RAT ATTACK!!!

There are rats in our walls and it’s making Natalie threaten to move out so it’s an all out blitz attack this weekend.

Here’s what I’ve tried already:

• Paying someone to come find all the holes in our house and close them off. That was last year. He must have missed a few even though he spent more than a full day on the job.
• Old fashioned rat traps in the attic and the basement. This is ongoing and I catch them from time to time.
• New electric rat traps that shock them when they go into the house to grab bait. No hits yet after three weeks.

Next up on my list:

• Trimming trees near the house that the vermin may be using to climb up and down.
• Searching for more holes that they may be using to get in and out.
• As much as I’m against it, setting up special rat poison houses that only rats can get into.

If this shit doesn’t work:

• Cutting a hole in the wall where they make their noises in the middle night and going after them commando-style.

So far they haven’t made it into the house (except for once when they found a way in under the kitchen sink and committed a bloody plum massacre all over the kitchen floor – I was able to find and patch that hole because they had tried unsuccessfully to drag a plum through the hole, leaving a bloody ring around the entrance.)

My daughters express their feelings about the coming rat battle.

Tags: attack, pests, rats