Awhile ago we noticed some little poo-poo de la vermin around our apartment. Then we observed widening holes in the screens of our study, kitchen, and back porch, and more holes appearing. All you sleuths have already deduced that yes, midnight raiders were entering our 6th story home by the windows, north and south they came.
Now how would you secure the boundary?
Just close the windows, right.
Did.
And that first night...ugh...I heard them phunk, phunk on the glass pane. Where's our hole?
Another obvious solution is to replace the breached screens, right.
Did.
It's so convenient, men wander neighborhoods yelling, "Change your screens!" Hired this fellow and he replaced five screens containing six holes.
Can you hear our glasses clinking? A toast, problem solved.
Not.
Rats, treacherous, re-chewed their passages!
We brainstormed, what to do?
Poison...dangerous for the children. Friend suggested lying in wait and bringing a broom down on the rats once they enter at the midnight hour. Tutor suggested installing and electrifying metal screens, so as to shock the rats. Titus set out a badminton racquet snare.
Wiser ones suggested glue traps.
Have you seen this kind of trap before? The black piece emits an alluring fragrance, the sticky surface immobilizes the trespasser. Then, dispose.
Three nights have passed, traps laid below screen holes. No trace of poo in our home, yet no trace of rat on trap.
What does it mean?
Are the rats of Central South University as clever as they are repugnant?
counting the graces
thank you Father for
something to laugh and joke about -- rats!
yellow rustic windowpanes
identifying with our neighbors, rat battles
Oh man, Rachel! Glad you can laugh about it. We have some sticky mouse traps in our apartment here. Haven't found any mice in one yet either. I think the rats are incredibly smart. And, I would definitely go with the hitting the rats with a broom-stick approach.
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