See?!! You think, "Oh piece of cake, I'll get this rat bastard, and next time you know, you've fed the damn rat like a pet and it's Rat 4, Humans 0."

May you catch nothing else in your trap but a rat and may it be soon...

Good luck getting the rat(s) Jim. My parents have had a family living in their basement and they are shitting and pissing on everything not to mention eating through all the boxes down there and eating the wood beams and insulation. They have had several of the traps that they baited with peanut butter and chocolate chips. So far they have got 6 of them and they think there is only 1 more. Once you get one often you will get tons more because they tell their whole damn family and put up a sign near the hole that they use to get in that says “Free Lodging”. The last rat has learned from the rest and is flipping the traps over and stealing the peanut butter and chocolate chips anyway. Darn varmints!

GO RAT!

All cheering for the rat aside, I confess: I'd rather not have a wild rat in my house. Seventeen tame ones are enough, tenkyouveddymuch.

Jim, if you want to get rid of the rats (and if you've got one you've probably got several) I'll offer some hints, based on restaurant cleanliness principles and my own experience with rats...but ONLY if you promise to use a no-kill Hav-a-heart trap and that you release them far, far away from your home, in Barbra Streisand's house.

Or a field or the woods or something.. Whichever is more convenient.

Thanks for the offer Victor but we've moved to firm measures. It's definitely an infestation and we have too many kids and animals around to use anything except the brutally efficient methods.

HA HA HA!GOT THE LITTLE MOTHER FUCKER!
Or at least one of them...and I hope it was only one.
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