Working to rats

[huckelberry 114]

On 07/03/2021 at 19:37, gnipper said:

I'd rather risk a nip off a ferret thats been chewing pigeons than rats.

ive head loads of nips from ferrets that had just been chewing rats and i've also been bitten about 16x by rats themselves.(but caught about 600 rats bare handed) i always carry around some choorhexidrine to treath rat bites and such, and so far no problems. only with the ferrets i had a few absecces after a rat bite. i'm not that much afraid of rat infections after all that i've done. 

[huckelberry 114]

On 05/03/2021 at 19:49, Lee farrington said:

I've been asked a few times to do it, up till now I've not really been interested.  Over the last couple of weeks I've been thinking about.  May sound a silly question, but  has anyone fed the ferrets the rats 

does not sound silly to me, they catch their own food here. and eat rats most of the time. 

[huckelberry 114]

caught loads of them bare handed. filming them while catcing them. well that i managed only one time

[C.green 3,229]

That is sickly

[Bangersanmash 2,850]

36 minutes ago, C.green said:

That is sickly

FFS keeping rats in a freezer haha bad luck are long cowies 

[Bangersanmash 2,850]

On 05/03/2021 at 20:44, Guss33 said:

I have never feed my ferrets rats but from time to time I get mice in my garage so I close all the doors and let the ferrets go for them they love it and do often have a feed. But I am not keen on the rat side of things.  

My grandfather died from the disease's that comes from rats piss in 1976 fishing on our local lake that was covered in rats. A South African doctor had to come over to diagnose him and ended up having a closed casket made from led. Bad old things them rats to me and my family that's why I say there bad luck 

Edited March 12, 2021 by Bangersanmash

[Bangersanmash 2,850]

1 hour ago, baker boy said:

Weils disease ?

Yeah pal I never had the chance to meet him ment to been one of the hottest summer on record 1976 

[Bangersanmash 2,850]

1 hour ago, baker boy said:

Weils disease ?

It's crazy because my grandfather & great grandfather used to get rid of  rats on a local pig farm good few years they did that with the terriers an ferrets. It looks like the rats had the last laugh though pal. My grandfather was a big old lump of a man pro rugby league player for Bradford northern back in the day. Went from 16 17 stone to 8 9 stone in two weeks like having  cancer bed ridden he was. My old man's never been fishing since I do like love the hobby and hope my grandfather would approve

Edited March 12, 2021 by Bangersanmash

[eastcoast 4,118]

Wiels disease seems to be bit of lottery. You read about people dying from it who have only been rowing on a river or fishing as has been sadly mentioned here, yet some of us who have been in far more contact with rats and live with ratting dogs never get it. Not yet anyway but only catch the occasional one or two these days. 

I occasionally need to action things on sites when lads report seeing rats and carry out tool box talks on the dangers. Always feel a bit of an hypocrite as I have done and sometimes still do break all rules and advice that I give.

 

 

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

When I was on the mobile phone towers ,our gang had to  carry the green cards which was a heads up to a doctor if we had severe flu like symptoms .Don’t know if it’s still done that way .

[Daniel cain 45,249]

21 hours ago, foxdropper said:

When I was on the mobile phone towers ,our gang had to  carry the green cards which was a heads up to a doctor if we had severe flu like symptoms .Don’t know if it’s still done that way .

Rat cards still in use, we had to carry them when I was cable laying and fibre splicing

[Guss33 375]

Interesting video that is something I would not be doing. I would rather catch tiger snakes bare handed at least you know what will happen if you get bitten. 

[jigsaw 11,863]

On 12/03/2021 at 08:47, huckelberry said:

caught loads of them bare handed. filming them while catcing them. well that i managed only one time

Go talk to a professional,FFS there's something wrong with you lol....fair fucks your a braver man than I 

[SINDASOX 255]

Joseph Carter the mink man on youtube picks them up alive all the time on his ratting vids, and not only by the tail either, he grabs them out the holes by their head as well.

There's no f****n way i would.

SINDASOX

[WHWT 1,866]

Ratted for years caught my fair share now, tailed loads but no way catch them like that mink man crazy.

Pud