibal rat. Releasing your monster cannibal rat into a rat infested area will, apparently, soon clear out all the rats. The logic is that rats are very social, family oriented, animals and a nutter on the loose will soon shift them....?

 

The second, possibly even more grim approach was to catch a rat (put on some thick gloves) and then using a needle and thread sew its backside up so that it can't poo any more. Poor bugger!! If you then release the rat into an infested area, after not too long its squeeks of discomfort will soon clear out all the other rats as they will fear that there is some disease, etc.

 

Personally, I'd go for terriers or poison!!

 

Same here far to much effort involed in that way

[bert the fert 28]

Talking of "Old Methods" an old chap I met, who's father was a 'keeper, was telling me about old fashioned ways of getting rid of rats.... (not for the faint hearted....

 

One was to catch a rat and whilst giving it water to keep it alive, you must not feed it. Keep it to the point of starvation, near death, etc. then root out a rat's nest and find some babies which you then put in with the starving rat. The starving rat will then eat the babies, and it will then be a cannibal rat. Releasing your monster cannibal rat into a rat infested area will, apparently, soon clear out all the rats. The logic is that rats are very social, family oriented, animals and a nutter on the loose will soon shift them....?

 

The second, possibly even more grim approach was to catch a rat (put on some thick gloves) and then using a needle and thread sew its backside up so that it can't poo any more. Poor bugger!! If you then release the rat into an infested area, after not too long its squeeks of discomfort will soon clear out all the other rats as they will fear that there is some disease, etc.

 

Personally, I'd go for terriers or poison!!

 

 

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