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Rats - barbara (24th May 2007 - 14:55:22) I am not the only person I am sure who has noticed more and more rats around the local area. Perhaps if anyone has a spare truck we could collect as many dead bodies as we can and leave them on theoffice doorstep of Penns place with a notice saying please recycle! I hope it would be a hot sunny weekend to welcome the staff to work on Monday morning. Apparently the pest control service is free, but poisoning is what they recommend, which can affect our pets and birds if they decide to peck or eat a dead rat.

Re: Rats - phil (24th May 2007 - 16:04:21) i assume the rats are sainsburys fault aswell!!

Re: Rats - Mark (24th May 2007 - 16:39:40) I do not think you can blame good old Sainsburys for the rats, in fact you should blame the council for making rubbish collection every 2 weeks, Great to know in this hot weather you have rotting smelly rubbish in your garden atracting flies and yes rats. Before we know it we will have another BLACK DEATH OH A WELL KNOW FACT Where ever you are you are always 3 foot away from a rat

Re: Rats - Steve Read (24th May 2007 - 19:02:22) Yeah we know that, some have four legs but some have two!

Re: Rats - Candyfloss (24th May 2007 - 20:31:56) Steve You beat me to it!!

Re: Rats - Barbara (25th May 2007 - 13:32:31) I believe there is going to be a TV programme on Channel 4 it may have already aired about this problem. Headley is overrun with rats and Liphook will be next Perhaps mole at EHDC could become the Pied Piper and lead them into Petersfield!

Re: Rats - Sue W (25th May 2007 - 16:43:59) I think Liphook has had a problem with rats and mice for a while. with the amount of poison we sell. The mild winters we are having is increasing the number of litters (if thats the right word), as breeding never seems to stop. I have often wondered if they are not perhaps the reason a number of bunnies have met an awful end, as one customer from the Portsmouth Road, saw some in her neighbours garden, shortly followed by a fox. I am a little perplexed why the collection of rubbish fortnightly, is causing extra rats, all my rubbish is enclosed in the bin, if your bins are overflowing, perhaps condencing your rubbish will give you a bit more room, or if you are that concerned, take it to the nearest re-cycling centre. I do think that it is time for Liphook to have their own. How about it Penns mole? Sue

Re: Rats - Mark (29th May 2007 - 15:59:41) I do not think I should waste my time and petrol driving to the local dumps when I pay the council a stupid amount in council tax each month for them to collect my rubbish as part of the service. In the end if they had not changed it to every 2 weeks then it would not be over flowing in my bin would it. Another reason as well on why the rats are growing in numbers and you are selling a lot of rat poison Sue is what we call the Super RAT Nature always finds a way, and what is happening is we are putting down the poison so much the RATS have become imune to it. I found this the case in my back garden so ended up sitting there one night with a lump of cat food by where they were coming in and popped them off with the air riffle, not coming back now are they :-).

Re: Rats - gen (29th May 2007 - 22:29:13) Haven't seen any yet - but there are a lot of cooked food outlets in Station Road, could have something to do with it. Rats have such a good sense of smell. I wonder if there are any cockroaches?

Re: Rats - Sue W (30th May 2007 - 08:26:07) Gen, What are you saying? All the food outlets are dirty? I for one know that with the amount of cleaning the Village Takeaway, Gurkha and the cafe do - they are probably cleaner than all domestic homes. The Gurkhas are ALWAYS cleaning out their bin - so no worries there. Most 'food' is discarded by people who can't place it in bins properly. If you haven't seen any in Station Road, then there is no worry - but remember you are only ever 3ft away from a Rat!!

Re: Rats - gen (30th May 2007 - 15:01:54) You are putting words into my mouth that I didn't say and most carefully didn't intend to imply. I have never seen any discarded rubbish around, and I haven't seen any rats either. Obviously some people have seen them, or this topic wouldn't have appeared in the forum. But rats are attracted by food and we have a lot of outlets in Station Road and they have an incredible sense of smell.

Re: Rats - Sue W (30th May 2007 - 19:51:28) Gen, I didn't put words into your mouth at all. Both sentences ended in a question mark - because I wasn't too sure what you meant. Which is what the question was. I just laid to rest any possible connection with cockroaches, which are directly linked in some minds to unclean properties, but if you live in some countries they are commonplace.

Re: Rats - Candyfloss (30th May 2007 - 21:47:13) Gen, I am sure there are far more domestic homes, with cooking smells in Station Road? Unfair to pick out a few.

Re: Rats - gen (30th May 2007 - 22:53:39) I'm not picking out anyone in particular, just a simple query wondering if cooked food outlets might be more likely to attract the little varmints purely because of the quantity of constant food. Sorry I spoke!

Re: Rats - S (31st May 2007 - 09:27:50) Gen Ever thought about the rail-way line?. Close to the backs of the houses in the lower part of Portsmouth Road.

Re: Rats - S THE REAL S (31st May 2007 - 10:54:51) Oi Imposter stop posting under my name or I'll have to get ur IP interrogated. :-)

Re: Rats - purplecurly (31st May 2007 - 20:53:35) I have to say that although a lot of people have been bemoaning the by-weekly collections of refuse and recyclables’, I applaud Hampshire’s’ forward thinking in this regard. Everyone is aware of the delicate situation our planet has been placed in by the way we have treated it in the past, everyone seems to agree that something needs to be done to reverse this cycle and educate the young etc… but when it comes down to ACTUALLY doing something themselves……moan, moan, moan!!!! Our landfill sites are overflowing. It is a disgrace. It is up to us to do something about it and despite being asked to do so voluntarily the vast majority just carried on with their wasteful way of living and did nothing. It is quite right and proper for Hampshire to instigate a system that forces people to recycle. We (my family) have lived this way for many many years and have NEVER had a problem with smelly bins or too much rubbish. If you use the system as you should, there should be very little that actually goes in the regular bin. What is left after material, paper, tins, cans, bottles, glass, cardboard and cartons are taken out I ask you? – a small amount of plastic bottle tops, foil wrappings and plastic wrap stuff. I would also point out that the bin is your property and it is up to you to keep it clean and odour free. If you have put an old supermarket bag (which I might point out is not biodegradable and will last hundreds of years in landfill so therefore not a good option) which is full of air holes, then it is not surprising that it leaks! Of course it will! However, if you are putting proper waste in the bin, then there shouldn’t be anything to leak out. Food wastes should be composted, and if you are putting animal wastes such as bones then it is up to you to wrap them securely so the smell does not escape and wild creatures will then not injure themselves trying to get at it. We owe a debt to this planet. Cleaning out a bin with a bit of fairy liquid every once in a while is not exactly a big deal in comparison the problem we face in this sector. The last thing we need is a bloody great incinerator, and that’s what will happen if people continue to object to such minimal changes in their outdated ways of thinking.

Re: Rats - Sue W (31st May 2007 - 21:09:29) Purplecurly How right you are. On the subject of bins being cleaned, where we used to live, there was a kerbside cleaning company that charged £3 per clean and I know they operated as close as Bordon - usually done just after collection. The most needed was once a month, so an excellent service. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be such a service here - unless anyone knows otherwise? I sometimes feel the 'sad' one, when we are having a few cans at our caravan, I make people place them, Squashed up into a black bag, and when I take the dog for a walk, drop them off at the local collection point. Not too much problem at all.

Re: Rats - Sue W (31st May 2007 - 21:15:33) Gen, Your rats issue. Noticed today through the now exposed 'back' of the Fairfield factory, someone has been fly tipping. As fridge/freezer was left a while ago, along with some shopping trollies, but now there are a number of black bin bags. Someone should be made aware? Also the back door has a rather large hole in (enough for a person to crawl through). Perhaps something nasty is going on in there?

Re: Rats - gen (1st Jun 2007 - 16:19:46) It was Barbara's rats issue, really. I only put my twopennorth in because it seemed a shame not to keep it on the front page for a bit. I wonder what's in the bin bags? Have you looked? Sounds horrid, aren't people mean, when there are a couple of easily reached tips within a reasonable distance.

Re: Rats - Sue W (4th Jun 2007 - 20:39:46) Gen, This rat subject - in Station Road. A worker from the station came into my shop today and made a remark - unknowing this situation, that since Somerfields have left there are less rats around the station. He poisioned some recently, and found them on the platform towards the end. Perhaps the poster who suggested the rail-way line could be right. They are moving down the line to find another source of food.

Re: Rats - gen (4th Jun 2007 - 22:54:06) I have certainly seen them when I've been waiting for underground trains in London - dark and warm and probably lots of discarded bits and pieces - horrid!

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