The Rat Catcher needs paying?
- 4 May 2009 17:2320696I read with interest and indeed with horror in the papers this week (although for the life of me I cant seem to find it now) that we will have to pay the council if we have the need to call on their services for the rat catcher to come to our rescue. Now where we live we get a lot of rats that suddenly appear scurrying around the garden at about this time of year, so as I am terrified of them and cant bear to see them multiplying all over the garden whats to be done? Certainly cant pay the proposed charges of I think from memory something around the £40 mark, surely this should be covered by our council tax. Can anyone enlighten me on this.
- 4 May 2009 19:1520701Colette come and see me in the shop I will sort out your problem I will be in on Wednesday as I am day off tomorrow.A dog is just not for christmas save some for boxing day
- 4 May 2009 19:2520703If more direct action is required Barry WS knows of 2 forumites who if asked would be only to glad to shoot a few with
air rifles.beer the food of the gods - 4 May 2009 19:4020704We haven't got a problem as of yet this year (fingers crossed), as our moggie Oliver seems to be bringing more 'presents' for my ok (when we last had the problem, the ratman said that we didn't have rats, it was our neighbours but they were using our garden as a 'ratrun'). Why are people going to be charged for something that previously was a free service offered by the council. Strangely, I do know of the 2 forumites in question, 'who you gonna call? Rat-Busters!'
- Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
4 May 2009 20:1820712barryws,try getting a jack russell they are damm good rat catchers. - 4 May 2009 21:0820713The Labour group brought that up at DDC some people will not pay the £40,so the rat population will rise,plus who baites the sewers it used to be DDC,now you pay your ££'s and wait for the rats to return.If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
- 4 May 2009 21:1920714surely the sewers would be the the responsibility of southern water.
i am sure that we pay a sewerage charge to them(will have to check my bill though).
incidentally john, why are you not in purdah? - 4 May 2009 21:2120715BWS don't need a jack russel, he's got a Formula 1 formula 1.
Sorry private joke.
The rat population will explode.
Ian...grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet. - 5 May 2009 11:0420741Thanks Guys, you're a wealth of information, will check it all out now. See you tomorrow afternoon Humphy
- 7 May 2009 11:5320883Colette I see a letter in todays new pint size Mercury from Labour Leader Ben Bano about this very ratcatcher situation...so you are in harmony with Ben about the charge. Many people wont pay or cant pay, then what..the rats multiply in numbers unchecked...while the council slumber at a distant oasis insisting on their £41 before they act. This has surely been a miscalulation by the DDC. Ben is a member here...so lets be hearing from you Ben..wakey wakey!!
Personally I dont have a rats problem myself, living as I do in the dizzy heights of the ninth floor. Rats get vertigo before they make it up this high.email: dover7@msn.com - Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
7 May 2009 15:0620890our barryw could allways bore them to death with tory politics. - 7 May 2009 20:4520901PaulB Methinks your pigeons would sort out any rat problem before it had the chance to infest itself