My house wants its fields back

[worms]

:shock: :shock: :shock: If that comes over here I'll have a fit!

If it comes over here, nothing will fit!

 

[LadyArowana]

But is it you?

Yes it's me. I don't think it can be counted as brave if it isn't something that scares you, and snakes don't. I wouldn't want to get near a cobra but that's a personal safety issue. Cockroaches on the other hand make me scream and run away.

 

[Flyfisher]

I'm in a happy delusion my rats have gone, since rigging up my new electronic anti rat device. I am pretending the odd scuttling shape is just a bird.

Perhaps that's how the device works? The rats ignore it while it scrambles your brain so you think they've gone. :lol:

 

[LadyArowana]

Perhaps that's how the device works? The rats ignore it while it scrambles your brain so you think they've gone. :lol:

Or maybe it's like a cloaking device and it just makes the rats invisible.

 

[JoceAndChris]

:lol: Only just seen this.

Nah, I have to face the fact that whoever designed this seriously believing it works http://www.ppcsupplies.co.uk/rats/rat-repellent?gclid=CNfe-tjzr6ECFVOY2AodakWcDw has had their brain scrambled by it as FF suggests.

When shutting up the hen house at around 11 last night I realised as I closed the pop hole and jammed the chicken wire down into the rat hole that I was shut in with a great big rat. I chased it round the shed for a bit with I don't know what object in mind and finally let it out the pop hole again. It was really scared. The birds remained sound asleep through the whole thing!

The device is in the hen house. :roll:

 

[worms]

It was really scared. The device is in the hen house. :roll:

So it works, then!

 

[Flyfisher]

. . . I was shut in with a great big rat. I chased it round the shed for a bit with I don't know what object in mind and finally let it out the pop hole again. It was really scared.

Just as well. Imagine if it had stood its ground, or worse, chased you around the shed. :shock:

It sounds like time to tackle Chris's dislike of dogs and arm yourself with a something of a terrier persuasion.

 

[LadyArowana]

. . . I was shut in with a great big rat.

Rats get cuter as they get bigger, unlike sharks and insects :lol:

 

[Penners]

You reckon that evil looking beast is cute, eh? Well, I suppose to someone who wears a yellow snakeskin muffler (with the snake still inside), it might be.

To me, it just looks as though it's quietly planning its next foray into my garden. :evil:

Electronic "scare-away-the-rodents" devices - even if they work - completely miss the point. If you scare a rat away, or "humanely" trap it and release it elsewhere, the bloody thing just becomes someone else's problem.

The only way to control rodents is to take every possible opportunity to terminate them.

 

[LadyArowana]

You reckon that evil looking beast is cute, eh? Well, I suppose to someone who wears a yellow snakeskin muffler (with the snake still inside), it might be.

To me, it just looks as though it's quietly planning its next foray into my garden. :evil:

:lol: I do, but sadly you can't wear the yellow snakeskin muffler and the live rat headress at the same time.

On a slightly serious note I would put in a good word for them ( not the rats we get in the UK, but the Giant Pouch Rats that I snagged the picture of ), because they are used in de-mining ops. Their sense of smell allows them to detect the chemicals given off by the buried explosive, but they are not heavy enough to trigger the explosion. They are trained to indicate where a landmine is so it can be cleared. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1811203,00.html Not that I am suggesting ordanance concealed in your shrubbery of course !

 

[Penners]

they are not heavy enough to trigger the explosion.

Shame.

 

[LadyArowana]

they are not heavy enough to trigger the explosion.

Shame.

Yes, you will have to rely on Pennershound I'm afraid, but I'm sure there will be other ways to use the C4, someone is sure to have a concrete monstrosity that would benefit from an accident.

 

[JoceAndChris]

Do you like my plan that the council have requested? Would it make you think "Oh, this lady must have her deer!"

It's part of the form to detail what you want to do so that they can have a think about if you need planning permission or not. The main issue is whether a 6 foot fence may be erected alongside a public footpath. The proposed fence is marked in red.

 

[Flyfisher]

I don't see why the public footpath should be a problem for a 6-foot fence - it will only (presumably) be a wire mesh so it won't affect any views.

Let me know when you're taking orders for venison. :wink:

 

[philpjuk100]

Is that a 6 metre fence? thats nearly 20 ft!

 

[JoceAndChris]

Oh gosh, thanks for noticing my mistake Phil. I always get feet and metres muddled, but it is 6 feet for deer not 6 metres, unless you're planning on keeping the Giant Spotted Springbok of Draakensthloop, which I'm not. :wink:

Mmm venison pie.

 

[AMc]

Have you checked into keeping deer? I only mention it as the ones in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington were regularly fed with all sorts of odd stuff which I understand was bad for them. Given you have a public footpath you might want a double fence to keep them and the public an arm and jam donut apart.

I love your picture but wonder if an annotated version of the land registry / ordnance survey might look a bit more professional.

 

[Moo]

Mmm venison pie.

Pull the other one, Joce. Can you really see yourself eating one of those appealing Bambiesque creatures?
You know you'll give them all names to go with their delightful personalities, and will end up with a sort of retirement home for geriatric quadropeds.

 

[Feltwell]

Mmm venison pie.

Pull the other one, Joce. Can you really see yourself eating one of those appealing Bambiesque creatures?
You know you'll give them all names to go with their delightful personalities, and will end up with a sort of retirement home for geriatric quadropeds.

:lol:

I remember our neighbour breeding rabbits for meat when I was a kid. Rabbit pie day came, and his other half made it clear that if the rabbits got the chop, he was a single man. As he had been breeding them - he ended up with rather a lot of rabbits to find good homes for......

Actually I think he was secretely relieved!

 

[JoceAndChris]

Have you checked into keeping deer? I only mention it as the ones in Clissold Park, Stoke Newington were regularly fed with all sorts of odd stuff which I understand was bad for them. Given you have a public footpath you might want a double fence to keep them and the public an arm and jam donut apart.

I love your picture but wonder if an annotated version of the land registry / ordnance survey might look a bit more professional.

Thanks AMc, the issue of kids feeding the deer had occured to me. Locally deer are kept behind 6 feet fencing with an electric fence set back a bit from that - maybe a good idea. Plus I'd have to put up illustrated notices explaining what happens to deer fed on chocolate, etc. I'd enjoy that. And also my polygonal bay conveniently looks over the proposed deer park and it would quite possible to fling up the sash window and tell the bun throwers to desist.

Pull the other one, Joce. Can you really see yourself eating one of those appealing Bambiesque creatures?

Chris has his doubts too. He says before I can have deer I must have pigs, and before I can have pigs I have to swell my hen flock to 20, dispatching the cockerels along the way, and shoot, skin and eat 5 rabbits. I'm trying to negotiate the terms.