[diamondgeezer]

There are rats under my floorboards

[01010]

Are they warfarin resistant rats?

[Odyssey]

[color=cc9900]If you never noticed them before, you ought to be okay just leaving them there since they don't seem to bother you much.
If that isn't an option, then train them up so they can juggle. Make a profit out of a bad situation.[/color]

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by 01010
Are they warfarin resistant rats?

I don't know. They won't tell me.

I think they've only recently arrived. I started hearing noises a few days ago and bits of plasterboard and stuff are falling out of a hole in the kitchen celing where water pipes go...

Seriously, I'm leaving tomorrow for Xmas and the house willl be empty for at least a week. They'll have destroyed it by the time I get back, I need a sure fire method of wiping out a rat colony that can be deployed tomorrow morning before I have to go. Preferably not burning down the house.

[Taristin]

...lots of poisoned food laying around?

[diamondgeezer]

Thing is I don't want to leave food out in the open if they're content to stay under the floorboards. And I don't want to be pulling up the carpet and boards tomorrow morning. And the ****ing landlord's phone is permanently engaged...

Arrgh.

[Odyssey]

[color=cc9900]Reminds me of an experience with rats in a house I was living in a few moves back. We caught them using a non-lethal trap thingie, then put them in a big plastic box they couldn't get out of. Came back in the morning and practically the whole floor of the box was covered in baby rats.[/color]

[diamondgeezer]

The irony is I'm a rat fancier (please don't put that in a sig). I've got a poster in front of me with different fancy rat varities on it. Unfortunately the old man has a phobia of them and the landlord here doesn't allow them so I've never been able to keep any.

They're cute when they're babies. It's such a shame they have to grow up and give people Weil's disease.

[Odyssey]

[color=cc9900]I knew a girl once who loved rats. She had two of them (I think it was two, anyway, they ran too fast around one another to count), and whenever you saw her you had to be careful in case a rat jumped out of her top (lucky bastards). She took them everywhere with her like that.[/color]

[01010]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
The irony is I'm a rat fancier (please don't put that in a sig). I've got a poster in front of me with different fancy rat varities on it. Unfortunately the old man has a phobia of them and the landlord here doesn't allow them so I've never been able to keep any.

They're cute when they're babies. It's such a shame they have to grow up and give people Weil's disease.

I used to have a rat that was donated to me, it was immense and had to be kept in an incredibly large aquarium. He was lovely though and was pretty clever. As rats go.

[Beowulf]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I need a sure fire method of wiping out a rat colony that can be deployed tomorrow morning before I have to go. Preferably not burning down the house.

Fire. Lots of fire.

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by 01010
He was lovely though and was pretty clever. As rats go.

They're dead smart for their size. You can teach them all sorts of tricks. I'm hoping to teach these ones how to pack their bags and get the **** out of my house.

[Odyssey]

Originally posted by Beowulf
Fire. Lots of fire.

[color=cc9900]That would be discounted under the "preferably not burning down the house" bit.[/color]

[diamondgeezer]

It's just that being in the middle of a terrace, the nieghbours migh consider it a bit anti-social

[vyper]

[q]The irony is I'm a rat fancier (please don't put that in a sig). [/q]

Kiss. Of. Death.

[q]They're dead smart for their size. You can teach them all sorts of tricks. I'm hoping to teach these ones how to pack their bags and get the **** out of my house.[/q]

I'd recommend some positive action.... with some poison.

[diamondgeezer]

W00t, two quotes

[EDIT] The little ****ers are at it again, I can hear them. Little bastards.

[Odyssey]

[color=cc9900]You know, you can get these feckin' huge rats around, even in good ol' England. I've seen dark shapes roughly the size of badgers but with long tails, and confirmed things to be rats that weren't much smaller.[/color]

[diamondgeezer]

Yah, but these one's are just rat-sized since a) they fit under my floorboards and b) I've seen a tail. So

[vyper]

Grab the tail and chop it off!! :devil:

[Odyssey]

[color=cc9900]Sure, but there's this kind of heirarchy. What you've got are the scout rats. If they judge a place fit for a rat to live in, they call in the larger rats, which call in the larger rats...[/color]