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clambo
2024 Aug 8, 6:19pm
I have an anecdote.
I sometimes brought visitors to the Ocean Park Motel in San Francisco, out near the beach.
It's not far from the zoo.
Anyway, one night my mother was visiting and she woke up to a rat jumping up to the window.
Evidently it was open for a while and then closed before I rented the room. Ratso was trying to leave the way he came in.
From then on we called the place "The Rat Motel."
Another friend from Santa Cruz would stay up there too from time to time.
"So, how was your stay at the rat motel?"
Prince Harry rides again.
I sometimes brought visitors to the Ocean Park Motel in San Francisco, out near the beach.
It's not far from the zoo.
Anyway, one night my mother was visiting and she woke up to a rat jumping up to the window.
Evidently it was open for a while and then closed before I rented the room. Ratso was trying to leave the way he came in.
From then on we called the place "The Rat Motel."
Another friend from Santa Cruz would stay up there too from time to time.
"So, how was your stay at the rat motel?"
Prince Harry rides again.
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Blue
2024 Aug 8, 6:29pm
Traps can fix them.
In my hood, a wide open property got cleaned up including cutting weed etc. mice population spread around to say hello to everyone around. Bought few dozen traps 4/$1 and few large ones $3/trap, I guess for rats and few jelly candy bags for bait. In two weeks, got quite a few. Now they are pretty much gone. Never got into into the house, found few in the garage mostly to eat bird food but around the property. Traps are the easy solution.
Ps: glue traps worked well for neighbors!
In my hood, a wide open property got cleaned up including cutting weed etc. mice population spread around to say hello to everyone around. Bought few dozen traps 4/$1 and few large ones $3/trap, I guess for rats and few jelly candy bags for bait. In two weeks, got quite a few. Now they are pretty much gone. Never got into into the house, found few in the garage mostly to eat bird food but around the property. Traps are the easy solution.
Ps: glue traps worked well for neighbors!
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theoakman
2024 Aug 8, 6:40pm
Rat's are smart, hard to catch. But with vermin, I just go nuclear on them. I will literally lay a minefield of traps that they must cross. No bait, just a minefield of loaded traps. Sometimes I go into my shed and find 5 or 6 mice dead from 1 night. I buy mice traps 100 at a time.
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beershrine
2024 Aug 8, 6:50pm
Rat trap for sure one trap should do it. I have mice so I'm always taking them down. I use lunch meat on the trap seems to work for me you don't need a lot.
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Patrick
2024 Aug 8, 7:16pm
Patrick
2024 Aug 8, 7:16pm
B.A.C.A.H. says
Made me wish I had a cat before I came up with shooing it back towards the window.
It also occurred to me that I have a shotgun nearby, lol.
We don't have a rodent problem. We have a cat.
Made me wish I had a cat before I came up with shooing it back towards the window.
It also occurred to me that I have a shotgun nearby, lol.
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socal2
2024 Aug 8, 7:48pm
We lived in a beach rental in Pacific Beach for alot of years that had rats we had to deal with. It was a 1950's build with an easy to access crawl space from the outside. The house had a large dog door too from the previous renters and we had an indoor/outdoor cat that used it.
After our first child was born those first few weeks/months with restless nights I would often wake up hearing loud eating/crunching noises in the kitchen and just figured it was the cat. The area around the cat bowl would be a bit dirty too, but didn't think anything of it because we took care of the rats previously and didn't see any rat shit.
After several weeks, I hear it again and notice the cat is sleeping on the bed. I go investigate the kitchen to find a huge fat racoon eating the cat food. The fucker had to walk past our bedroom door and through the house to get to the kitchen and had apparently been doing it for weeks!
I start yelling at it and the thing stands on its hind legs and starts hissing at me. I'm able to chase it through the house toward the dog door and it stops a couple times to challenge me and stands on its hind legs again but ultimately runs out the door.
We got a radio collar activated cat door the next day.
After our first child was born those first few weeks/months with restless nights I would often wake up hearing loud eating/crunching noises in the kitchen and just figured it was the cat. The area around the cat bowl would be a bit dirty too, but didn't think anything of it because we took care of the rats previously and didn't see any rat shit.
After several weeks, I hear it again and notice the cat is sleeping on the bed. I go investigate the kitchen to find a huge fat racoon eating the cat food. The fucker had to walk past our bedroom door and through the house to get to the kitchen and had apparently been doing it for weeks!
I start yelling at it and the thing stands on its hind legs and starts hissing at me. I'm able to chase it through the house toward the dog door and it stops a couple times to challenge me and stands on its hind legs again but ultimately runs out the door.
We got a radio collar activated cat door the next day.
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Al_Sharpton_for_President
2024 Aug 9, 8:15am
Al_Sharpton_for_President
2024 Aug 9, 8:15am
Rat in our bedroom, caught on a limb
You know better but I know him
Like I told you, what I said
Steal your face right off your head
You know better but I know him
Like I told you, what I said
Steal your face right off your head
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WookieMan
2024 Aug 9, 9:18am
WookieMan
2024 Aug 9, 9:18am
There's a lot of field mice around us. I go the inhuman route and put about 5 poison traps around the exterior of the house like you sometimes see around restaurants. And yes I know it can kill other animals that eat the mice. I don't care. Haven't had a mouse in 6-7 years get in the house. Sorry to the animals that eat dead mice, but maybe tell them to not go around my house.
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DemocratsAreTotallyFucked
2024 Aug 9, 9:27am
DemocratsAreTotallyFucked
2024 Aug 9, 9:27am
beershrine says
I tried three different traps and the rat in my kitchen avoided all of them. Ultimately one of our cats got the fucker.
Rat trap for sure one trap should do it. I have mice so I'm always taking them down. I use lunch meat on the trap seems to work for me you don't need a lot.
I tried three different traps and the rat in my kitchen avoided all of them. Ultimately one of our cats got the fucker.
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Patrick
2024 Aug 9, 10:35am
Patrick
2024 Aug 9, 10:35am
Just not on that one window. To keep the occasional mosquito out, we had a roll up plastic screen, which the rat easily got under.
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FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden
2024 Aug 9, 12:03pm
i get rid of rats all the time, we have animals so mice and rats come. just get a bucket trap… collect them in the morning. easiest option.
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AmericanKulak
2024 Aug 9, 12:17pm
AmericanKulak
2024 Aug 9, 12:17pm
Patrick says
Glue trap, works like a charm.
OK, can't sleep like that, but now what? Not a situation I ever had to deal with before.
Glue trap, works like a charm.
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Patrick
2024 Aug 9, 1:14pm
Patrick
2024 Aug 9, 1:14pm
I'm sure my wife would object to a glue trap.
FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says
Looks like fun:
But for now, we have a truce: rats stay outside, and we don't bother them. I suppose the plum tree is still feeding them, but OK.
FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden says
just get a bucket trap
Looks like fun:
But for now, we have a truce: rats stay outside, and we don't bother them. I suppose the plum tree is still feeding them, but OK.
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Patrick
2024 Aug 9, 1:17pm
Patrick
2024 Aug 9, 1:17pm
Eric Holder says
True, but that ONE fucking mosquito that gets in each week night is really annoying in the middle of the night.
Running a fan is usually enough to keep them from finding us.
If that doesn't work, I have the zapper:
zzyzzx says
You don't have screens on your windows???
No need in SFBA. We have almost no bugs.
True, but that ONE fucking mosquito that gets in each week night is really annoying in the middle of the night.
Running a fan is usually enough to keep them from finding us.
If that doesn't work, I have the zapper:
I had heard something outside one window, but not much more. Then she said it again, and I heard something moving under the bed.
Shit. Had to get up, turn on the light, and look around. At first neither of us saw anything, but after a while, I saw a rat tail sticking out from behind a box. I stepped closer and BAM it ran back under the bed.
OK, can't sleep like that, but now what? Not a situation I ever had to deal with before.
After thinking about it a bit, we took apart the bed, making a channel to the window out of various items, and shooed the rat down the channel back towards the window, which has a built-in seat under it, providing a kind of stairway. I also made a ramp out of a board from the bed. Everyone was relieved when the rat finally scampered up and jumped out the window, including the rat herself. I think it was a pregnant she-rat, from appearance. Pretty healthy looking too.
From some rat shit and dried plums under the bed, we realized it had moved in when we took our vacation in Spain recently, via an open 2nd story window looking onto a plum tree. We sometimes heard them running along the gutters, but none ever came in before. Now we leave that window closed. I suppose we could install a metal screen.