Anyone Up For A Bit Of Ratting?

[Waz 4,274]

Prebaited for a couple of days with a bit of carrot, then set the cages in place.

 

Female, fat as butter!

 

[Waz 4,274]

Just to keep it terrier related.. this bitch is tiny, & ive dug allsorts with her, started off rough but thanfully found a style that suited her.

 

[dillydog 8,477]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cork-public-asked-to-report-sightings-of-rat-like-coypu-450106.html

 

Some for the Irish boys to get started on

[neil cooney 10,416]

All nice and good to think you might have another species to hunt.

Years ago when an alien species tried to get a foothold the hunting / country man would be the one asked to sort the problem out.

But in this day and age when a foreign species appears it's usually followed by pen pushers with degrees in wildlife management to sort out the problem.

And you don't want them type on your doorstep.

[Dead Eyes 681]

All nice and good to think you might have another species to hunt.

Years ago when an alien species tried to get a foothold the hunting / country man would be the one asked to sort the problem out.

But in this day and age when a foreign species appears it's usually followed by pen pushers with degrees in wildlife management to sort out the problem.

And you don't want them type on your doorstep.

I know a man that's both. Good man to know

[Waz 4,274]

Doors down on the trap, no big rodent, just this little fella hiding under the tread plate. (both species weils carriers).

 

[Waz 4,274]

Do them big uns live by them selves, or in a family mate, an are there earths big places or just a tube??

 

They burrow into banks at water level, then upwards a bit so as to nest in the dry, a couple of entrances. If they are really untouched and hidden in brambles and no ones controlling them then entrances will appear on the top of the bank, due to erosion collapse etc. Dug a couple of metres for one once to a fox terrier - not funny. You can dig 1s and 2s and sometimes more. They are everywhere, streams lakes rivers.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Nice little vid that mate, something different. Cheers for posting