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by bj , Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 20:10 (2412 days ago) @ former hater of plastic

Many years ago we planted a small garden right behind the house, first with some small tomato plants. The next day they were cut off smooth with the top of the ground. Someone suggested that we had rats in the neighborhood. We got some very large traps and started catching big rats. This is when I learned to tie wire to the traps so they wouldn't carry them off. Between traps, my dog and my Daisy 777 I got a little over 20 of them.

One night I was going outside before bedtime to check on the dog. Turns out the dog had a rat cornered against the back door and when I opened the door the rat came inside as I stepped outside. My wife was screaming bloody murder so I ran back inside and spotted the rat. I had her go out in the backyard to hold the dog away from the door and I was going to shoo the rat back outside. The rat was walking slowly along the edge of the room but when he got to the door he started thinking "dog" and took off running the other way- down the hall around the corner and disappeared.

My wife said she would not go to bed until the rat was gone. I started looking and when I started pulling cushions off the living room sofa the rat ran into the bathroom. I managed to corner the rat in the bathtub and shut the sliding doors. I was standing on the toilet looking over the doors and watching the rat run around. At one time the rat climbed the hose connected to the shower head and jumped on my shoulder. I knocked him off, now he was on the same side of the doors as I was. He was running around and at one time he climbed up my leg. I shooed him off and eventually got a good shot with the Daisy and ended the problem, all while I'm standing on top of the toilet shooting down past my feet.

When this started my wife was on the phone with her neighbor friend, giving her a play-by-play description including slamming doors, she claims I screamed at one time, etc.

We had a small house but there are likely a million places a rat could hide.