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Vermin control around local farm.

https://youtu.be/j6EcNveQvzQ?si=YqKJlrnmU0LNavhW

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Rattingman
Sunday, September 24th, 2023

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Rattingman
Sunday, September 24th, 2023

Is Weils disease a problem?
They look like pets, is there any risk of the dogs getting infected or an owner after being "thanked" for the days outing via a friendly slobber over accessible skin?

kwackers
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

Not something I've ever encountered or come across or heard about.

Rattingman
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

It used to be tagged as a horror story after the slips trips & falls thing. It got a mention at every site induction on water treatment plants I worked on all over Europe.


Carried by rats it's very virulent and leaves One severely impaired if not dead. It can be transferred to other animals easily apparently.

It is a serious thing if you catch it, but health and safety is often overdone in some areas to the point where you cannot fully categorise risks.

Trying to operate a computer touch screen wearing gloves was not an uncommon "safety" requirement on UK sites, so faced with that approach to risk it is difficult to gauge the actual risk levels as far as disease and none intuitive things present.

kwackers
Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

It wouldn't be a very common thing to get, but very serious if you were unlucky to do so. More chance of catching it from swimming in water, that has a lot of rats on it, than from actually handling dead rats.

nedzer
Wednesday, September 27th, 2023

Thanks!
I dislike handling them anyway. I don't know if it's a natural thing, but handling dead anything that is still in the form it was when functioning is repulsive to me and no doubt appreciated by one or two of the remaining Khaki Campbells.

I did recall a few induction stories though about fishermen on canal banks being stricken. Smoking and handling terminal tackle was cited as the reason for transfer due to soggy fingers leading to wet cigarette ends.

Drinking bottled beer in a Birmingham pub was blamed also, a punter who drank out of the bottle was no doubt pleased to find out after a long illness that rats running across the top of beer crates in the cellar constantly urinate and the urine "wicked" under the crown cork edge leaving the top of the bottle a little harbour of disease.

I suppose the risk is low here in the SW of Ireland, any urine or infected water would be diluted and washed away in a short space of time over winter then:-)

kwackers
Thursday, September 28th, 2023

A good few got it over the years I never heard of it out right killing but left people very sick,livestock can get it from feed that rats have access to horses in perticular and young pups.

paddycrawford
Thursday, September 28th, 2023

I was in hospital a good few years ago for minor surgery and the man next to me was recovering from it.He was clean cleaning out his shed and no gloves on.He cut his hand and carried on cleaning up before he dressed the wound.A few days he was really bad and joking with his wife he might have wells.When he was admitted to hospital, only then he found out he had wells
That morning another man had been discharged after recovering from wells. He got it from a can of coke he had left on his shelf in his garage.
I do believe it is more common than people think.

roostercroweburn
Thursday, October 12th, 2023

Ive a terrier recovering from it here very nearly killed the poor bugger.

paddycrawford
Thursday, October 12th, 2023

Funny how dogs differ. My terrier been bit hundred times and had his face into rat nests and digging up burrows never a bother and my lurchers neeeds anti biotic regularly after getting nipped.

Rattingman
Sunday, October 15th, 2023

The rats were pissing in my dogs feed as best I can make out hes a slow eather,all lurchers are softer than terriers.

paddycrawford
Monday, October 16th, 2023


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