My pet hate is Rats ans Slugs...kill them on sight...nothing like seeing a big black Slug dissolve before your eyes when you pour salt on it...but Rats...Ooooo I hate them with a vengeance... i,m not too keen... on Hooded Crows either...my first encounter with a rat came about when i was 14...me and a mate were guddling for trout...and we were standing in a really nice little burn that we knew...had lots of trout..all around the 1lb mark,,,we were bare footed trousers rolled up to our knees...I put my hands under the bank feeling around for mr trout...they would sit there in the shade,I could,nt see him but i felt him..I slid my left hand over his head whilst i put my right on his tail...then grabbed and pulled him out....but it was no trout..it was a Rat...I let out such a yell, it could,ve awoken the dead,..I jumped out of the burn and fell head first into a patch of jaggy nettles......that was the last time I ever went guddling...for a trout I could,nt see....