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Topic | Has your house ever had mice and rats? |
SpeedDemon20 11/08/19 7:11:47 PM #19: | Had a rat a few months ago. It was HUGE. I think it was around for like a month. I bought several types of traps that had good reviews. I did a little research (about how rats behave, how they get in, where they stay, where they go, etc.) and put traps in places where I had seen it and small openings I thought it might go, but they were all like escape routes. I left the traps there for a few weeks because I read rats were very cautious of new objects (one article said to place some fake traps that don't trigger to condition the rat into thinking it wa safe and then one day swapping that trap with a real one). The traps did nothing for a long time. IMAGERY WARNING: IT GETS A BIT GRAPHIC IF YOU HAVE A GOOD IMAGINATION. One night the rat PISSED ME OFF. I was going to the bathroom and it just ran right at me! The next day I rearranged the traps and placed one right where it always hung out (that's where I saw it run from several times). I was super tired that day too because I had stayed up being mad the night before. I crashed shortly after setting the traps. THEN LATER THAT NIGHT, I heard a bunch of clacking. I went to check and it was the rat! The trap was clamped down on its head, but its body was free to move and it was still alive. It was struggling to get out. It moved from the corner of the kitchen to the center, like 4 or 5 feet! It paused every once in a while to rest, but it would try again and the trap would clack against the floor each time it tried to break free. I placed a big box over it (the rat and the trap) and topped the box with another box of soup. Its freedom of movement was restricted, so the clacking finally stopped. I went back to bed and it died somewhere in the middle of the night. I disposed of the body in the morning. It was so gross. AND HUGE. --- http://orig14.deviantart.net/59f8/f/2009/047/4/9/rylai_crestfall_by_eyue.jpg Crystal Maiden... gal could break your heart in a thousand pieces. -Rucks ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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