Rats, maybe a solution

[Stedwomas]

I have a hedgehog feeding station house where i feed my hedgehogs but have an occasional problem with rats. I have trail camera monitoring the house and at other partes of the garden, I also have humane rat trap cages which i bait with peanut coated bread ,.rats have been entering the feeding house and seem to ignore the traps. However over the past couple of nights i have found a solution,I have two hairy cats and collected the fur and wedged it jjust inside the entrance to the feeding station. The rats came but did not enter , howvere the hedgehogs entered freely and took the food, and did not seem to mind the cat fur

[Stedwomas]

I have a youtube channel of 20 or so videos i took in my garden – if you search for ” gormless hedgehog” then this will link to one of them and you can click on my name for the others

[Echinoserious]

That’s a brilliant idea! Using cat fur as a hedgehog-friendly non-lethal rat deterrent. Cats don’t hunt hedgehogs, because they’re too prickly to be worth bothering with, so hedgehogs aren’t scared of cats at all, but one whiff of a cat’s scent and a rat will run a mile. I’d never have thought of that. You’re a genius. You’ve figured out something else cats are actually useful for, besides making humans extremely happy just by existing.

[Stedwomas]

if you go on youtube and search for “cat with lion cut” – include the quotes in the search – you can see my supplier

[Stedwomas]

or go on youtube and search for “steve konarski” and the video should come up

[Stedwomas]

or go on youtube and search for “steve konarski” and the video should come up

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