Indeed, my insurance didn’t payout for my rodents wiring 3 course meal! Lesson learnt the hard way on that one.
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That’s a royal pain. Would home contents insurance cover it I wonder?
Your lucky that’s all that happened. A neighbour of ours in the UK lost his Rhodesian Ridgeback, beautiful male dog to rat poison - dreadful! Wouldn’t dream of using rat or mouse poison anywhere.
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Absolutly correct; unless you specify on your insurance, rodent damage is not covered, even on fully comp insurance.
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Don’t know butI I’ll investigate and revert 
Well that’s an option I’d be interested in exploring.
…but you have to show due diligence… in preventing a recurrence of a problem. Basically, as always, they’ve got you by the nadgers! 
That’s a new word for me! I can guess what they are, but never heard it before. Wonder where it come’s from.
We had a very, very lucky escape with our pooch too. He ate something that resembled meat whilst out on a walk. About 30 minutes later he was almost completely paralysed. Fortunately he was lying next to his water bowl and instinctively drank and drank and drank. We took him to the vet immediately who ran tests and confirmed he’d been poisoned - undoubtedly by rat poison not done maliciously. The vet told us if he hadn’t drunk so much water so quickly in attempting to purge the poison himself he wouldn’t have survived.
Sorry to hear that, however, I can categorically tell you that if the dog was paralysed 30 minutes after ingesting a product, it would not have been [a recognised] ‘rat poison’. 95% of rodenticides are anticoagulants, which take several days to take effect. Pharmacutical companies spend millions on R&D before any product goes to market.
All anticoagulants have a Vitamin K1 antidote which all vets always have in stock. Did the vet do any tests on the thing that was eaten, note the quantity or check the LD50?
Unfortunately there are some nasty people out there. It’s easy to blame rodenticides.
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Sounds unfortunately like something some nasty person left for foxes.
Not sure exactly what the vet said as it was the missus who dealt with it (my French is good but she is a French native 
). I know there were different types of tests - poison, drugs, etc - but I don’t know the exact details of what the vet said other than it was poison and not drugs.
It could well have been intended for foxes… Hadn’t thought of that. Once we were assured that he would survive I didn’t pay much more attention to it.
I put up two boxes that (supposedly) emit high frequency sounds rongers don’t like and flash a bright light that’s also meant to upset them. I put the same boxes in the garage and the cave some years ago and they seem to have routed whatever furry things were leaving droppings.
From gonad. I suspect 
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Of course, pig latin!
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Gonads?
Anyway, here’s a link to another supplier of rodent repression equipment: SPA
PS Bah, beaten by @vero again!
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That’s certainty what it means - “where it comes from” is harder to pin down, the few hits just give the meaning and suggest a mid 20th century origin, otherwise it gets confused with either badger or the French verb nager.
Also “todger”.
The RatMat is a non lethal barrier, the feline solution recommended by yourself involves death, mutilation and quite often torture. They might look cute and cuddly, but they sometimes live a brutal life. 
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