Trudie Fuller explained -" Well the poison used takes 7 days to work during which time the rat bleeds to death and is in some degree of pain I understand. It's not an instant poison so a very horrid way to die. "While that's very true the fact remains that left totheir own devices, rats like all wild animals willeither catch some fatal disease or eventually get old and gradually starve to death.A process that can't be very pleasant either.What's certain is that none of them are going to die in a hospital bed, doped up with painkillers suurounded by friends and family.Its much the same with humane mouse traps, of which I've been an advocate in the past. The problem being that releasing a house mouse which is used to living in buildings into an open space such as behind a tree in a localpark totally disorientates it and leaves it in a position, on its own where its no longer able to shelter or feed itself. Probably ending up dead within days.I'm not saying there's any real solution to thisbut all solutions are equally unsatisfactory from one point of view or another.michael adams...
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