I live in a tiny hamlet, 1/2 dozen dwellings. An untidy neighbour regularly gets rats in their barn. I had 2 lovely cats. A couple of years ago, the tortie became very sick & died; it was awful nursing her, squirting water into her mouth every hour day & night. The vet thought she'd been poisoned, that she'd eaten a mouse that had eaten the poison. He'd thought she might pull through as she was a young cat & I was flushing her out with water every hour. Anyway, she did die & it was awful, just awful. (I had been diagnosed with breast cancer the previous week & the effect on us all was awful: the worst week of my life).
All the neighbours knew what had happened & of course nobody would ever dream of putting poison down.
Sooo, roll on 20 months & 1 neighbour was complaining about the untidy neighbour's barn & said, "On Monday, I shall be putting poison down, I'm fed up of seeing rats running out of it." I begged him not to, but he just went on about how rats are vermin & it's only what pest control would do. I haven't seen any rats, anywhere, but I'm so worried. I can't keep our girl in, she's used to running in the fields and hunting mice. I can't bear to think of her suffering like our other girl did. What can I do? Are people allowed to put poison down when they know that there are animals around?
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FrancesNiadova · 13/07/2014 14:45
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