There's a rat in mi kitchen...

B00 | 11:50 Tue 18th Oct 2011 | Food & Drink

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No really there is, and I'm totally freaked out.

We have an old fire, never used in there, and I'd noticed the dog snuffling round it extremely interested and jokingly said to Mr Boo "Bet there's a rat behind there". Well it bloody backfired on me, as apparently there is, Mr Boo saw it scuttle back in there when he did a late night forage for food (hubby I mean, not the rat, though no doubt that's what it was doing as well!) I know (well now I do) that it was eating the dog's left over food, so that will be picked up before i go to bed each night, there's nothing else (food wise) it can get to.

Would a humane trap work? About a tenner on Ebay. Reluctant to put poison down as a) im a softy, don't want to actually kill it, and b) scared the dog will eat the poison instead. What do I put in there? The trap I mean? Chocolate?

Mr Boo says that once it's gone, he'll rip the fire out and board up the hole.

Please help me, I shudder each time I think about it :-(

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ummmm

The reason the rats got into ours.....the alkies next door, who were very funny, used to have weeks and weeks of binbags piled up in the outhouse. Their outhouse is connected to ours...and rats could get into them through the drainpipes. We haven't seen one since they got kicked out...

I'm convinced we've tiled over a rat though...the cat goes to the same place, where there used to be a hole, and just stares at it....it's quite spooky.

B00

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Not sure why I've been lucky enough to have my new house guest to be honest!

Next door have a rabbit, and keep the food stored in their shed. The neighbours already told me she's seen a rat shoot off under her shed. So maybe that'll be why?

I'm hoping it got in via the open kitchen door, which it was pretty much most of summer.

mccfluff

the rat was shooting of her shed, what at the rabbit???

B00

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no rofl, she has a pet rabbit- and she keeps it's food in the shed- the rat scuttled off under her shed when she went outside.

mccfluff

i had some wierd mental images going on there :-)

ummmm

The poor thing is probably desperate to get out....but someone keeps on stamping so it's too scared to move...

EvianBaby

I don't know if rats are the same as mice in terms of the bowel control - in fact I don't know if they even have bowels - but if they are, then the rat will also be leaving traces of it's p!ss wherever it walks.

You need to kill it.

mccfluff

its probably the hairy toes that are scaring it

sandyRoe

Boo, you can be sure of one thing. There's not just one rat in your kitchen. There's a family of them.

ChuckFickens

Wouldn't a lack of bowel control cause it to poo everywhere, rather than pee, which would be a lack of bladder control.

ummmm

Sandy....Ratter, the ex pest controller, said that wasn't true.

Ric.ror

Sorry but i dont have time to read all the replies so please forgive if I duplicate but I was told by a council rat guy to put poision in a small plastic bag like a sandwich bag then smear a tiny amount of peanut butter or choch spread on it
In the morning if the bag has been torn you will know its been at it.

Guess youll have to get up before the dog

sandyRoe

When I had rats in my last flat I eventually killed 5 of them. If they weren't a family they must have been good friends.

EvianBaby

"Wouldn't a lack of bowel control cause it to poo everywhere, rather than pee, which would be a lack of bladder control"

Mayyyyybbeeee!

danchip

you need to deal with it quickly, your 1 rat will soon turn into a lot and thats even before they start breeding, my great uncle used to be a rat catcher and took me to work with him during the holidays!

We used to get the customers to put down flour so that they could see where the rats were running!