Lions, and Tigers, and RATS...Oh MY!

The other day I noticed that a loaf of bread that had been quietly resting on the window sill in our kitchen had been gnawed on. the bag was chewed through and there were little bread crumbs all around. "A goddamn mouse!" I instantly thought and told Peter we would need some mouse traps for which to kill the vermin. Peter and I went to Walgreens and purchased your standard wooden spring mouse traps and some peanut butter. In my experience with mice (which is not abundant) they respond to peanut butter better than cheese.

We set up the traps and waited. No takers for a whole twenty four hours. Last evening I came home from work and Peter with a serious look said "I have bad news...it's a RAT!" He had seen it tear across the kitchen floor heading for our hot water closet. That son of a bitch is living in OUR hot water closet. Peter did some research and found out it's not a good idea to try to catch a rat in a mouse trap. They are too big and in many cases just get injured and craw back in your walls to die. Dead things in your walls are bad in case you don't already know this.

So we set about to make a homemade rat trap (also something Peter found on the internet) out of a bucket a broom and plastic soda bottle. You cut the ends of the soda bottle and run it through to about the middle of the broom. Then you place the broom over the bucket with the soda bottle in the middle. You smear peanut butter on the bottle and fill the bucket with water. Then you build the asshole a little ramp. So he can climb to the top of the bucket but not quite reach the peanut butter and as his greedy eyes will not allow him to deny himself he will continue to try and attain the peanut butter until he falls in the bucket of water. HA HA! Brilliant! Problem is that rats can swim for a long time. We have not caught him yet but when we do I have decided that I will just put a heavy pot lid over him and he will drown. I hate rats!