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caraMel 
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 7:26am |
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Help me please!!!
There is a rat in my house! We've met.
The little b@stard is very brave and has come out to play the last 2 mornings when I've been feeding Benjy in the living room.
Yesterday he was in the kitchen climbing into the rubbish, this morning he was playing with Benjy's playgym. (needless to say all toys and baby gear in the living room will now be sterilised)
I stamped my feet to get him out of it and he jumped inside the piano. I was so tempted to shut the lid and hammer away on it for a bit to scare him to death, but a bit too scared he might somehow leap out onto me!
Hubby set a humane trap behind the dishwasher where I saw him run yesterday and we have tried to eliminate possible points of entry, obviously to no avail.
Has anyone got any tricks or ideas to get rid of him?
Yesterday I couldn't bear the thought of him in my house, today I am completely horrified by the thought of him on my children's things.
Please please help me!
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my2angels
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 7:30am |
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yuck yuck yuck we had the same thing at our last house, once i saw it sitting on top of the toy box just half an hour before my mother in law came over (she hates mice and also thinks Im a bad housewife anyway so would not have been a good look) We ended up putting down bait, that green stuff and it worked, not nice for them unfortunately but i would rather them gone than know its on the kids stuff etc...
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 9:20am |
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Peanut butter (on or in a trap of course).
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 9:45am |
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we had a massive manky half-chewed on rat visit us a while back. seriously, if we had a cat, it would have been scare off as this thing was the size of a medium cat!
ayway, we ended up setting poison in places where the kids couldn't get into. Got some traps from mitre 10 and put the peanut b utter on them (hard to get off the trap so they stay longer then SNAP!!!
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 9:51am |
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Yup I'd try peanut butter....rats love it!!
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 10:23am |
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Thanks, yeah there is peanut butter on the traps. Its the crunchy kind though, so maybe he prefers smooth?
Might have to get some poison instead.
Wish he'd just use the trap though, at least then he can't go die in a wall or something and stink us out.
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 12:41pm |
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yeah that's the prob with poison (well, one of them!). I'd rather have a rat scrounging through my house than dead in the wall where we can't clean it up! Got a cat you can borrow?
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 2:22pm |
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Lol Andie, It had occurred to me but the only cat we have access too would probably be more scared of the rat than keen to eat it!
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 4:39pm |
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OH god i hate rats and mice...Im no help im afraid...we had a mouse come in about three years ago and it was pregnant...had babies and traps in pantry went off all the time....had to go to neighbour each day who would come empty traps for me (pre DH!) and dispose of evidence....there was like 7 babies and the mother...
GROSS.....and our cats are useless they just terrify the things and dont kill them....
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 7:32pm |
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UGH the worst I've had in my own home is ants! But when I was growing up, Mum and Dad had mice, I hate them to this day. How could anyone ever wish to have them as pets?
Sorry Mel that's not much help. Hope you can find some way to get rid of him soon.
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 8:14pm |
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....awwww but they're so cute!
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 8:20pm |
The only thing I didn't like about having mice was the SMELL... peeuuuwww... and of course I went ahead and bought two BOY mice, they are the worst for it ! But I learned my lesson and soon ended up with two girl rats, far less smelly and more fun too. Er... anyway, this probably isn't helping with the nature of this thread at all... *ahem* Sorry 
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Posted: 14 December 2006 at 8:34pm |
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I think with rat posion, it makes them really thirsty, so they venture outside to get water, and so they die outside so you don't need to worry that they will die in your walls or ceiling space as we had one in our roof, and there is no sign of it anywhere.
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Posted: 15 December 2006 at 4:23pm |
I dont like rats, mice I dont mind but OMG we used ot get rats real bad in our old place in Queenstown, they would dangle their tails from the gap in the ceiling where hte fire flu sits, so dad used to grab the tails with tongs and burn them on the fire place (in the winter of course) hehe it was funny to hear them race around the ceiling squeeking lol.
In our place in Motueka and our place in Alicetown up here, we had a huge issue with Ants, in Motueka I could undwerstand why as we had fruit tress but in Alicetown it was way worse, we had ant baite up on every high window sill in the house, and some mornings we'd wake up to a whole kitchen full of them, no matter how clean my hosue was we couldnt rid them, thankfully no more ants, mice, or rats inthis place.
I cant handle verman.
Just the spiders I need ot sort now
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Posted: 15 December 2006 at 5:07pm |
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Just a quick note about killing spiders - they don't always actually die if you vacuum them or wash them down a drain without spraying them first... they are very good at curling up into a little protective ball and then just working their way out of wherever it is they end up. Yuck.
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Posted: 15 December 2006 at 5:42pm |
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eew i remember helping my sister move to rotorua and we didnt realise there are cochroaches up there (we dont have them in chch) i was just about sick, they are so gross. We refused to move into the house until they sprayed the place. Ive never really seen a rat, only on tv and all that but my sisters cat brings them into thier house all the time. I dont like things like that cos they are so fast and you dont know where they are going to go.
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Posted: 16 December 2006 at 9:01am |
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Woohoo! haven't seen the little b@stard for the last 2 days!
He ate the peanut butter off the trap but sadly escaped capture.
No telltale stink yet either so I'm hoping he's just found someone else to visit.
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