night time visitors
Discussion
Mr Gearchange said:
Whilst fishing I once woke up with a rat the size of a Yorkshire terrier sat on my chest whist I was zipped up in the bag.
Obviously I went bat-s
t and threw if off - but my tent was a dome type that zipped up from the bottom so although the door was mainly open the first 18" or so were zipped up.
I suspect that the rat just jumped in - but in the panic he couldn't get out again. So I was trapped in a tent, with a fking massive rat, in the dark. I was screaming - the rat was screeching - when cornered they go for your throat you know and their teeth can chew through concrete.
Ho st, this is what I was afraid of.
I forgot to say, fishing bivvy is what I am sleeping in, fishing, rather than camping, and a rat on my chest is not on..
I used to fish, with my camper parked by my fishing peg,luxury I know, but now I only have a LC now,and did not plan on sleeping in that.
Smashing a rat to pulp would not be an issue,being in the same area as a rat would..
In the end I killed it with a metal pole - but it wasn't a clean dispatch and I had to hose rat guts out of my sewn in groundsheet.
I'm sure that none of this will happen to you though. Sleep well
Obviously I went bat-s
t and threw if off - but my tent was a dome type that zipped up from the bottom so although the door was mainly open the first 18" or so were zipped up.I suspect that the rat just jumped in - but in the panic he couldn't get out again. So I was trapped in a tent, with a f
king massive rat, in the dark. I was screaming - the rat was screeching - when cornered they go for your throat you know and their teeth can chew through concrete.Ho s
t, this is what I was afraid of.I forgot to say, fishing bivvy is what I am sleeping in, fishing, rather than camping, and a rat on my chest is not on..
I used to fish, with my camper parked by my fishing peg,luxury I know, but now I only have a LC now,and did not plan on sleeping in that.
Smashing a rat to pulp would not be an issue,being in the same area as a rat would..
In the end I killed it with a metal pole - but it wasn't a clean dispatch and I had to hose rat guts out of my sewn in groundsheet.
I'm sure that none of this will happen to you though. Sleep well
AS am I 
Although the part about welsh chavs playing football..
That cannot be true, I thought we could not play football,singing,now if you said they kept you awake singing, I could believe that..
As to camping,here in Wales, it sounds dangerous, there has to be rats around a fishing lake.
I will have to sleep in the LC
Although the part about welsh chavs playing football..
That cannot be true, I thought we could not play football,singing,now if you said they kept you awake singing, I could believe that..
As to camping,here in Wales, it sounds dangerous, there has to be rats around a fishing lake.
I will have to sleep in the LC
Zelda Pinwheel said:
you need one of these!
No creepy crawlies, sand, snakes, or other unwanted nighttime visitors.
Not guaranteed 100% bear or lion proof.
Been there, done that.No creepy crawlies, sand, snakes, or other unwanted nighttime visitors.
Not guaranteed 100% bear or lion proof.
My camping is purely weekend fishing trips now,1 or 2 nights.
Defender way too agricultural,I got rid, and upgraded to a Land Cruiser
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