Ihave a unwanted guest who is leaving the building ASAP! I am so freaked out I can't think straight!


Has anyone opperated a rat trap before?

CALL someone girl...don't handle that by yourself...yuck...

applekisses said:

I have to much money going out right now.... I am a cash and carry kind of girl!

SpisaRibb said:

Whats a girl to do?

applekisses said:

Yeah, I agree. Call animal control!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Try your local animal control number... no charge I don't think...

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

hit it with a stick? I'm scared for you

SpisaRibb said:

Me too! Why don't you come over here and help me!

coolcat said:

Ill look into that but basically I was told they would do what I am about to do and then come back for it.... and either way I am going to know about it.... and to any extent I can't sleep at night I am getting so wiggy... I blame the damn city in the first place... Orange county trash workers went on a 3 week strike..... and guess who came to dinner when they did?

get a cat.

Why did I move to the Burbs?????

you sure it's a rat?? rats are very destructive - like teeth marks and such


if you mean the spring loaded ones i've only used the mouse sized ones

set the bait on the platform
pull the spring back and the trip hook rests on the edge of the bait platform

but you have to watch your fingers
as when setting the trap you can set the spring off
and your thumb gets crunched

or you could set glue traps
i haven't been successful with them but others have


a rat?? really??

Stax said:

I could not stand the thought of a kitty chomping on disease ridden vermon!

I really think I will need a shrink when this is said and done....

My neighbour used to have mice. She phoned me upset and scared. I came over grabbed her broom and opened the cupboard door. It looked at me and I looked at it and I gave it a few wacks over its head. Then it was dead.

I asked her to get me a plastic bag and instead she gave me a zip lock bag


Next day I went and bought some mouse poison. That got rid of them.

emm said:

I caught the one coming in from the garage that way..... but he escaped it several times before finaly getting it.... It is climbing up and chewing on my pottery barn wood. It also climbed into the window box and ate half of my plant I brought back from Ireland that I was so proud of.
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where is it? the garage?

they say to set mouse traps perpendicular to the wall
where they are likely to run - keeping the bait side against the wall

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

ugh! disgusting. i hope you get rid of it soon

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Your city might have a rat division...ours does.

Here try this...

http://www.pestproducts.c..._traps.htm

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

I'm not talking about.....



I'm talking about.....

applekisses said:

Just for clarity: This isnt some gigantic sewer rat... I live in a hilly area to enjoy the peace and quiet that it provides 3o minutes outside the city proper..... What I have is wood rats they are far smaller but equally unwelcome.....

About once every other year I find a freak trying to interlope on my privacy....

last fall i had mice in my other house

opened the cupboard and saw the little fucker
i just closed the cupboard door and walked away squirming

bought a bunch of traps
caught two of them

the freaky part is when you hear the trap go off in the middle of the night
but i would never go check until the morning.

then i threw out everything that couldn't be bleached and scalded from the cupboard lol


to muse for dealing with a rat!!

Stax said:

emm said:

goodbye rat.

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

I thought you were talking about the creepy kind of rat (should also be relocated in a humane trap (but by the authorities ), imho)

Ohhh...Karen...look at how cute he is




Please let him stay
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applekisses said:

applekisses said:

he's gonna bite holes in your nylons!
[Edited 11/20/06 21:53pm]

SpisaRibb said:

He is not...he's just a lil guy