Rats!

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Topic started by Morning Glory Dave (daven8)

I normally go through life with my feet in the clouds, and head firmly on the ground. It's more fun that way (although I like to swap ends occasionally). When I've got my feet and head on the ground at the same time, my arse sticks in the air. That can be fun too.

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daven8Mon 14/07/08 19:41

Does anyone have any experience with dealing with (ie killing) rats?

I've been in this groundfloor flat for 4 years now, and have just killed my 3rd rat.

There were rat-bait trays around when I moved in, but I didn't know what they were. Somehow I eventually realised that I had a rat and put poison down, and suffered the stench of a rotting rat under the floorboards for a couple of weeks. In summer. Lovely, NOT!

I remember very clearly how I knew that the next rat was around: I looked up from my PC one day and, four feet away from me on the living room carpet, there was a rat sitting watching TV!!! I think it was Eastenders, which would explain why the rat was more interested than I was. Anyway, I calmly told it that I'd killed it's mother, put out more rat poison, and suffered more stench under the floorboards.

I don't have any food around that could be attracting them. Everything's sealed beyond the reach of rodents. But it's a terraced house, and it's London, so the rats could be coming from anywhere...

Anyway, I started noticing signs again a while ago, which culminated in two sightings of a rat outside the kitchen door in broad daylight, and another two sightings as the rat leapt out of the top shelf of the cupboard under the kitchen sink, paused momentarily to stare at me, and then scarpered back under the cupboard. I'd happily poison the bastards again if they'd have the courtesy to decompose outside, but they deliberately rot under my living room. So I bought a rat trap about 2 weeks ago.

Since I bought the trap, the rat has been fed a great and varied diet. Seeds of Chance chocolate and raisin bar has been its fave. It likes taramosalata too, this rat. But it's always nicked the food without setting off the trap.

I bent the trigger part of the trap yesterday, to make it more sensitive. It worked! I came home after work today to find my (very cute...I wish I'd taken a photo) rat dead. Strangely, it wasn't in the trap: it was a few inches away from the trap, and looked unharmed...apart from being dead, of course (which is about as 'harmed' as you can get...but you know what I'm rambling on about).

But what now?

My ex-rat presumably has a family. Can I use the same trap again, or will his family 'smell a rat'? Do I need to keep a trap (or traps) permanently? How often should I change the bait? What bait works best for you?

Oh, and if you think you don't have rats, but you've ever woken up and thought something along the lines of "I don't remember finishing the last slice of pizza", then you probably do have rats.

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