I think there may be a RAT in my house!! I'm petrified! I could be wrong but i was in the kitchen washing a plate when something ran over my foot. Good thing i was wearing slippers, cause im usually barefoot, but still i felt it and it felt a little heavy!! I jumped and looked down and saw a black face staring at me, usually mice are gray. The body was under the kitchen sink, when i screamed it ran under. Now i wont go anywhere near the sink, the only 2 things im PETRIFIED of are RATS and WATERBUGS!!!! Mice, i am afraid of but not as much. Now..RATS...i live in NYC so there's lots in the street, they will stare me down and even hiss! I hate them! I really hope im wrong and hope it's a mouse instead, but i heard someone on the 5th floor found a rat in their apt. It's very unusual, there's never rats here! There must be a big hole somewhere, anyway im leaving and taking the dogs to my bf's until my mom get's home. I'm so scared, idk what to do. I wont go near the kitchen at all! |
oh yuck! Im not afriad of them, but I sure wouldn't want one in my house!! |
We used to have one as a pet. My daughter named it Rosie Perez. I wouldn't want a "wild" one in my house tho! |
My husband works downtown Chicago and there are rats all over the place there too! YUCK!!!!! Once many years ago (15 plus) I was buying dog food in Walmart and there was a rat on top of the bags of dog food! FREAKED me out! I totally don't blame you for leaving and if I were you I wouldn't be coming back until there was a carcass for me to see with my own 2 eyes! |
That would freak me out too. We've had them in our crawl space and attic but never in the house. If you live in an apartment I would think it would be your landlords responsibility to take care of the problem. One word of advice though is don't use poison, trap them instead. If they are poisoned they can crawl between walls or into very small spaces and die and they they smell terrible. Plus if they are poisoned and another animal eats them they too can be poisoned. Good luck!!! |
:eek: I would be TERRIFIED!! I hate mice and rats. I hope you get him soon! |
My mom said it's prob just a little mouse. Apparently shes not scared, and said they are scared of you. Yea right. I was standing on my table LOL |
UPDATE! It WAS a RAT!! A freakin RAT!!!! Can you believe it??!!? OMG i knew it! My mom put one of those sticky traps with peanut butter in the middle and it got on it right away, and omg the squeels, it squeeled SOOO loud!! My mom took it to the super and he freaked out. lol They are going to call the department of health and close any holes here under the kitchen, im so freaked out! |
omg i would have had a heart attack, was it big?? |
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Hahaha. This makes me laugh so hard. I can totally picture you standing on the table squeaking. I'm sorry he was in your house but I'm glad you caught him. When I was younger I helped on a farm, and there were rats int he barns. They weren't bad during the day, but at night when you had to be out there with a pig giving birth you could hear them and see them. Oh My Goodness....Creepy!! They can grow to be big beasts. :) |
OMG a RAT!!! I hate rats :eek: I had on in my house when a framer was getting rid of his farm he got rid of all of his feed so the rats went to look for new homes and 1 liked mine :eek: Even my cats would not go near it. Hubby set a trap and it was bigger then a half gallon milk container!! And DvlshAngel985 rats in NY can get verry big. We have river rats and I saw one in the road and put my breaks on thinking it was a smaller dog because it was bigger than a cat. |
I'm terrified of rats, mice, snakes, - well, just critters in general! Your mother is BRAVE! I had plain old field mice back in the early fall, and I freaked out. It took 2 weeks and an exterminator to get 'em all. I trapped 2 at different times by turning the trashcan in my bathroom upside down over them. Screamed like a maniac the whole time and had my son take em outside and "dispose" of them. Thank God your super is going to do something about 'em. Make sure you pull everything out of the cabinets and wash good. The droppings will make you and your babies sick. |
My mom caught another last night, same size. She is furious! There must be a big hole somewhere in my kitchen and they need to fix it, shes calling the owners of the building right now. |
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this is giving me the creeps... omg!! iwould of had a heart attack |
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Just to share...at my condo in Irvine, as well as on campus, we have bunnies everywhere!!! Sounds cute right? That is until you figure out that they attract prey animals that sometimes mistake cute kitties and doggies as food.... |
God bless your Mom. I would have had a stroke! |
Time to put some rat bate out where the little ones have no chance of getting to it. We're moving into a house, and I left my son and his friend while I went to the water company. When I came back I said that's it I'm buying rat bates. The people who lived there before us were total slops. I think it should have been the owners job to clean all the crap up around the yard, but he's left it a mess, and still has stuff in the house, and we're suppose to move in next Saturday. I told my hubby I was taking everything that's his putting it in bags, and putting it in the Lunai. If it gets wet oh well. Can't you tell me this has me in a raggie mood. |
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OMGosh! I can't believe that rat ran over your foot! I would have freaked and been up on the table with you! Now your Mom found another one? I think I'd leave until I knew they were all gone. You said the one was probably a baby rat...do you think the whole family might be there? I hope you don't have any more encounters with rats. I hate rats...can't even look at them if I see them at the pet store or on TV. Creeeeepie!!!! Good luck! |
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