Fucking Rats

bleach?

Had the same problem with mice in an shared house I rented a few years ago. Mine was one of the downstairs rooms and and the little critters were getting in to my room under the door.

I lost so much sleep it was unreal, one night i reset the mousetrap 8 times!

Anyway I called in the exterminators and charged the bill to the landlord. It might be worth you trying something like that.

I used to have a couple of rats for a few weeks. The fuckers would hide behind the stove, where i couldn't get them.
I placed plenty of traps, but nothing.

The best thing you can do is buy poison. It's like little pink seeds. And it's slow action poison, takes about a week to kill them, you need to re-fill the seeds every day, making sure they are eating it. They'll go back to the nest and infect the other rats. And they'll die without rotting, so you may have 20 dead rats forever within your walls and never know.

Or, call Extreme Make Over, Home Edition.

Buy a cat!

Can't you get your landlord to work on this? Surely he/she has a legal responsibilty to keep the property pest-free.

I have some cats hanging out in my roof that could help you out.

Son of a bitch I would NOT be able to sleep in that apartment ever again. I've shared pretty much everything that makes me a pussy on this board (including my OCD), but rats creep me the fuck out more than anything.

I would never sleep, I'd just spend every night curled up in the middle of my bed with a flashlight and broom in my hand.

Dude...maybe you're going about this all wrong. Maybe you should think about befriending the rat, and in turn he'll help you launch your career as a world-renowned chef.

There's an easy solution: do you have a pied pipe?

This thread needs a .gif of Nicholson doing his "This.....fucking rat" crazyness from The Departed.

I clicked on this thread expecting to talk about rodents fetishes, and it's about a mundane rat infestation?

Or help you destroy your enemies.

You might want to make sure if you have any "Food of the Gods" laying around your apartment, it's sealed up tight.

My deepest sympathies. Can't even fucking imagine.

Mice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH4EFgRB4bU

Is the big one named Ben?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTKNahASSDI

No, he calls the big one bitey.

There are these dohickeys you plug into your electrical outlets that are supposed to use sonics to repel or drive vermin away (we have a few here at work - they work pretty good). Here's a link to a similar item. Hope this helps, otherwise, you could follow billylove's advice. Worked great for Bruce Davison and Crispin Glover.

Take a clue from Peter Weller in Of Unknown Origin and stomp around your apartment in a goalie uniform while swinging a baseball bat studded with nails.

I am a big 300 pound pussy when it comes to mice. I am dreading my eventual move into Philly just because of this. Unfortunately you will need to get an exterminator to solve the problem. My suggestion.

Get a new apartment.

As long as it's not Sumatran rat-monkeys, it's all good.



But if it is, prepare for laughter. And gore.

Surprised we've gotten this far without a Rodents of Unusual Size quip.

I'm surprised we don't have a youtube link to 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' yet.

That's because we don't think they exist.

Head on over to Alberta! the largest RAT-FREE area!! ... or so I hear. Our taxes pay for the Rat Patrol so it better be.

You guys have the Reform Party. That's way worse.

Lived in urban Alberta for all but two of 36 years, and I've yet to see one.

We get fruit (roof) rats in the backyard due to the citrus trees (FL). They also gorge themselves on birdseed if we don't take the feeders in at night. They then in return, attract snakes. Ah Florida.

I've been in urban Alberta as well ... I'd assume if there is a small rat population, they're hiding out in the rural areas.

Yes but your Calgary Flames fan infestation is far worse.

Go to Home Depot and just buy this: http://is.gd/b2sL

Works fine.

Kill it with fire.

This is by far the most colorful solution. I like the way this guy thinks. And how can you NOT follow the advice of a guy named Ratty on this topic?

Wrong forum.
Don't be fooled -- the guy's just obsessed with rat terriers.

....they should all sleep with the fishes.

The house I lived in for seven years had a recurring rat problem. The sad truth is, over the long haul, they win. There are many solutions that work for a few months, maybe even a couple of years. But once they've targeted your home, they find ways back in. The fuckers are evil.

The best part is when you get competing males in the house who decide to start challenging each other. They'll actually shriek at each other. Loudly. In the middle of the night. Lovely thing to wake up to, I assure you. Eventually, they got to the point where they got ballsy enough to run out into the main rooms while we were up and about, even with the TV playing, and all the lights on.

And I don't know what kind of pussy rats some of you are dealing with that are actually driven away permanently by those electronic placebos. The best they ever did for me was keep the rats out of the specific room the doohickey was plugged into. And in the long run, not even that. They didn't even fall for traps half the time. The poison was more successful, but sometimes they'd crawl off and die somewhere inaccessible, and rot for weeks. The stench is unbelievable.

If you call an exterminator, make sure they don't just kill the rats. That's just a stop-gap. You need to find a service that will inspect the building, find where they're getting in, and cover the entrances with metal grates that the rats can't chew through. Then they can set about killing the ones that are trapped inside. Of course, that's still not a permanent solution. It's something you have to do once every year or two, because they'll just make new holes.

The best plan is to move into a newer building. Newer buildings tend to use more metal and hard plastic and siding; things that rats have a hard time chewing through. Our house was built in 1922, which means it was almost all wood. You may as well just leave the doors and windows open and invite them in.

And to think, before that experience, there was a time when I had pet rats. Never again. I want to crush the fuckers now.

I had to switch to another dorm building because I had the mother of all rat infestations last semester. I killed five rats in that fucking room before I had enough and demanded a room switch. Odd thing is, not only was my room immaculately clean and had no food in there since I ate in the dorm and had no roommate, I was on the THIRD FLOOR of my building, which means that the fuckers had to either go up three flights of stairs and somehow pick my room as home base, or someone on my floor was releasing rats. The trick to getting them is peanut butter. I'd put a nice big glob of peanut butter on a snap trap, turn out the lights to go to sleep, and about ten minutes later I'd be jolted out of bed by a loud SNAP! I complained to the higher-ups with no success, until I threatened to go to the local media (WRAL, the biggest news station in NC, is directly across the street from my college) and complain about how the biggest school in the state makes its students sleep in rat-infested rooms. The next day, I got a new room.

God I was so excited when I saw the title of this thread. I got out my astroglide for nothing.

Actually, Harley, a lot of the rats we get in America don't come up from ground level. They're Norwegian roof rats. They move across phone and power lines and go from rooftop to rooftop, chew their way in on the top, and come down, often inside the walls. So it doesn't really matter which floor you're on.

Sweet dreams.

Then they must be experts, because I don't even know anyone who's seen a rat in the wild since the 1950's and I come from farmer-types on both sides of the family, my dad's and the other one.

I haven't had one rat since I moved to a different building

Sleeping soundly.

So, quick question...Masking Tape or Gaffer/Duct/Duck/Fabric Tape?