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I'm a Scots nightclub boss – I invented the perfect DIY potion that drives rats away
The gran has run one of Scotland's longest-running nightclubs for 30 years
JUST LIKE RAT I'm a Scots nightclub boss – I invented the perfect DIY potion that drives rats away
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A NIGHTCLUB boss claims to have invented a secret potion powerful enough to drive rodent infestations from homes — which she developed working at her spot the RATT club.
Mum of three Elizabeth Ferguson told how she blends seven every day ingredients in her kitchen and it is so effective it can drive entrenched colonies out in just days.
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Elizabeth Ferguson owner of Room at the top Club (RATT) in Bathgate
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Elizabeth Ferguson outside the famous nightspot
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The concoction can drive entrenched colonies out in just days
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She tested it in a pal's loft after exterminators struggled for seven months to clear out the critters.
Elizabeth — who also owns a pub named Elixir — first started mixing concoctions four decades ago to help with her second pregnancy when doctors warned giving birth again could kill her.
She told The Scottish Sun: 'My friend had pest control in over and over again to try shift the rats in her house.
'They tried poison and traps and everything else but nothing was working.
'I had mixed up wee things for her in the past and in desperation she asked if I had anything that would work.
'I used different herbs to make up a spray.
'The rats were gone in days.
'Even the exterminator who signed the house off put it down to the blend.'
Elizabeth and husband Billy opened nightclub Room At The Top — known to revellers as RATT — nearly 30 years ago and has brought some of the biggest names in music to Bathgate, West Lothian.
A manager there pleaded for her help after trying to shift a severe rodent infestation by conventional means failed.
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The gran-of-five says she spent 'a few days' thinking it over before devising her secret recipe which features a handful of ingredients 'everybody will have heard of' in the form of cold-pressed herbs and essential oils.
She made batches for two friends after they struggled to shift rodent infestations.
Pal Natalie Dunsmore, 26, was given a 100ml bottle and told to spray her loft with the mixture and soak cotton wool with it before blocking up any entrance points.
And when exterminators returned last month they found the rats were gone.
Bosses signed off on a report confirming there had been 'no sign' of the animals since she used the potion.
Natalie, of nearby Harthill, said: 'It started with mice in the loft but they ended up attracting rats.
'Exterminators were coming every week and told us all they could really do was put down poison and traps.
'They couldn't shift them after seven months.
'I turned to Elizabeth out of desperation more than anything and it's been amazing.
'I spritzed the loft a couple of times and they've not been back since.'
Elizabeth defied doctors who advised her to get an abortion while pregnant with her second son over fears she would not survive his birth.
She studied herbalism and aromatherapy, developing a mixture she named Pass which she credits for saving her life — claiming it can aid focus and relaxation and has helped students pass exams, driving tests and succeed at job interviews.
