Gigantic rats roam free on fish display at Bangkok market

[Moonmoon]

Read from Thai News source that this incident happened at Huai Khwang Market. 

[madusa]

On 21/11/2016 at 4:52 PM, ratcatcher said:

If you too reside in the village" with the boys, I suggest you try some grilled rat. It's a bit like chicken and the rats are rice field rats and not Bangkok style sewer and garbage rats. Don't forget the som tam.

This remind of Thai construction workers in Singapore (about 25 years ago) died when they trapped and ate rats in the city area. They didn't know city rats are full of poison.

Later, also in Singapore some Thai construction workers were cooking their sticky rice in plastic tube also died when they consume them. They couldn't find bamboo in big city of Singapore, so they thought the plastic tubing would do just fine.

[madusa]

The reason why rat population is difficult to deal with is that they are quite intelligent animals.

I used to make wire mess cages with entrance where the rats can enter but cannot come out again because the entrance is a sort of long narrow wire mess tube with small ending so the rat  squeeze through but cannot do that in reverse(that is coming out from there).

When first used it you caught quite  a lot of rats but later no rat will go into the cage again even with nice foods inside the cage. They remember seeing their friends desperate cry for help trying to get out. They have good memory.

With rat poison is the same when they see other rats died they refuse to eat the poison baits you put out. First batch of rats died, there after they know and they can figure out it's poison.

That's why their population will increase very quickly if you don't deprive them of foods. Thais don't dispose their rubbish properly.

 

 

[BlindMagician]

More commonly known as politicians.

[oldcarguy]

since I was told to use raw fish as bait to catch rats , 

 

how do you catch them at a fish market ?    what bait would you use ?

 

and the rats around here do not like peanut butter........picky damn rats :)