Any pest experts in the house?

That's probably the easiest, although beating with a spade is as
effective.

 

Yes, but all the reports I saw said "shredder".

 

"Clicky-ba turn in my hand, Lord."

 

so you dangel you scrotum infront of his face, when he tries to make off
with your nuts, you hit him over the head with your stick?

 

<snip useful stuff>

Hmm, thanks for the info. So far, I'm leaning more towards the
squirrel theory. We do have a lot of grey squirrels round here. Also,
the shit is scattered fairly uniformly at the far end of the loft, not
really laid in clusters. It's a pity my little UV lamp died.

The only way a rat could get up there would from the front of the
house (unless they can climb brickwork or plastic gutter pipes) or
between the walls (no obvious way into the loft space), whereas there
seem to be clear access points both front and to the rear under the
eaves.

 

It's a rat with a good PR department.

 

Worryingly, the exposed section had a lighting cable junction to one
of the upstairs lights. I gave it a cursory look but didn't really
examine it for chew marks.

Expect a 'my house just burned down' post in the near future.

 

Fucking commies.

 

I maybe wrong but as they are aliens, once you've trapped them, you
have to kill them, you cannot let them go, so the law says...
greys that is.... not the lovely red ones.

Aj

 

Oh, I prefer to let the JR on them, much more entertainment.

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Red or grey?

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oh rats can climb walls, obviously not smooth ones, but brick walls are a
piece of piss to them, i used to amaze people when i took one of my rats out
on my shoulder in summer, I'd plonk him on a bit of brick wall and he'd just
cling there as if he was velcroed to the bricks, which he was in effect, his
nails dug into the pores in the bricks, then he'd climb down, bound across
the pavement and up my trouser leg on the outside, negotiate the over hang
of my belly when going up my jumper, then back onto my shoulder.

A gutter pipe will be even easier, they push their backs against one side
and scuttle up it (mine do that to get up behind dressing tables, wardrobes
etc)

if you have cavity walls, then they can easily get up inside them, the one
that got in my house did that, clear evidence of where she exited by the
fluffy insulation that had come out the top like a mole hill, makes you
wonder how the **** they know they will pop out the other end.

Rats can jump quite a distance too, but they dont often climb trees and leap
from them, the can climb trees if they want to, they have short strong hairs
on their tail that face downwards, so if they wrap their tail round a
branch, it works like a one way ratchet type of thing, slides up but wont
let them slide down unless they lift their tail off the branch.

Buuuut, as you say, it may be squirrels, have you checked your water tank,
as that's the usual place to find a squirrel, most people find them when
it's body has shed all it's fur and blocked the outlet pipe tho,

 

Pikeys.

 

African or European?

 

Quite likely rats. It's very common for the bastards to get into loft
spaces.

 

Cue old joke about castrating camels using two bricks.
"Does it hurt?"
"Not unless you trap your thumbs between them."

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Ginge! we had that joke in Lozzo's magnet thread last month.

 

Did we? Probably didn't survive a 'mark all as read' purge.

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It's got a hazel nut in every bite.

 

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