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There I was enjoying digging the late spuds, Romano and Picasso, and I started to notice a few nibbled spuds. Thought it must have been a squirrel or maybe a rat.

Pushed the fork into the ground to lift the next plant and reached down to pull a tuber from the ground only to find it strangely furry and with a long tail………..

He/she got thrown across the plot and I fell over backwards, not impressed!

Jerry

What was it Jerry? :o

Not nice, when that happened to me, at least it was the extremely sharp digging fork which  went through the rat!
The thought of actually touching one, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

When I was an ickle girl, went to go and get eggs from favourite hen, and found her dead on nest  :'(. Picked her up to bury her, and B***Y rat underneath! Had nightmares for years.... Lottie  ;D

My OH was turning over the compost heap with the fork when a rat popped up, run up the fork handle, up OH arm.  OH did a back flip and was never seen again......

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Quote from: Jessevieve on September 03, 2005, 21:09:38
What was it Jerry? :o

Ratus Ratus.

My least fav animal I have to admit.

Jerry

Ugh!! What a horrible experience Jerry.  Makes my skin crawl to think about it.   :) busy_lizzie   

Euuuggghhh, that's disgusting :o I'll be making sure I wash my veggies extra well in future, to think there could be rats crawling over them and weeing everywhere.

And remember rat urine carries leptospirosis (weils disease) - nasty! :o

I spent some time living in Fiji working on a reef conservation project and the straw hut we lived in had rats living in the roof. One night I kicked my feet out of the bottom on the mosquito net and one got in, it ran up the full length of my sleeping bag. I woke up when it got to my chest and opened my mouth to scream as it ran over my face. Its foot went in my mouth!!!!!  :o :o :'( :'( I slept on the beach for about a week!