Aw,you mean it is not like the movie Ratatioulle? If the rat would actually cook for you and earn its keep that would be much better. Unless of course, it made meals featuring soap as the main ingredient.
Someone once told me about how they rid their place of rodents without poison. What they did was mix a solution of plaster of paris powder and corn meal and leave it in the middle of the kitchen floor. They also put a bowl of water nearby for the inevitable thirst. So yeah, basically it plasters the rodent to death from the inside.
Soap is saponified fat! I'm pretty sure that saponified fat isn't nutritious to MOST things. If you can saponify all the fat in a human body before it decays significantly... it WON'T decay significantly.
This is a more complicated and less mosquito-attracting version of a trash-can filled with water, which another friend of mine suggested elsewhere. It's also easier to dispose of the rat without touching it.
They say that private citizens shouldn't touch wild rodents (even dead ones), because of some disease or another... but it's probably a lot better than the regular handling of their feces, which is an inevitable portion of my current life.
The rat is not large. It's not a NY Rat. But it is definitely ratty. It has the long, narrow, hairless tail that rats have. Unless I'm mistaken that is a unique identifier of rats (give or take other rodents that have recently lost their tail-fur in some accident or another.
I moved into the office at my new job this summer to find rat shit all over the place. I spent the whole first week just cleaning the place up. They were doing some construction in the building and it apparently brought all the rats out of hiding. Also, the previous occupants of my office were not very clean people and tended to leave their food lying around. On a side note, today I finally got fed up with staring at the food particles stuck under the keys on my keyboard (they are clear plastic) and took the whole keyboard apart and washed it. Ewwww. So I reported the rat droppings and the pest control guy came in and put a bunch of rat traps around (the old fashioned snap-shut kind), using peanut butter, cheetos, and slim jims as the bait. The cheetos and peanut butter traps both caught rats within a week, and I haven't seen any activity since.
It was fun coming into work after the weekend and smelling a decomposing rat in my office which they didn't get around to removing until late in the afternoon.
If you have seen one rat, you likely have several. You need an exterminator, TRUST ME. Those shitheads can get in through the weirdest/smallest/most hidden places.
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Someone once told me about how they rid their place of rodents without poison. What they did was mix a solution of plaster of paris powder and corn meal and leave it in the middle of the kitchen floor. They also put a bowl of water nearby for the inevitable thirst. So yeah, basically it plasters the rodent to death from the inside.
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They say that private citizens shouldn't touch wild rodents (even dead ones), because of some disease or another... but it's probably a lot better than the regular handling of their feces, which is an inevitable portion of my current life.
The rat is not large. It's not a NY Rat. But it is definitely ratty. It has the long, narrow, hairless tail that rats have. Unless I'm mistaken that is a unique identifier of rats (give or take other rodents that have recently lost their tail-fur in some accident or another.
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It was fun coming into work after the weekend and smelling a decomposing rat in my office which they didn't get around to removing until late in the afternoon.
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