Garden guests

[moonwitch]

I'm so envious!

I regularly see foxes and hedgehogs in our shared large, but Sharn got a shock recently when she found a nest of rats in our shed!!!

[Mandart]

Very few animals in our garden, but we have had a rat problem, live too close to the fields and there are quite a few villagers complaining

[cambrensis]

Lovely hoglets, Sue!
When a boy I kept hedgehogs as pets - and bred them! We had the old drystone walls to our garden as did most of the neighbouring houses and other streets so there were plenty of snails for them. I'd supplement that diet with dogfood from time to time. (NO bread and milk please! They are carnivorous!)-
The young ones would be sold to people in local streets at half-a-crown a time. (For those too young to remember real money, half-a-crown was 12.5 pence...there were 8 in a pound. As the usual weekly wage for a working man was about £5 then from time to time there was a significant leap in the family budget.

One of the boars (his name was "Dizzy", so-named because he had arrived with a friend who had brought him downhill on a bike. "I rode slowly, so he would not get dizzy," he'd said) used to follow my mother along the garden path as she pegged out the washing, nipping at her heels. This was an indication the he wanted extra to eat!

Thanks, Sue, for bringing back those early days! Wonderful!

[moonwitch]

Very few animals in our garden, but we have had a rat problem, live too close to the fields and there are quite a few villagers complaining

We have had to call out the pest controllers as our shed and a bunch of other sheds back onto some dense wild ground which our local authority is supposed to keep away from the sheds. They don't bother though, so we might have to pay to have all the green stuff cut back again

[Mandart]

The village school playing field backs onto our garden and there's something like a 10 feet wide natural barrier where the rats congregate, despite getting onto the school there's never anything been done, so we suffer... Picture of our garden:

[moonwitch]

The village school playing field backs onto our garden and there's something like a 10 feet wide natural barrier where the rats congregate, despite getting onto the school there's never anything been done, so we suffer... Picture of our garden:

That stuff behind your fence looks very like the place behind our sheds. We have four regular sheds and 2 disability sheds in a row then a lot of bushes and stuff behind that row and then a field

[Mandart]

Yes, it's a case of balancing the good bits with the bad.... We've learned how to keep them away from the house end of the garden so they're not really disturbing us

[Policequilts]

Picture of our garden:

OH MY Mandart!
You have a tite rope in your yard.



LOL

[moonwitch]

Yes, it's a case of balancing the good bits with the bad.... We've learned how to keep them away from the house end of the garden so they're not really disturbing us

I wasn't happy that we had to send the contents of our shed to the tip because the rats had used the whole shed as their toilet.

I looked out an hour or so and one of my neighbours has got someone to bag up everything in her shed now, so it's not a minor inconvenience, nor can we fix this as all the residents in this block are either elderly or disabled.

They will only come back all the time the edge of the field behind us isn't maintained properly.

[Mandart]

I wasn't happy that we had to send the contents of our shed to the tip because the rats had used the whole shed as their toilet.

I looked out an hour or so and one of my neighbours has got someone to bag up everything in her shed now, so it's not a minor inconvenience, nor can we fix this as all the residents in this block are either elderly or disabled.

They will only come back all the time the edge of the field behind us isn't maintained properly.

I sympathise - the year before last was our worst year, where the table and chairs are we used to have a shed - they completely burrowed underneath it and we had to remove it - my stepson took his rifle upstairs and over a period of two months killed nearly 40 rats