hungry rats

**** happens when being in remote areas, the invasive black rats like to eat everything....

Ooh, that's not nice!
Thanks for these otherwise amazing photos though!

Those rats are probably carrying plague to.

get a couple of boas and put one in each boot at night.

@Chlidonias, we have thought about that , but vitamin K is on it's way to kill them

how does vitamin K work? one of my clients dogs ate a block of rat poison last year and the vet put her on Vitamin K for 3 months to stop the anticoagulants in the poison taking effect. does it have the opposite effect on rats ?

@dean, try the wikipedia page on "warfarine", as I am not an expert in poisons... it should work very well against rodents.

dean said:

how does vitamin K work? one of my clients dogs ate a block of rat poison last year and the vet put her on Vitamin K for 3 months to stop the anticoagulants in the poison taking effect. does it have the opposite effect on rats ?

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I think lintworm means vitamin K antagonist, or anti-vitamin k. Vitamin k is important in the system which helps blood to clot. By removing / blocking vitamin k from this system, blood doesn't clot as well. This is the basis for some poisons and some medications (including warfarin). It's got a similar effect on many animals - warfarin was first discovered when cows which ate sweet clover started bleeding unexpectedly after small procedures.

funny, I upload all nice pictures of rarely seen species and the biggest discussion is about black rats

@devilfish, you are right

Thanks guys, reading the post I thought that the vitamin K was going to kill the rats, I knew how warfarin works, I was a bit confused with the K bit sorry for any further confusion
Lintworm I have commented on some of your fantastic photos too.