We have a rat in the kitchen...first time in my entire life I've ever had to deal with rats. Mice, yes...I used to live just inside the city limits and when it got hot and dry and the creeks dried up, the field mice, possums, raccoons and skunks would wander down the hill to the neighbourhood. We had a colony of feral cats in the neighbourhood that was pretty good about keeping them at bay, although my little Peke found a juvenile possum in the front yard once and nearly came out of her skin with excitement!
I called my pest control guy out...he sprays for bugs twice a year because we get spiders almost as big as Puddin' here!...and he said it was a rat, not a mouse, and hid a bunch of stronger-than-I-can-buy rat poison around the kitchen. I found myself wishing Puddin' was bigger...older...she is SO fierce now that, give her a year, she will be the bane of any kind of vermin around here! I just hope she doesn't hurt my geckos! |