People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:39 am
by Paphos Life
Rodent numbers are spiralling out of control in some areas and municipalities cannot control them because they lack funding, it was reported on Monday....
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:39 am
by Dominic
Our traps have been busy recently.
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:48 am
by trevnhil
Oh, gosh.. maybe it is time I got the rat trap cage out again.. I have seen that something is eating the Pomegranate fruits..
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 9:09 am
by PW in Polemi
My cats are pretty good at vermin control. One seems to specialise in mice, the younger one catches (and eats ) rats, the latest being dispatched last evening as the sun went down.
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 9:17 am
by Lincoln
How lucky we are. We have a few cats in our area and so keep the vermin down. So far this month we have found two dead rats. Thanks to the cats. We do not feed the cats but leave fresh water daily for them
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:27 am
by emgee
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Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 11:44 am
by WHL
Lincoln wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2019 9:17 am
How lucky we are. We have a few cats in our area and so keep the vermin down. So far this month we have found two dead rats. Thanks to the cats. We do not feed the cats but leave fresh water daily for them
If only more people did not leave food out for cats.
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Lincoln wrote: ↑Tue Aug 06, 2019 9:17 am
How lucky we are. We have a few cats in our area and so keep the vermin down. So far this month we have found two dead rats. Thanks to the cats. We do not feed the cats but leave fresh water daily for them
If onlthem don't understand that the y more people did not leave food out for cats.
That's right WHL ,cats are predatory animals,the kind hearted people who regularly feed then don't understand that they training them not to be,,predatory cos they don't have to be.Hence the increase in rodents.....Rocket science??
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:39 pm
by trevnhil
I put food out for one stray cat.. We have paid to have her Speyed and she is usually waiting at 6am each morning. I only put food down when she is actually there..
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 2:31 pm
by The Aquila
...and another good reason not to kill snakes.
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2019 10:21 pm
by Mrblobby
You could always train them , it could make you a star .
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 9:54 am
by Lincoln
Whilst enjoying my mug of filter coffee this morning, I sat watching a large Tree Rat. Hmm not nice. At least the tree is some distance away and we have our feral cats.
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 10:05 am
by LouiseCastricum
I also wish people would stop feeding feral cats. There is plenty of food around for them.
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 10:10 am
by trevnhil
We feed our stray cat once a day... So it just shows that some of us have different wishes..
I also believe that someone feeds stray cats up at Tala Monastery ... And a lady feeds stray cats in Paphos Old Town...
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 11:01 am
by Dominic
Trev I think your stray has kind of adopted you though. There is a difference between feeding a moggy that turns up on your doorstep and actively going out looking for them to feed.
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 1:35 pm
by daveg
More worried about two legged rats...plenty about!
Re: People urged to do their bit in keeping down rodent populations
Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2019 7:54 am
by Galini
daveg wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2019 1:35 pm
More worried about two legged rats...plenty about!
Now that is a post I can agree with - wholeheartedly !!
) rats, the latest being dispatched last evening as the sun went down.
