Don't distress them!! The RSPCA wouldn't approve..... :blink:
Just go for.....entice / feed / snap (Traps sound kinder to me - quick and all over with)
No need to "bin"..... you can either add them to the compost heap (if you're not squeeeeamish) or have a nice little ceremony - dig a deep hole and place them respectfully in the bottom.... replace the soil carefully then jump up and down on the top and forget all about them. (PS Works without the jumpiing up and down too)
Poison is fine if confined safely (long drainage pipes perhaps) so only the rats can access it but it is slow (they can eat
a lot of it before the warfarin begins to cause widespread internal bleeding / hemorrhage and slow death).... not terribly nice. Also very costly in terms of £s
With traps it is easy to keep a count of the effectiveness of trapping, there's no dead ones laying about to be discovered unexpectedly or pong under shed floors (not that I have ever noticed this out in the open) and there's no chance that other animals will feed on dead bodies laying in the open so, in turn, suffer from effects of too much warfarin. (It is possible to get a build up of warfarin in the bodies of scavengers - often birds.... unfortunately not bl**dy pigeons!
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