05-05-2015, 02:06 AM
No it wasn't a water rat, like "Ratty" from Wind in the Willows". It was just an ordinary brown general kind of rat. Quite big. Yes they are a nuisance if they want to come in the house, and I did right to get it out again. And yes, they can transmit Weil's disease to humans, and leptospirosis to dogs. My motive was to make it very scared so it would not ever consider coming back.
I think it must have worked as no rat ever came inside again after that.
But I am so sorry I was so harsh with it. I don't actually dislike them. Live and let live. I'm in the countryside so I accept all the wildlife. I could have got it outside by laying a food trail probably and blocking off all other exits except the front door....never mind. It's in the past now.
I think it must have worked as no rat ever came inside again after that.
But I am so sorry I was so harsh with it. I don't actually dislike them. Live and let live. I'm in the countryside so I accept all the wildlife. I could have got it outside by laying a food trail probably and blocking off all other exits except the front door....never mind. It's in the past now.
