Worrying noises coming from the loft...rodents!

[KungFooBob]

It's not rodents, it's shoggoths.

[Supermofo]

Fucking sounds like it

[Sunny]

Whatever is up there is sticking mainly to the facia board above my window. Little shit is even ignoring if I bang on the ceiling now, min ago was making a right racket chewing/pulling something.
Now have 10 traps, bait box and a tray of wheat poison I put up there Saturday morning. It making so much noise I've gone into the loft just to shut the fucker up. Nothings been touched of the bait/poison

If they've not touched the bait yet, it might well be rats.

Apparently rats don't like things being moved (there's a word for it, it'll come to me), so when you put stuff down you have to wait for them to get used to it before they'll go near it.

[Sunny]

If they've not touched the bait yet, it might well be rats.

Apparently rats don't like things being moved (there's a word for it, it'll come to me), so when you put stuff down you have to wait for them to get used to it before they'll go near it.

I gave up and googled: neophobic!

https://bpca.org.uk/news-and-blog/rat-b ... nt-control

'Rats are exploratory; however, at the same time, they are naturally neophobic (the fear and avoidance of new objects). Neophobia is a survival mechanism to protect from the new and unknown and often occurs when rats are presented with freshly placed rodenticide bait or bait box or monitoring devices.

The resulting neophobic response of the rat is to either ignore the bait completely until it feels confident that it poses no danger (which may be days or weeks) or to take a small taste to see if the bait has any negative effects before returning to feed more freely. Levels of rat neophobia will be lower in infestations which are exposed to regular disturbances and higher in infestations where disturbances are rare.'

[Supermofo]

Well that was massively unpleasant and completely unfruitful. Got right to the edge of the loft and pulled the insulation away covering myself in horrible shite and filmed what I could which was broadly nada. Didn't look like lots of droppings or anything. I did see a conker though I think.

Yes, I'm wondering if rats as I've heard the same thing. I put the poison wheat up there Saturday morning I think and had planned to leave it a week but the sheer fucking racket made me crack.

Doesn't look like they are damaging anything though (yet, fingers and toes crossed) so maybe I just need to keep wearing ear plugs and wait. Not sure what else I can do.

[Supermofo]

Had a closer listen and think they are above the bay window. Which I think is below the level of the facia so possibly why I couldn't see anything. I have heard them in the walls too so maybe they aren't hanging out in the loft. Dunno.

Earplugs. Sleep.

[Count Steer]

I put a trail camera in the loft (on 20 or 30 second video) to confirm what the scratching was. It also gives some idea of their routes so you can place the bait.

It's an idea to put something mouse-sized in the shot. First time I got footage it took a minute to go from rats! to phew, mice.