so i'm sitting in the dining room finishing my lunch and reading the alchemist when i hear the trap in the kitchen snap. either there's a rat back there or i have once again faultily set up this trap. more noise. i walk into the kitchen, taking a chair with me, and perching on top of it, i can see a rodent writhing to free itself from the jaws of death. what do i do?!
jeremy! aha! jeremy is outside mowing the lawn so i ask him if he has any bright ideas for what to do with a rat caught in a trap but still alive. fortunately he takes on the gruesome task of donning gardening gloves and removing the creature from the kitchen. but by this time all movement has ceased. the trap has done what it was made to do. dead rat.
upon inspection however, as jeremy places it in a bag, i think to myself that it looks smaller than the one i saw last night. and by jody's description, smaller than the fatty she saw yesterday. this concerns me. either we both exagerrated it's size in our minds or there is a bigger fellow out there lurking in the corners of our house. i hope the former.
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Funny funny stuff...yucky too...I wrote about this myself this morning. It's at a new blog I created recently: http://communityhouse.blogspot.com/
I wish I'd seen you standing in the chair...I missed that because I was upstairs eating my lunch. Couldn't stand to sit anywhere near where that rat might appear!
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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