Hi, I’m also having problems with a rat in my (cool) compost bins. We’ve had to get the Rat Man out and he’s put some bait in one of the bins (where I’ve just started a new heap) and a cage containing bait outside the other (contains compost still rotting down). He was concerned as we have a dog and so this is what he advised.
My question though is this: will the compost be contaminated, either by the poison or by the rat’s droppings or urine – does anyone know please? He said there could be an issue with diseases carried by rats, eg leptosporosis, and I wonder whether I’m going to have to throw away all my lovely compost. That would be a huge loss for me.