Robert Rafferty

Describe, how big are these rats?

So basically the one that was caught in 2019, I would say it was extremely large, the size of a ruler, with a tail.

That's the tail included.

Yeah, now that's tail included along with the, now the rats now that came in now seem to be more, they're bulkier on the top.

I know the difference between now because I've done a lot of research on them.

They're bulkier at the top and they have a thinner tail, but they're very bulky.

But the one that we caught underneath the kitchen was a grey rat.

So it was big.

I sent the photographs in to yourselves to have a look at it, but determined the size of the rat was big.

It was about, I'd say, maybe about six and a half inches.

Well, put it this way, and I'm going to be funny about this.

If I was out to make friends with that rat now, I'd put a saddle on its back and bring him to Cheltenham next year.

You have to be jovial about this.

You have to make it work for a bad situation.

The daughter is back now, but we've had the child's grandmother living with us, but we had to move her out of the house because she has cancer.

So we had to move her out.

We had to move her into accommodation.

And that's where most of our money was spent on putting her there.

So we were absolutely skint because we had to throw out all our field.

We had to throw three to four hundred yards worth of field.