yes, we have a rat. a pudgy, potato-munching, potentially-disease-carrying, black rat. confirming our suspicions, jody saw it scurry across the kitchen floor yesterday. so last night i went to home depot and bought two gigantic old school "victor" rat traps - the kind that will break your hand. before setting the first one, i decided to clear some room on the pantry floor so that i could put the rat trap up against a wall. as i'm shifting things around, that fat little joker jumped out, pushing a cardboard paper towel roll with him. it was either the roll or him, but something went over my bare foot and i turned and saw him scurry toward the corner where the oven meets the wall. i whispered a profanity and yelled like a pansy. steve came out and set one trap as i set the other. one in the pantry, one between the oven and the wall.
day 2
we set them both with american cheese anchored to the bait lever with peanut butter - so that he would have to toy with it to get the cheese, thus bringing on his own demise. however... this morning the bait was gone from the pantry trap (which was still set!) and the one by the oven was sprung but - no rat. upon inspection i noticed rat hairs and possibly a little bit of rat blood too. sick.
the pantry one is faulty...it goes off every time i try to set it...so i gave up on it after quite a few tries. i reset the other one and used some parmesan cheese stabbed onto the bait lever. he'll have to mess with it if he wants the cheese. of course, there's always the possiblity that he was mortally wounded last night and disappeared somewhere to die with dignity.
since steve works on vehicles for sherzinger pest control, he's going to bring home some glue traps. he says that if they get stuck on their underside, they're done for. but if only a leg gets stuck, they'll chew it off to get themselves free. sheesh. i hate that rat. this is war.
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i can just see you standing in the panrty, whispering profanity and yelling like a pansy! that was my favorite part of the story. made my day. :)
i hope yall catch him, and watch your feet, he could crawl over your foot while your sitting at the dinner table.
Tan
mostly SICK. but also kinda hilarious too. thanks for sharing of your adventures. merch man, i'll see you at the OtR show this weekend in Chicago.
Ryan, I have had much success by taking a slice of american cheese and rolling it around until I have a pretty good pasty ball and encapsulating the trigger mechanism with that. They have to tug at it pretty well to dislodge it. Usually setting off the trap in the process.
Good luck!
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