tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post2209969417918952641..comments2023-10-31T01:52:06.818+11:00Comments on Jorth: Ours isn't nearly as cute as Remy belowJorthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11263908192771903161noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-16085605830002944112007-09-26T10:41:00.000+10:002007-09-26T10:41:00.000+10:00Good to see another post! Those electrical thingos...Good to see another post! Those electrical thingos don't work. We have rats in the yard and outside laundry and I don't know how many miceees in the house. Everyone in the street has chooks and the houses are old.<BR/>We use elliott traps. Put nutella (works a dream) on some bread, put it in the trap and the creature goes in and the door swings shut. No squished or dead bodies. Then I make the man take the trap out and he plunges it into a bucket of water. The traps are easy to clean as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-968403730988402742007-09-20T22:07:00.000+10:002007-09-20T22:07:00.000+10:00HA! Cats....This will really make you shudder! One...HA! Cats....This will really make you shudder! One of our cats once left a huge (I mean really HUGE) one in our bed while we slept (Godfather style)!!! Anything is easy to cope with after that...Good luck, maybe he can cook?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-84473265572330336972007-09-20T19:24:00.000+10:002007-09-20T19:24:00.000+10:00eeewww - Do not use ratsak !!!! We did and one ate...eeewww - Do not use ratsak !!!! We did and one ate it and crawled under the house to die - eeewwww and we could smell throught the floor of teenage sons room (it took us a while admittedly as we thought it was him ). The advertising says they go away to die - true but not far enough away !!!!Jodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02924653077212971448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-69673512447566581452007-09-20T14:42:00.000+10:002007-09-20T14:42:00.000+10:00I have to agree with h&b above. We had a mouse (wh...I have to agree with h&b above. We had a mouse (which probably meant we had a family of meeces) and we tried traps with peanut butter, bread, apple and pumpkin seeds and the clever little thing just ate it and left. He must have been doing some matrix manoevre to avoid getting zapped. But anyway, after about a week of this mouse taunting us by dancing under the dining table while we were clearly in the next room my hubbie laid down some ratsack. Needless to say, we haven't seen him since.Linhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02890619849951879239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-26290280773760209532007-09-20T11:51:00.000+10:002007-09-20T11:51:00.000+10:00We had this problem only recenly, but with the sma...We had this problem only recenly, but with the smaller kind. I was happily toddling off to the toilet one day when the black darting into the linen closet MADE ME PEE MY PANTS and shriek ( embarrassing ).<BR/><BR/>I threw the cat in there and he wouldn't have a bar of it, the old fat lazy sod, so I called DH who said 'traps', and then I googled to see Peanut Butter was better than cheese. I felt really bad about this as I heard they slowly suffocate, rather than being snapped dead straight away, BUT, the little bugger(s) simply ate the PB off the traps - no snapping.<BR/><BR/>Then DH bought Ratsak, which made me REALLY feel bad, as apparently they die of dehydration and it eats all their inner organs or something. We used to hear them having a chomp in there of a morning :(<BR/><BR/>But at least I know don't have to leave the bathroom light on all night, so I can pee without worrying about stepping on a mouse ...<BR/><BR/>The chemicals work. Sorry :(LBAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05433555112198668513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-39524353746033634312007-09-20T09:57:00.000+10:002007-09-20T09:57:00.000+10:00I'm with you, rats and mice are yuck, that's why I...I'm with you, rats and mice are yuck, that's why I'm not overly fussed about the fact that my dog has killed to rats. He's so not a hunting dog but he sure did get those rats, and he was mighty proud of himself too. You want to do something before it breeds and you have a whole hoard of rats runnning around your place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-14100022122656399872007-09-18T21:26:00.000+10:002007-09-18T21:26:00.000+10:00I am so with you - spiders etc are fine but a litt...I am so with you - spiders etc are fine but a little mouse in my house and i am a squealing mess!!!<BR/>A rat though - and i think i would move out!!Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00152241012333999172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-78065003601203962122007-09-17T21:36:00.000+10:002007-09-17T21:36:00.000+10:00our cat is not much use, so cats are not a surefir...our cat is not much use, so cats are not a surefire remedy. G puts scrunched up alfoil in the holes and then rivets bits of metal over the top. Even so he discoverd the other day that a large rodent had eaten through a thick (and expensive, so I'm told) electrical lead. We just try not to think about it too much and dispose of the dead bodies as organically as possible. Sigh. We're veterans of the rodent invasion... I'm sensing deja vue here.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps we need a pied piper, but not one that takes away the children, just the rats and mice. And maybe relocates the possum in our roof.Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03229973177266678746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-28253702728398066502007-09-17T19:50:00.000+10:002007-09-17T19:50:00.000+10:00I'd be a big girl too, probably blubbing under the...I'd be a big girl too, probably blubbing under the covers! Based on no experience at all, would your local council have a rat trap they might lend to worthy citizens? But I think the cat (big and mean) is a good idea.Cosyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08883112444414013778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17673846.post-10543462888396243602007-09-17T16:12:00.000+10:002007-09-17T16:12:00.000+10:00LOL!The high frequenzy things don't work, so don't...LOL!<BR/>The high frequenzy things don't work, so don't waste your money on those... how about getting a cat or two?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com