Rats and Mice

Rats and Mice

Many people are blissfully unaware that they have a rat supermarket in their back garden. If you have a poorly made compost pile, full of half decomposed food, you probably have rats as well. Dogs and cats are a good control, as are anticoagulant poisons, but the best control is to not leave any edible food in your garden. This means having a completely contained compost pile (I use a worm bin partly for this reason).

Image: Haruta Ovidiu, University of Oradea, Bugwood.org