Author Topic: Rats in my apartment (Read 7969 times)

280plus · « **Reply #25 on:** December 18, 2009, 01:49:19 PM »

Fo'shizzle!

Balog · « **Reply #26 on:** December 18, 2009, 02:03:12 PM »

Quote from: PTK on December 18, 2009, 01:39:14 AM

When I worked as a maintenance manager, not one of our 30+ team was an illegal. Fluke?

Never lived in a complex big enough for 30+ maintenance guys, so I dunno. And all my experience has been in AZ, CA, and WA so that may skew things a bit.

Also, I need to correct myself. When we rented one half of a duplex, the owner let their.. nephew? or some relative do maintenance work. He was white. He also stole hundreds of $ of our stuff.

Firethorn · « **Reply #27 on:** December 18, 2009, 02:28:55 PM »

Quote from: Avenger29 on December 18, 2009, 01:49:14 AM

but will not eat Church's Chicken.

well, You did say they're rather smart, didn't you?

castle key · « **Reply #28 on:** December 18, 2009, 02:35:15 PM »

Quote from: Chrissy on December 17, 2009, 10:13:22 PM

Get a dog

What next!!??

280plus · « **Reply #29 on:** December 18, 2009, 02:48:55 PM »

gator, gators love dogs...

jackdanson · « **Reply #30 on:** December 18, 2009, 04:19:55 PM »

Then for the gator you could get a great white.

Hmm your rat problem would be solved, but you'd have a shark in your bathtub.

roo_ster · « **Reply #31 on:** December 18, 2009, 06:31:16 PM »

Just skip tot he snakes and hopr the cold weather kills them.

280plus · « **Reply #32 on:** December 18, 2009, 07:14:01 PM »

Cobras, that oughta do it.

gunsmith · « **Reply #33 on:** December 19, 2009, 02:07:38 AM »

rats can be to big for cats, my friend in NYC trained his dog to kill rats.
he had a small german sheperd...it loved killing rats.
poison works good, they have some new kind that takes the smell away after a day or two. If you really really hate rats like I do then the smell of dead ones is like perfume

Chrissy · « **Reply #34 on:** December 19, 2009, 07:50:03 AM »

Actually, Jack Russell Terriers are great ratters. Many people who have horses own them because they chase and kill rats so they are good barn dogs.

castle key · « **Reply #35 on:** December 19, 2009, 09:27:42 AM »

Quote from: Chrissy on December 19, 2009, 07:50:03 AM

Actually, Jack Russell Terriers are great ratters. Many people who have horses own them because they chase and kill rats so they are good barn dogs.

Had vermin problems in one of the barns at work.

The cats were lazy and clearly on the Federal payroll.

Vermin disappeared and then we noticed we had foxes. Despite them being a rabies vector, I liked what they did for the unwanted critters.

280plus · « **Reply #36 on:** December 19, 2009, 10:05:17 AM »

Interesting. We had foxes for a while. Haven't seen them recently but the mouse population did seem to disappear since they arrived. Squirrels too now that I think about it. Squirrels are back though. At least 3 young 'uns I saw yesterday. Still no mice far as I know.

Grandpa Shooter · « **Reply #37 on:** December 19, 2009, 02:35:46 PM »

I thought if you had varmints or vermin in your apartment you were supposed to invite a lawyer or politician over for a few days and all the other nasty living things would leave on their own.

Balog · « **Reply #38 on:** December 19, 2009, 11:31:35 PM »

Quote from: Grandpa Shooter on December 19, 2009, 02:35:46 PM

I thought if you had varmints or vermin in your apartment you were supposed to invite a lawyer or politician over for a few days and all the other nasty living things would leave on their own.

I'll stick with the rats.

Strings · « **Reply #39 on:** December 19, 2009, 11:48:19 PM »

Rat problem? Napalm works quite well.

In fact, invite the politicians and lawyers over, THEN deploy the napalm. Two birds, one ~~stone~~ incendiary device...

Doggy Daddy · « **Reply #40 on:** December 20, 2009, 12:32:19 AM »

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but will not eat Church's Chicken

Well good. At least you know they're not cannibalistic.

DD

Chuck Dye · « **Reply #41 on:** December 20, 2009, 12:18:31 PM »

Quote from: castle key on December 18, 2009, 02:35:15 PM

What next!!??

♫But I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she will die.♬

zahc · « **Reply #42 on:** December 20, 2009, 12:22:51 PM »

I think these rats, assuming there was more than 1 of them to start with, are rather smart. They stopped coming to my darkroom after getting smacked on the head by mouse traps and ever since killing the one, I haven't seen any signs of them. Of course in an apartment building they can just go somewhere else so they are probably just avoiding my wing since I became such a poor sport about it all.

roo_ster · « **Reply #43 on:** December 20, 2009, 03:12:50 PM »

Quote from: zahc on December 20, 2009, 12:22:51 PM

I think these rats, assuming there was more than 1 of them to start with, are rather smart. They stopped coming to my darkroom after getting smacked on the head by mouse traps and ever since killing the one, I haven't seen any signs of them. Of course in an apartment building they can just go somewhere else so they are probably just avoiding my wing since I became such a poor sport about it all.

I'd drop several chunks of rat poison in any entry point and then seal it up at this point. Make your apartment a place of legend/horror among rat-kind.

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Author Topic: Rats in my apartment (Read 7969 times)