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On 2025-12-10 12:14, c186282 wrote:
> Was in the middle of posting here some hours ago
> when a small RAT suddenly scurried across my floor.
> Never had one indoors.
> 
> Immediately ordered the 'ag/pro only' tub of
> super rat poison.
> 
> However, a few hours later Mr. R was seen scurrying
> across the kitchen floor and out onto the back porch.
> The porch has an extreme outside door AND a door from
> the pre-porch days, sealing off the kitchen.
> 
> Cracked the outside door and closed the inner door.
> 
> Really not much for a rat to eat here. My HOPE is
> that he will take the op to exit.
> 
> But the poison is still coming - gonna toss chunks
> in a number of places, including the attic, just
> in case.
> 
> DID look, don't have any workable BB guns
> anymore ... and alas Mr. R was too quick
> to target anyway.
> 
> A few days ago I was installing an IP cam on
> an out-building and was bringing little ladders
> and tools out there - and left the back door
> open for some time. Likely that's when Mr. R
> made his ingress.
> 
> DON'T want a rat around ... not so much for
> the food stuff, but because they have an
> obsession for chewing ELECTRICAL WIRES.
> That could have rather bad effects .....

And can bring illness.

I noticed one in my kitchen years ago. I closed the door to the rest of 
the house, and put poison bait on both sides of the door. Kept the patio 
door open for some hours, hoping she would get out. Apparently she did.

But now and then I get a rat in the patio, and I put bait again. One bit 
is enough, they just take up to two weeks to die. This is on purpose, so 
that they don't relate the bait to their friends dying. Clever animals.

One rat got trapped inside a shed I have in the patio, that has the 
laundry machine inside. She almost made a hole in the door frame to get 
out. I put poison, then two weeks later flushed the floor with a hose. I 
did not want smells in the room where I hang the clothes to dry (I can 
no longer hang them out on the sun, danger of air bombardment in the 
form of bird/pigeon poo).

> 
> My late brother's house had become infested
> with field rats - WHAT A PAIN. Put poison
> everywhere and found dead, bleeding, rats
> every day for a week. ONE greedy one even
> dropped dead right in front of the bait
> container, ate the WHOLE thing ! Others
> were in the works - where pipes came in,
> some where a window-mount AC unit was.
> Sprayed foam into THAT gap ... and seem
> to have suffocated several rats in the
> goop.
> 
> Fortunately the house was 'underwater' and I had
> no intention of paying off the ridiculous mortgage.
> Was just 'caretaking' until the bank took it :-)

I had to ask ChatGPT about the meaning of being underwater :-)
Curious expression.

> 
> On the 'survival scale', rats ARE much better
> than humans.
> 


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-10 06:14 -0500
  Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-10 13:10 +0100
    Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-10 21:21 -0500
      Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-11 11:33 +0100
        Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-11 23:27 -0500
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  Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-12-11 03:38 +0000
    Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2025-12-11 04:20 +0000
      Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-11 03:53 -0500
    Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-11 01:16 -0500
      Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-11 11:43 +0100
        Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-11 23:30 -0500
          Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-12-12 12:09 +0100
          Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-12 11:16 +0000
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              Re: Mr. Ratt Screws Up The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-12 15:24 +0000
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