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There is a rat!
doink!
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Dessert, I presume?
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start up the Sc, go get a bag and put the critter in it, put the bag around the exhaust pipe and fill it with exhausta and close it tight. The lil critter will die a better death than the poisoning it is going through now.
Or, you could do what my wife would do and that is squish it with her foot or pinch it's head off with her fingers...thats what happens when you marry a farm girl.
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What do you do after you catch them alive?
Rats make great pets for little kids. We have a white rat that rides on my shoulder, roams around the house then returns to his cage to sleep, likes to be scratched under the chin, and has never bitten even during the hateful bath-time. Not sure I'd ever dare try to convert a wild rat into a pet, but I guess you could ask a vet. I've trapped some wild rats in the basement, I tke them into the woods and release them. Can't use poison, with the kids and pet rat around.
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12-gauge pump.
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10-12-2005, 08:21 PM
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Yeah, if rats had furry tails or no tails they'd be more popular as housepets. I think they are pretty intelligent, as rodents go. I know the hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, etc I've met seem pretty dumb in comparison. We had hamsters briefly, they bit all the time, the kids were scared of them, finally they pushed the cage door open and escaped and we didn't try too hard to find them.
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Isn't that what udon noodles are?
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Hey pick the thing up an kill it. If it was poisoned and a dog or cat gets it, your pet will die too. Most likely a horrible death.
A friend of mines cat got a dead rat that was poisoned and the cat bled out..
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10-12-2005, 09:17 PM
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The cats are useless in my neighborhood. Thank goodness we have a mouser dog.
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Nothing more dangerous than a wounded rat. Better go for the Barrett .50
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10-12-2005, 10:42 PM
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Mike, you need a .22 for critters like that. Catch and release is bad for disease carrying vermin. Or pay for a trip for Lube's wife to come out to take care of it for you.
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One day when my boys were little they summoned me to action when they spied a rat on one of the bird feeders. Never one to be shy about such matters, I retrieved my old Sheridan 5mm pump up air rifle and confronted the little freeloader. My shot did not mortally wound him, but it did startle him enough to lose his balance and fall to the ground. Showing a good deal more backbone than I had ever previously witnessed in a rat, the little trooper did not hesitate to press home his charge. With no time to re-pump the trusty Sheridan, I was forced to cast it aside and retrieve my back-up arm; a 5mm pump-up Sheridan pistol. My shot caught him in the top of the head mere inches in front of my foot, stemming his charge at the last possible moment. His momentum carried him forward as he slammed into the toe of my Chuck Taylor, as I, yet unsure of his condition, was already digging for back-up number two, my Swiss Army knife. I immediately dropped to one knee and burried its four inch blade in his back, ensuring that my pint-sized antagonist had truly breathed his last. The kids were impressed. Impressed by his tenacity, and impressed by my steady hand in the face of such immanent danger.
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If rats had furry tails...they would be ...squirrels.
Moving him somewhere else just signs his death warrent. Rats are very territorial. If you move one from it's home turf to anothers turf. They will kill the intruder and eat him. So much for rats being cute.
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Jeff, (in my best professor from Rodney Dangerfield's "Back to School" movie voice) I like the way you think!
 That story reminds me of my exciting adventures in nighttime varmint dessimation at the bequest of my wife and daughters due to the ever present threat of catfood stealing varmints on our back deck inches from our sliding glass door! It always starts with a scream from my youngest daughter followed by a "dad get your gun". This is followed by me loading up the 12 ga pump w/ cobbed on mag light and heading out the front door whilst my wife and or daughters prepare to turn on the back light and jiggle the door after seeeing my flashlight signal on the tree out back. When possum and raccoons are the offending varmints the end comes quickly w/ the daughters often coming out to deliver the MardiGras finishing touch. Now the skunks, they sometimes prove to be worthy adversaries as they must be carefully stalked around the house and bushes until they can be coaxed to make a run for the road (that conveniently has a deep ditch on the other side of it). Once they cross the road, a well placed 12 ga blast often will propel them thru the air to their eternal watery grave thus eliminating the vile job of carcass disposal! Oh the joys of living in a rural area!
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When we were young and foolish, a friend of mine caught a large rat in a steel drum using the lever method...put the drum next to a table, take a wooden ruler (the gangplank) balance it so that one end is on the table and the other end protrudes out in the middle of the drum opening, place a chunk of cheese on the end and wait. Next morning there was the rat, very much alive and eager to escape. Not knowing how to send the rat to heaven we decided that incineration would be the best option. Taking the wisdom to move the drum outdoors, we poured a liberal amount of gasoline into the barrel and put a match to it. A large explosion occured and in our haste to back away, we kicked the can over on its side, whereupon the rat, very much alive and very much on fire, made its escape to a large field, lighting all of the dried grass in the process. This caused a huge grass fire in the middle of an industrial area, road closures, fire department, police, etc. We never did fuss up to the rat, he's been in heaven for 25 years or so...
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Fred, thanks for sharing. That is a classic that would be hard to ever forget!
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fred... pisser of a story. Would have love to be there in person.
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