I must preface this story with a confession...I'm a chicken. I am a turn off the lights and run to the bed, jump at every noise, needs a night light sort of chicken! So, there, I said it!!
A few weeks ago I went out the the laundry room to switch the clothes around. I heard something rattle around in the storage area. So, knowing good and well that it was a rabid, scary monster that was out for an 8pm snack (ME!), I ran back inside to get Kevin. He came outside and looked around a bit (add swooning here) and then concluded that my monster was really a rat. To prove this to me, he produced a bag that used to contain my favorite Christmas wreath. This is the one that I made by myself. The wreath used to have VERY large acorns glued around it and was wrapped in a red and gold ribbon. (Note the use of past tense) Well, the rat ate every single acorn off of my wreath!! All I was left with was a bag full of cracked shells, destroyed straw, and pretty red and gold ribbon.
Kevin was sure that he had scared the big, bad rat out of the room. I was pleased. He's my hero!
Fast forward to tonight. I go to the laundry room to get the Christmas lights out of the storage area. I open the door, flip the light switch, and see my tormentor scurry up a pipe into the upper area of the laundry room. I did what any brave soul would do...I screamed, ran back inside, and grabbed Mr. Hero again. Upon investigation, he learned that the monster had torn up 2 car seats. I can hear you saying that I can simply replace the padding. That was my thought. But, in the monster's quest to hit me where it hurts, my wallet, he ate the STRAPS to the car seats!!
So, being a lover of animals, I decided to kill him. Okay, so I don't love animals. But, I also don't love having to buy another car seat. I went out to Lowe's to buy rat traps. Mr. Hero filled them with little rodent temptations and set them out in the laundry and storage rooms. Now we wait......
Hopefully tomorrow's post will say "Mr. Hero saves wife!"
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Yeah! :) - for a blog that is not RATS! We found that in our other house the rat trap only stunned the rat. When Ted picked it up (by it's tail) to take it outside it frantically started swirling in his hands to get loose. YIKES! We tried glue strips too. Ted chased the rat down the road with a baseball bat to kill it and put it out of it's misery since it would have been a slow death. Then in this house we used poison and ewwww it's a nasty smell. :) Oh the joys of rats.
Yeah, we thought about poison, but I didn't want him crawling off, dying, and then stinking the place up. Ew!
I slammed a mouse in the back of my boys dresser drawer the other day. Caught him right in the neck! I sure was surprised to see that little fellow when I went to pull a T-shirt out for my son. I was glad I killed him though after seeing all the holes it put in three nearly new shirts.
My sister had a mouse in her Christmas tree a couple years ago and her husband shot it out with a BB gun.
Oh the adventures of living with rodents!
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