There is a rat in our garden

[Stagger]

Jack Russell under shed, end of problem.

[Yelsew]

Just burn the shed down, it worked for London.

[wheezing donkey]

No Trevor! A Border / Lakeland cross.

Jack Russell under shed, end of problem.

[Danbert Nocurry]

Ffs, Roland's back.
Staring me out from under the shed!

[Conor74]

The bucket rat trap.

Very simple, just a little board over a bucket half full of water, smear it with peanut butter, they'll run along it and bingo.

Google rat trap bucket, here is one rather elaborate model

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zinkwazi/4285949075/

[Conor74]

Here's another model using corn on the cob, same idea, unbalances, rat falls in.

And they love it, it's kinda like It's a Knockout for them...

http://journeytoforever.org/at_rattrap3.html

[noel]

If you live in London, you're never more than 6 feet from a rat. Fact!

It's the ones that must be hiding in or on the bubbles of the London Eye that I'm most impressed with.

[Alf]

Ffs, Roland's back.
Staring me out from under the shed!

Stick a picture of David Moyes on the side of the shed Danbert. Rats recognise a sinking ship when they see one and soon leave

[Splatcher]

Enough of the talking Danbert, it's time for action. What are you going to do about it?

A: Call in the council pest team
B: Get a terrier on the job
C: Get under the shed for a man to rat discussion
D: Open an urban safari park

Listed in increasing order of cool, of course.

[John Walker]

Under no circumstances allow yourself or family to walk barefoot ANYWHERE. Chap I used to work with (he was German) used to walk around his bungalow barefoot in the summer and got a small cut on the sole of one of them.
Four days later he was dead.
Rat urine on the floor got into the wound, infected with Lasser(sic) Fever, game over.

Mind you, that was abroad with private health care, I'm sure the NHS would have sorted it!

Ring the Council.