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[jaxs mom]

I don't feel safe using bait. I don't want to chance them eating it and my cats catching them. 

[Eileen in Virginia]

@Financialgrl I agree that regular mousetraps would be more humane than the glue traps, but I didn’t feel sorry for those mice at the time. They were scruffy little buggers, not at all like the cute pet mice my son had when he was young. And forget about the rats! With all the new construction they’re doing near Nationals Stadium, I’m surprised the rats aren’t sitting next to the players in the dugout. I’m glad to be retired and not have to worry about our little furry coworkers anymore.

[Eileen in Virginia]

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@chiclet wrote:

Well we caught another one.  I changed my sheets yesterday and got up this morning and saw what looked like a couple of dark sunflower seeds.  I saw it on the carpet and realized it was mice poop in my bed.  Omg almost lost it.  I want to move.  We tried to call pest control but with the holiday most could not come soon  After vacuuming every inch and cleaning etc. went to get more traps and mice poisoning.  This is the first time in my life I have ever had anything like this.  My husband said we could go stay in a hotel until we could get pest control but that would be quite expensive. 

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@chiclet I would have freaked out - they would have heard me a block away. Have you been able to see where they’re entering your house? I read that stuffing steel wool into holes around pipes and other entry points helps. While it’s tempting to go to a hotel until the exterminators can come to your house, you’d probably have a hard time getting a reservation right now. Good luck! I hope you can get this resolved soon.

[Irshgrl31201]

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@mistriTsquirrel wrote:

Geez...

I'm sorry I went into your purse and ate your chocolate.  I'll buy you a new bag.

You didn't have to start a thread about it.

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OMG, I could not stop laughing.

[RedTop]

Our exterminator baits in the basement, and around our house every month when he sprays.   We also bait inside our woodpile.   We keep bait inside my brothers storage building year round, and are finally beginning to reduce the rat population that got started when he had chickens.   

[RedTop]

@chiclet,

Catch all your rodents yet?

[RainCityWoman]

Perhaps someone else has mentioned this, but wait till you have a rat come up your toilet. I got home from the island where my parents lived the night after Christmas. I was in my bedroom unpacking when I heard splashing across the hall in the bathroom. I went in there to see what was going on, and I bent over the toilet only to see water on the toilet seat and what looked like droppings in the bowl. I bent closer only to have a rat jumping at me from behind the toilet. I immediately went outside and got the neighbor's cat who always visited me. I shut him in the bathroom with the rat, and instead of going after the rat, he screamed and yelled to get out of there. My dad got on a ferry that night and came down to help me. He took a broom to the rat and opened the front door of my house. When the rat ran out of the bathroom, it disappeared, so we thought it had run outside. Dad left the next morning, and that rat terrorized me for a week, even after I got an exterminator, who baited my house and told me as soon as the rat ate the bait and drank water, he would start to die. My dad came down at the end of the week armed with rat traps since the rat ate the other bait and was still scurrying around my house at night. I decided to leave a big bowl of water out to make sure the rat drank this time. The next morning my dad and I were standing in the kitchen with our coffee and we looked down at the same time. There was the rat sitting there in front of us barely moving. My dad put something over him and took him to the garbage. Of course, I felt sorry for him then. But he really did nearly drive me crazy in that week's time. In fact I was afraid to even use the toilet for fear another one would come up the trap and bite my butt. LOL. The city came out and baited the sewer lines in my neighborhood after that. I live on a creek now, and rats are around all the time because of the setting. So far, no toilet rats, though.

[Lapdog]

@RainCityWoman  How awful!  I am not afraid of rats but, there is a limit!  

I am so happy it could not get out at the time but to be terrorized for a week. Oh my goodness.  That is just too much. 

I am glad you are ok and I am glad it is gone and such a wonderful story about your dad.

[RainCityWoman]

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@Lapdog wrote:

@RainCityWoman  How awful!  I am not afraid of rats but, there is a limit!  

I am so happy it could not get out at the time but to be terrorized for a week. Oh my goodness.  That is just too much. 

I am glad you are ok and I am glad it is gone and such a wonderful story about your dad.

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Thank you. My dad was the best, always my true hero. I miss him so much. He was, however, a little perturbed at me when I then felt sorry for the rat.  I do look back on the story and laugh about it now, but when it was happening, it was not at all funny. I would lie in bed with the door closed and listen to the rat scurrying around my house....and he was everywhere. I found droppings on the window sills, on top of my stove, in my cupboards...don't ask me how he got in there and even on top of the refrigerator.  It even pulled stuffing out of my hideabed and made a nest for the winter. For at least two years after that I kept a plexiglas piece on my toilet with the two lids on top of it for fear a rat would come up and get out while I was gone.