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Post by Perfect Mess on Aug 20, 2013 16:14:37 GMT -5
OK, I called the exterminator. He said 24 rats is an abnormal amount to have caught in 10 days, "but not for your house".  !! He said he remembers my house was "overrun". Even tho he didn't actually see any, he did see the evidence of them outside the house and in the attic. sigh.. So he just said that I should give it another week or so and that it should start tapering down soon. |
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Post by Perfect Mess on Aug 20, 2013 16:32:24 GMT -5
Oh! And he also said that rats hoard food so even if I remove all the food sources from the house, they will continue to survive off their hoarded food.
Common sense tells me the rats wouldn't necessarily have much of a reason to risk getting killed for the peanut butter in those traps until their stashes of food run out.
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Post by Perfect Mess on Aug 20, 2013 19:22:56 GMT -5
+1 = 25
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Post by Blackswan on Aug 20, 2013 20:19:11 GMT -5
Maybe we should take estimates on the final number of dead rats and the one that is closest will win a prize! That would be such a neat little squalor game . I hope that they will all be gone soon. Good job on taking care of it. |
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Post by Perfect Mess on Aug 20, 2013 21:24:08 GMT -5
! That would be interesting to do. I think it will reach 30 or more. Maybe 31? |
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Post by Fivecat on Aug 20, 2013 23:39:34 GMT -5
Maybe we should take estimates on the final number of dead rats and the one that is closest will win a prize! That would be such a neat little squalor game . Oh! That sounds fun! Put me down for my age, 54, which i will be next bday. Plus, its the 25th anniversay of my 29th bday! Thinking of having an anniversary party  |
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Post by razy on Aug 21, 2013 2:03:43 GMT -5
28
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Post by dreamingofchange on Aug 21, 2013 3:23:48 GMT -5
I say 36 |
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Post by bigrae on Aug 21, 2013 9:15:28 GMT -5
:naughty:44of the furry .....fiends
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2013 9:27:17 GMT -5
put me down for 32
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Post by Perfect Mess on Aug 21, 2013 9:45:30 GMT -5
Caught zero last night. First night without catching rats. This upsets me because I know we still have more live ones.
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Post by casper on Aug 21, 2013 13:40:21 GMT -5
Keep moving the traps around. Rats travel along the walls so make sure to place them in their little highways. You have been doing GREAT! Also, every time I have ever found a rat's nest, the rat had all sorts of food and other stuff hoarded in there. Soon their little pantries will run low and they will set out to restock. |
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Post by Blackswan on Aug 21, 2013 19:43:40 GMT -5
Put me down for 47!
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Post by Perfect Mess on Aug 21, 2013 21:39:38 GMT -5
Just witnessed a rat running across the living room. And then heard another behind the washing machine in the garage. Meh...
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Post by lucie on Aug 22, 2013 3:50:55 GMT -5
I am betting 35  |
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