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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Nov 8, 2016 19:29:00 GMT
Get a hawk!
LOL.
I had hoped that when I saw the title of this thread it was not literal.
I had a rat. Well I believe it was one. I saw it in the back of the house in the dog's food.. guess who gets feed inside now.
Then I saw one in the front of the house.
The next day I saw a hawk in the back yard. It was there for a four or five days. Never (EVER) saw a rat again.
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Post by breetheflea on Nov 8, 2016 19:29:16 GMT
The new traps are out there (I bought two ) but trying to shove them across the patio with a stick from inside the house set them off so I actually had to go outside for 15 seconds to set them again. I will now be going to take a 30 minute boiling hot shower. I am saving the dead rat for DH to deal with, I told him my list of demands for doing it myself and he didn't think a million dollars, a new car, and my other demands were reasonable...
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Nov 8, 2016 19:34:15 GMT
Post by breetheflea on Nov 8, 2016 19:34:15 GMT
I just have to ask: is this a little mouse or is it a rat? Neither are good, but there is a difference. It's definitely a rat, just from the size (about the size of a squirrel) and it has a rat looking icky tail.
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Nov 8, 2016 19:42:30 GMT
Post by mom on Nov 8, 2016 19:42:30 GMT
I just have to ask: is this a little mouse or is it a rat? Neither are good, but there is a difference. It's definitely a rat, just from the size (about the size of a squirrel) and it has a rat looking icky tail. Call an exterminator. If they are that big then you have a big problem.
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Post by breetheflea on Nov 8, 2016 20:09:04 GMT
While I was in the shower rat #2 bit the dust. Now DH can clean up two rats when he gets home.
I can't see the 3rd trap without going outside, but I don't think I want to.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:27:58 GMT
Post by buddysmom on Nov 8, 2016 20:27:58 GMT
Way long ago, there were indications of rats where I worked. I'm not sure what they were (droppings maybe??) but it was a small company with two guys that owned it. So on Friday afternoon they set traps inside the cabinets. Monday morning I was the first one in and the SMELL WAS TERRIBLE!!
It took a long time to get the smell out of there after they got rid of the dead rats.
And I kept "smelling" the dead rat smell for a long time after that.
It's one of those smells that you don't forget.
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Post by buddysmom on Nov 8, 2016 20:29:53 GMT
Actually from the title I thought maybe you were pregnant.
Like the CRAP title on the old board--anyone remember that?
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Nov 8, 2016 20:33:33 GMT
Post by breetheflea on Nov 8, 2016 20:33:33 GMT
Way long ago, there were indications of rats where I worked. I'm not sure what they were (droppings maybe??) but it was a small company with two guys that owned it. So on Friday afternoon they set traps inside the cabinets. Monday morning I was the first one in and the SMELL WAS TERRIBLE!! It took a long time to get the smell out of there after they got rid of the dead rats. And I kept "smelling" the dead rat smell for a long time after that. It's one of those smells that you don't forget. A friend had a mouse die in her car recently. She had to wait a week for the mechanic to fit her in, and they had to take her dash apart because of where the mouse died. Anyway she described what her car smelled like while there was a moldy dead mouse in there... it sounded horrid.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:36:02 GMT
Post by annabella on Nov 8, 2016 20:36:02 GMT
Maybe you can educate me about this. I'm a city gal and thought rats were urban dwellers who only came out at night to eat trash. Are you on a farm?
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Nov 8, 2016 20:39:54 GMT
Post by Monica* on Nov 8, 2016 20:39:54 GMT
Meanwhile DH is sending emails confused whether the one in the trap is dead, and I'm trying to explain there is a 2nd rat, and DH is not getting that he needs to come home and burn down the house for me. Oh my gosh I'm dying laughing. But sorry for your pesky problem!
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Post by tamaraann on Nov 8, 2016 20:43:35 GMT
Maybe you can educate me about this. I'm a city gal and thought rats were urban dwellers who only came out at night to eat trash. Are you on a farm? Farm girl here, and yes, rats most definitely do live in the country. Especially on farms, where feed for other animals is so plentiful. That's why barn cats are such a good idea.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:43:39 GMT
Post by mom on Nov 8, 2016 20:43:39 GMT
While I was in the shower rat #2 bit the dust. Now DH can clean up two rats when he gets home. I can't see the 3rd trap without going outside, but I don't think I want to. Oh I would have to have a peak.
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Nov 8, 2016 20:46:03 GMT
Post by breetheflea on Nov 8, 2016 20:46:03 GMT
Maybe you can educate me about this. I'm a city gal and thought rats were urban dwellers who only came out at night to eat trash. Are you on a farm? No farm. I live in the suburbs of a city of about 200,000.
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Post by gloryjoy on Nov 8, 2016 21:20:47 GMT
They like dog food too. In one of our houses we had a dirt crawlspace under the house. Somehow they got under there (dug a hole?) and were storing tons of dog food out of our dogs dish that we left out at night. We heard them early one morning under the kitchen floor.
Dh put rat poison in the crawl space, forget traps! Oh and no more dog dish outside anymore after that.
I'd be leaving it for my dh to handle too.
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Nov 9, 2016 14:14:52 GMT
Post by breetheflea on Nov 9, 2016 14:14:52 GMT
Rat UPDATE: we had three traps out last night and didn't catch anything. So either the existing rats have a peanut allergy or there were only two. Also DH came home and disposed of the dead bodies so I didn't have to. Go DH!
Some good news on this post election morning...
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Nov 9, 2016 14:28:20 GMT
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Post by anonrefugee on Nov 9, 2016 14:28:20 GMT
Thank you for the diversion !
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Post by brandnewrollerskates on Nov 9, 2016 15:31:29 GMT
If you have a patio, it's possible they are under the tiles. They can dig up to 36" down. We had some times along the edge of our garage and when we dug them up, the rats were under there. Our neighbors had patio tile on their shed floor. They dug around the shed edge and put metal sheeting so the rats could not dig in.
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Nov 9, 2016 15:41:40 GMT
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Post by milocat on Nov 9, 2016 15:41:40 GMT
{{Shudder}} Glad I live in a rat free province. I can't even imagine.
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Post by mcscrapper on Nov 9, 2016 16:24:00 GMT
I had rats once upon a time and I keep a pretty spiffy house. The problem is, rats like attics and walls and crawlspaces that they can sneak into and keep warm - on attic insulation, warm water pipes, etc. Yuck. I can blame it on the fact that i live close to a creek and the neighborhood concrete water drain. At the time, a house behind me was remodeled and their old storage bldg was torn down, too. It all started with hearing the scratching in the walls. Then I could hear what sounded like little whines and screaming. I could NOT deal. I was living here with just my young dd at the time so we called in reinforcements. Daddy to the rescue. He put some bait in my crawl space and in the store room where I was keeping the dog food. Within a few days we had killed at least 5 rats. BLECH!! Things seemed to settle down and about 6 months later I started smelling something pretty awful. It seemed to be coming from dd's room and I thought she had left she food or something in there. My housekeeper came over and said that something must have died in the walls. GREAT. How am I supposed to get a dead rat out of my walls? Called my step-dad over because he was in town that afternoon. He graciously came over to use his PD investigation training to seek the source of the vile smell. In the hallway between my room and dd's sits the attic access with pull-down steps. I'm standing a few feet away from the attic when Earl says he thinks the smell may be from up there. He pulls down the steps and a large, dead rat full of maggots falls out of that attic opening onto my gleaming hardwood floors with a THUD. All I remember from there is running out of my house and halfway down the driveway screaming at the top of my lungs! Yes, I acted like a maniac and scared my poor neighbor half to death.
Luckily for me, my step dad was a farm boy growing up and was used to dealing with this nastiness. I, on the other hand, am not.
I was mortified and can't believe I'm telling you this story! Rats freak me the heck out and, to this day, I do not go up in that attic. I've even had someone come over and clean and paint over the crime scene in the attic but I get some serious heebs if I have to venture up there.
Needless to say, I had the "pros" come out and rat-proof my house after that. They cut all of the branches that were touching the house and roof, they reinforced my crawlspace vents and it appears my Ratopia has died off.
Yuck!
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Post by gloryjoy on Nov 9, 2016 16:33:27 GMT
mcscrapper that is the stuff nightmares are made of !
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Nov 9, 2016 16:42:16 GMT
Post by mcscrapper on Nov 9, 2016 16:42:16 GMT
mcscrapper that is the stuff nightmares are made of ! Truly! We can kind of laugh about it now but i found myself walking around that attic access with great trepidation for about a month after the "rat incident of 2010." ::shudder:: SaveSave
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