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.
Roots and Spokes 