It's rat carnage out there!!!

[cecilia1959]

I have a huge rat problem and I have a funny story too... We have been having tons of rain here in Mississippi and our yard flooded(about 10 inches in 24 hours). I waded thru the water and to the outside of my hen pen, as I went to open the door, the ground gave way to a massive rat tunnel that was underground outside of pen(that I didn't know was there). I sank up to over my knees and the DARLING RATS were running all over my legs because I that had invaded there home.

Well, I was screaming at the top of my lungs, as loud and I could scream...HELP HELP MOMMY... now I hate to tell you...I am a 51 year old women but I screamed for my mommy like a baby. I climbed out of the huge hole now in the ground. I can not figure out how to get rid of the rats without killing my other animals, I have rabbits, cats and dogs I am afraid will get a hold of.

 

[socks]

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Hahaha! Yikes!!!!!!! um...how huge is huge Cecilia? Maybe my husband's fear that there is some very long deep tunnel coming into our run is not as crazy as I thought (seriously, I didn't know rats tunneled. I thought that was a mole/vole thing)

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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It wouldn't have been a problem here. I would have had a heart attack at that very moment and left it all to the rats.

(We really do need a running away in terror smiley...)

 

[Baymule]

GirlintheCountry, I had to read this to DH. We both howled with laughter.

Biggest Loser on the boob tube took 2nd place to this thread. We can identify, rats invaded our HOUSE and we waged WAR

but finally had to resort to poison. DH complained about the smell of rotten rats, but I told him it was the smell of VICTORY!!

Ding dong the rats are dead!!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Well, the death toll stands at 19 tonight. There were two more lying still and eyeing me. I figure they will give it up tonight. I ain't touchin' them if their little eyes are still open. UGG! Of course, in an effort to thwart me, one of them crawled halfway through the chicken wire and then died.

Seriously?! What kind of animal crawls halfway through chickenwire and dies? It took forever to get that one free (it involved severel sticks and a great deal of cussing). Clearly I may be winning the war, but the rats have taken a few of the battles.

I am starting to smell the reek of dead rodent, so some apparently have crawled into inaccessable spots to expire. I guess it's better than them charging at me. Stay tuned for tomorrow's episode...

 

[Avienda]

wow, that made me laugh so hard I was crying and my hubby came all the way from the bedroom to see if I was ok...

 

[Carols Clucks]

I hate rats

I hate rats a LOT!!

Moms house is old, over 100 years. Dad was a landscape architect-he liked big fruit trees and vines........lots of trees and vines growing on an old house

My dad was a "collector" of old stuff, it all had a useful purpose some time.......He had the demo wood from the past 30-40 years sitting in piles in the "garden"

The chicken house was anything but rat proof and Mom would leave the lid up on the chicken food bin all night

The Elderly lady across the street had Alzheimer's but her kids did not want to put her in a home-or take her to their home, so they would buy her a roasted chicken 2x a week. She would put the chickens in her garden, well...tuck them in her hedge.

That my friends is is how you too can breed hundreds of rats!

Mom used to keep a calender where she tracked the number of rats caught and killed a day (in the house and outside) She stopped using poison after killing a cat.


I think I have spent a big part of the past 7-8 years cleaning up their lot and making sure that rats did NOT feel welcome! I have had them drop out of vines and bushes as I cut and trimmed them off the house and away from the chickens. One wood pile I stopped counting rats at 75 as I pulled the old wood out, a flashlight at night in the old coop was scary-all those eyes looking back at you. And eeewww they were even running in the trees.

I HATE rats!

The piles are gone, the old coop gone, new one super rat proof, no feed out, elderly neighbor passed and new people bought the house and trimmed the hedge.

But we still have a determined rat or two...............

My bf was helping with a crew of guys fixing a problem at her place, we had them for another 30-45 minutes and asked if they would help dig up a few bushes/tree stumps. The guys had made some...well guy comments about my rear while I was helping moving stuff (he understood their Spanish...lol)

Anyway, one had just made another comment quietly when a rat popped his head up from a void in the retaining wall. They guys were yelling about the rat-jumping all over the place as it ran around and then back down the void in the wall, I grabbed a chainlink fence post and pounded that rat to bits..................the crew of guys just stood there with their mouths open............

lol

 

[Carols Clucks]

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I want a bengal cat! We were just talking about them the other day. I had a tenant with one, it would hunt the ground squirrels here! Loved it.

Alas, moms elderly and also formerly feral cat seems to like rats and gophers as pets......but hates all other cats

 

[Frosty]

That my friends is is how you too can breed hundreds of rats!

I am actually surprised that we don't have more of them here... My cats must be very good at what they do. I live about a quarter of a mile up the road from a grain elevator. When the farmers start harvesting grain, it doesn't all fit in the elevators so they start piling it on the ground. And I'm talking HUGE piles that dwarf a semi truck. Some elevators put a tarp over it, some don't. Either way, rodents and deer are happy. I try not to dwell on it or I would never eat anything containing wheat again!​

 

[harmona1]

I ABSOLUTELY would have been screaming for my momma too! I have rats as pets, but I would have had a heart attack if I had a horde of the wild ones coming at me!!!!

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