The rats that live outside my front door...I noticed a new burrow hole. Closer to the front door. Like 2 feet from it. Before the nearest one was tucked away a little from the door, maybe 10 feet away behind a bush.

Now their front door is right beside mine. Fuckers.

Ok... one more horror story... MY apartment. Worse than my mom's house IMO.

Its and old building in Boston by the ocean.... the builiding is like 100 years old and I live in a construction zone.

So a few months ago late at night I heard lots of commotion in the cabinet where the pots were. A pot rolled out the cabinet... and there was squeaking.... it was a rat.

Not just any rat a fucking BOSTON rat! Ever see one of those?

Well the bitch chewed a hole through the wall the was 4 1/2 inches wide and was crying cause in was squeezing through a hole it could barely fit its big body through....

I opened the cabinet door (I live alone with my kids and yeah I was holding a cleaver in my hand... yes, I'm ghetto)

I saw this huge rat twice as big as a squirrel turn around and jump back into its hole and squeeze a shitball as big as a small prune as it forced itself back through that hole.

Hours later, I had my boyfriend drill in thick sheet metal 3 layers to cover my entire back cabinet area... never heard the rat since... no more grand poop balls or rat piss either.

If I see another, I'm out

paintedlady said:

Ok... one more horror story... MY apartment. Worse than my mom's house IMO.

Its and old building in Boston by the ocean.... the builiding is like 100 years old and I live in a construction zone.

So a few months ago late at night I heard lots of commotion in the cabinet where the pots were. A pot rolled out the cabinet... and there was squeaking.... it was a rat.

Not just any rat a fucking BOSTON rat! Ever see one of those?

Well the bitch chewed a hole through the wall the was 4 1/2 inches wide and was crying cause in was squeezing through a hole it could barely fit its big body through....

I opened the cabinet door (I live alone with my kids and yeah I was holding a cleaver in my hand... yes, I'm ghetto)

I saw this huge rat twice as big as a squirrel turn around and jump back into its hole and squeeze a shitball as big as a small prune as it forced itself back through that hole.

Hours later, I had my boyfriend drill in thick sheet metal 3 layers to cover my entire back cabinet area... never heard the rat since... no more grand poop balls or rat piss either.

If I see another, I'm out

Damn, that sucks. I dread the idea of that happening to me. Especially since I live on the first floor, they'll get in my house first. Not sure how I would go about combatting a rat if I had to. You're braver than me, I'd have probably just left the house and come back later.

FauxReal said:

paintedlady said:

Ok... one more horror story... MY apartment. Worse than my mom's house IMO.

Its and old building in Boston by the ocean.... the builiding is like 100 years old and I live in a construction zone.

So a few months ago late at night I heard lots of commotion in the cabinet where the pots were. A pot rolled out the cabinet... and there was squeaking.... it was a rat.

Not just any rat a fucking BOSTON rat! Ever see one of those?

Well the bitch chewed a hole through the wall the was 4 1/2 inches wide and was crying cause in was squeezing through a hole it could barely fit its big body through....

I opened the cabinet door (I live alone with my kids and yeah I was holding a cleaver in my hand... yes, I'm ghetto)

I saw this huge rat twice as big as a squirrel turn around and jump back into its hole and squeeze a shitball as big as a small prune as it forced itself back through that hole.

Hours later, I had my boyfriend drill in thick sheet metal 3 layers to cover my entire back cabinet area... never heard the rat since... no more grand poop balls or rat piss either.

If I see another, I'm out

Damn, that sucks. I dread the idea of that happening to me. Especially since I live on the first floor, they'll get in my house first. Not sure how I would go about combatting a rat if I had to. You're braver than me, I'd have probably just left the house and come back later.

I am on the 1st floor also...

I was so upset I was crying, but the only way to kill a rat is to bait the entance with poison and seal off and openings with metal.

Course grade steel wool or sheet metal works. Thank God those huge rats are shy and run from people. I would hate to see one backed in a corner facing me. They stink bad too. It smelled up my entrie kitchen and set off my allergies.

paintedlady said:

FauxReal said:

Damn, that sucks. I dread the idea of that happening to me. Especially since I live on the first floor, they'll get in my house first. Not sure how I would go about combatting a rat if I had to. You're braver than me, I'd have probably just left the house and come back later.

I am on the 1st floor also...

I was so upset I was crying, but the only way to kill a rat is to bait the entance with poison and seal off and openings with metal.

Course grade steel wool or sheet metal works. Thank God those huge rats are shy and run from people. I would hate to see one backed in a corner facing me. They stink bad too. It smelled up my entrie kitchen and set off my allergies.

That's good to hear, in a way, because it lets me know I'm not crazy. I swear every now and then I will walk out the front door and I can smell that they have been out.

paintedlady said:

All I will say is this....

My moms house had mice... so I noticed a little mouse at night running in and out the stove (burner) onto the counter.

So a friend had tons of snap traps and he gave them to us... over 30 traps. He told us to set them all at once. We did, all over the kitchen, because that one mouse was on the counter and you couldn't tell where it would go. So to be sure we set all 30 traps here and there, and baited all with bits of meat (bacon bits).

In the morning we caught the mouse.... and 28 others!

We thought we had one. We emptied the traps and reset them the next night.... all were full the next day.

So I was like and got an electronic-emitter shocker thingy to ward off mice.

Something interesting happened.... since my mom had wall-to-wall carpeting, static electricity was built up with those mouse zappers and electrocuted the mice.

We had a dog, and the mice were eating the Lamb&Rice dog food, so those mice were fed expensive dog food and had shiny coats and pretty brown fur and looked CLEAN.

We killed over 400 mice in ONE month with the zappers. Dead mice were EVERYWHERE :skincrawling: Especially in the basement.

YEAH...... they were getting in from the basement, and they were also eating bird seeds from the bird feeders. Now I know why red-tailed hawks nested in my mom's back yard. The hawks had tons of mice to eat.

I since moved out, and we knocked out the population.. although she still continues to do the pest control, but we thought we had ONE or two.... good luck.

x 1,000

Proof rats are assholes...

FauxReal said:

Proof rats are assholes...

No signs of the critter.

No new poop.

So either he's hiding in the walls, or died from the poison somewhere...hopefully not IN the walls!

DesireeNevermind said:

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They started out as 8 mice!!!!

Good lord

PurpleJedi said:

No signs of the critter.

No new poop.

So either he's hiding in the walls, or died from the poison somewhere...hopefully not IN the walls!

Seriously, that's where they almost always die - in the walls. People never think these things through until they have to deal with the smell of decaying animal in places they can't get to.

If it is dead, hope you do find the body because you don't want to deal with that grossness.

JustErin said:

PurpleJedi said:

No signs of the critter.

No new poop.

So either he's hiding in the walls, or died from the poison somewhere...hopefully not IN the walls!

Seriously, that's where they almost always die - in the walls. People never think these things through until they have to deal with the smell of decaying animal in places they can't get to.

If it is dead, hope you do find the body because you don't want to deal with that grossness.

If that critter did die in my walls, I will be hanging a few HUNDRED air freshners all over the house.

paintedlady said:

All I will say is this....

My moms house had mice... so I noticed a little mouse at night running in and out the stove (burner) onto the counter.

So a friend had tons of snap traps and he gave them to us... over 30 traps. He told us to set them all at once. We did, all over the kitchen, because that one mouse was on the counter and you couldn't tell where it would go. So to be sure we set all 30 traps here and there, and baited all with bits of meat (bacon bits).

In the morning we caught the mouse.... and 28 others!

We thought we had one. We emptied the traps and reset them the next night.... all were full the next day.

So I was like and got an electronic-emitter shocker thingy to ward off mice.

Something interesting happened.... since my mom had wall-to-wall carpeting, static electricity was built up with those mouse zappers and electrocuted the mice.

We had a dog, and the mice were eating the Lamb&Rice dog food, so those mice were fed expensive dog food and had shiny coats and pretty brown fur and looked CLEAN.

We killed over 400 mice in ONE month with the zappers. Dead mice were EVERYWHERE :skincrawling: Especially in the basement.

YEAH...... they were getting in from the basement, and they were also eating bird seeds from the bird feeders. Now I know why red-tailed hawks nested in my mom's back yard. The hawks had tons of mice to eat.

I since moved out, and we knocked out the population.. although she still continues to do the pest control, but we thought we had ONE or two.... good luck.

Dayum!!

Well, I believe it's over.

The damned thing finally fell victim to our traps.

It must've gotten sick from nibbling on one of the poison blocks b/c it st in the middle of the den last night and pretty much said; "come and get me."

My wife ushered it towards a corner where it got stuck on one of the glue traps.

Finally.

Now, so long as it hadn't given birth or anything, we should be in the clear.

had a mouse infestation at one of my jobs. why did one mouse get stuck in the glue trap and his mouse friend walked on him to get to the other side! that's cold!

PurpleJedi said:

Well, I believe it's over.

The damned thing finally fell victim to our traps.

It must've gotten sick from nibbling on one of the poison blocks b/c it st in the middle of the den last night and pretty much said; "come and get me."

My wife ushered it towards a corner where it got stuck on one of the glue traps.

Finally.

Now, so long as it hadn't given birth or anything, we should be in the clear.

a requiem for our fallen friends

XxAxX said:

PurpleJedi said:

Well, I believe it's over.

The damned thing finally fell victim to our traps.

It must've gotten sick from nibbling on one of the poison blocks b/c it st in the middle of the den last night and pretty much said; "come and get me."

My wife ushered it towards a corner where it got stuck on one of the glue traps.

Finally.

Now, so long as it hadn't given birth or anything, we should be in the clear.

a requiem for our fallen friends

KatSkrizzle said:

XxAxX said:

a requiem for our fallen friends

Have you tried electronic pest control?

ZombieKitten said:

PANDURITO said:

Women

SOME women

I crush their heads between 2 bricks

my kind of woman

BklynBabe said:

had a mouse infestation at one of my jobs. why did one mouse get stuck in the glue trap and his mouse friend walked on him to get to the other side! that's cold!

I once discovered a trap with nothing bu thair on it. This motherfucker ripped himself off the damn trap. I don't recall ever catching a half bald mouse either. He's probably still plotting revenge.

FauxReal said:

BklynBabe said:

had a mouse infestation at one of my jobs. why did one mouse get stuck in the glue trap and his mouse friend walked on him to get to the other side! that's cold!

I once discovered a trap with nothing bu thair on it. This motherfucker ripped himself off the damn trap. I don't recall ever catching a half bald mouse either. He's probably still plotting revenge.

2elijah said:

Have you tried electronic pest control?

I heard this is the way to go. One like this works better than cheap imitations.

I was cleaning up today, flush with happiness over our victory, and as I go into our attic-storage space, there's a dead mouse on one of the glue traps.

I'm praying that the 2 of them were IT. Any more of these critters pop up and there's going to be a big bonfire here.

clearly time to call in the pros

XxAxX said:

clearly time to call in the pros

ZombieKitten said:

PANDURITO said:

Women

SOME women

I crush their heads between 2 bricks

pfft My step dad had a feild day with the mice that was in our home out in the boondocks wed watch them run across the door way then my step dad would kill them with a BB gun aka target practice He'd hit them they'd flip then land on the floor then we(us kids) say" Do it again dad" as we waited with anticipation for another demon to run across waiting fo r its death sentence :evillaugh: