I feel like such a wimp!

[Why Syzygy]

They are exterminating the attic of 'rodents' and taking them out. So glad I haven't gotten to see one, but I think they are about as big as tigers from the sounds of what's been going on up there. #4 today and I think there are at least three more up there. Anyone feel like praying for the crossing over? I'm just having creeps. Now that they are gone, I'm feeling a bit calmer.
Dunno.

[MorningGlow]

1. Go toward the light, little rodentia...

I hear you, VSM. We had rodents--big ones--under our first house. We tried to be nice--got a Hav-a-Hart trap...and caught 1,001 chipmunks (cute but stupid critters) and several squirrels, but never the monsters we wanted. Once they got into the house and chewed a hole in the downstairs bathroom ceiling (drywall), we knew we had to take the gloves off. D-conned 'em in high summer--oh the stink! :puke:

I did send them on their spiritual journey properly, however, and felt great remorse at offing them.

[Why Syzygy]

2. LOL!

Go toward the light, little tiger size rodenita .. I'm afriad "Behr" the rodent guy is in charge of sending on their way. Glad I'm not involved. But it is disturbing hearing their squeals and what t-f-e .

Did the chipmunks get to go?

edit: laughing so hard missed a t . and no telling what else. ouch .

[MorningGlow]

3. Oh goody

Glad you're now laughing! :hi:

Tiger-size rodentia, eh? You mean like the ones in Princess Bride? Yikes!!

As for the chipmunks, let's say it was quite the tedious summer--we lived on a lake, with our parking area at road level and our house down a bunch of steps (the roof was practically at road level). The slope beside the steps down to the house was apparently hollow, there were so many chipmunks. The cats used to shred the screen door trying to get at them all scooting around on the stairs and the deck. So that Hav-a-Hart got a workout--within seconds of setting it up with just a piece of string with peanut butter on it, tied in the center of the trap, we caught our first chipmunk. "SNK!" went the trap.

Up the steps, into the car, up the road to the farm fields, release; repeat. I am not kidding--no sooner had DH or I gotten back and set up the trap again, walked away, and "SNK!" we could hear it snap shut again.

Sigh.

Trudge trudge trudge--what'd we get? Another wide-eyed chipmunk spazzing out in the trap. Sigh. Up the steps, into the car, up the road to the farm fields, release; repeat. We spent our entire weekend doing nothing but transporting chipmunks to the farm fields! I swear, after a while we were dreaming that cage-snapping-shut sound!

Now, in our third house in a village with 3,001 cats, it's a bit eerie not to see ONE chipmunk, squirrel, mouse, etc. Those cats do their due diligence, I'll give 'em that much. But our indoor kitties are bored without any rodentia infiltrating their territory.

[rumpel]

4. well...

I used to rent a house, which ended up being totally infested with rats.

At the time my 2 Afghans cornered one - they took turns in picking it up and slammed it on the carpet. My (ex, boyfriend at the time) and his friend jumped onto the raised area in front of the fireplace and just yelled -"oh shit, oh shit". I said, do something and they both just said, "but what". So I ran and got a supermarket paper bag, told the dogs to back off, and I scooped the almost unconscious rat into the bag. I did not want to see blood. Then what?
After a powpow, we drove this thing towards a field, right off the FWY and let him go. In the darkness, from the car, we witnessed that thing run straight across the street towards the row of houses...and I thought: oops.

It got so bad, that when I opened a drawer in the kitchen, I would face them, when I flipped the light switch in the kitchen I could hear them scatter and hide, some were "hiding" in the tubing at the back of the fridge. I had to throw all the food in the pantry, disinfect every single dish I had. I got an estimate from pest control, and went to see the landlord, who said, he thought as much because he saw a rat come out of the garage this morning the size of a cat! Then he showed up with a bagfull of traps for US to put.

We just found a new place thereafter.

Some animals are not meant to co-habit - the best prevention is to make sure there is no entry into the house - seal it off, and we can spare both species the agony.

:rofl:

[Why Syzygy]

5. haha . that's quite a story

In the drawer? I would have become the owner of a fire arm. It seems that I already said this . but when I was an innocent youth, and lived out in the country, we got the bb gun and went to the hay barn and did some damage.

The thing with these varmints (I have been assured that Austin has this 'unique' issue with rats in the attics, probably to run to higher ground than the floods ...) Two of them can make 20!

Behr has managed to chase them to the back part of the house again, which is where they started their little nation of rodents. He walked around the house looking for entry points. Don't know if he found any. Or has done any sealing. The racoons in north Texas used to pull the fan off to get their butts inside. A few of them forgot the exit way. Or were they just looking for a convenient burial? No idea.

Real macho men showed up there, huh? We had a 'mice' infestation before. Not Rat. This again was in north Texas, and they ate up the water hose in my washer, in the garage, so many times, Mr. come fix it and I were well aquainted. There was the huge smell . the poisoned rodent . do not even ask me to put one in a bag. I will call 911 ;) . When I lived in a devloped area, small town, after they mowed the field behind the house, we had field mice show up. They are not that big. They just wanted a field. I had a big male cat and a little scamp of a female. She was carrying on in the kitchen, and had one of them semi cornered. But she was too small. Call in the big cat. He took care of it in short order. Took it outside and, sorry to say, field mice no more. I love cats. I bet if you had a cat, there would not have been a mouse in your drawer!

I cannot even imagine the kitchen drawer thing. I'm still having shock waves on that one. However, when we live in Tucson, the folks out on the newley devoped area had snakes in their utensil drawer. I guess it's spices up life a little.

It is quieter since the four godfathers have been removed. So the pack has retreted to the far reaches of the back. sigh

A new place sounds like the perfect solution for mouses in the drawer? I'm stuck on that visual. May I have a knife? Yeah, sure. He hands it over?

Don't forget deer drop fever. Or whatever it is. The deer here, in the greenbelts and outer areas, are as prevalent as the mice/rats. They seem to work together.
I wonder if what they call 'allergies' here isn't something more.