Last week during the Bottom Dwellers practice my husband went into the attic to crank our AC on into the garage. It was there he noticed rat poop and lots of it. I have not heard any goings on up there so I figured the rat was long gone. But lastnight as we were dozing off to sleep I heard it. I heard that nasty rat up in the attic walking around. It sounded like it was dragging all our electrical wires across the attic and back again. It sounded like it was knawing on the wires that conneced our fire alarms which are all hard wired. The rat was especially into the fire alarm wires that is in our bedroom. It woke me up about 4 times. A few times I got the painter roller that has not been used for painting in a few months and used it to knock on the ceiling. Kind of like telling our upstairs neighbor to be quiet. I went to a couple of sites to see how to get rid of them and screw the humane way. They should not exist. Here are a few tips from one site:
Wipe any spilled food off the clothing and faces of babies and bedridden adults - I guess I better be more diligent about this, luckily we don’t have any bedridden adults in our house yet, well maybe soon once I attack that rum filled watermelon in our fridge.
NEVER leave a bottle with a baby in the crib overnight - umm I don’t leave it overnight but just in the morning. Does that count? I can just picture the rat looking at Ollie through the AC vent waiting for him to fall asleep so he can pounce on him and his bottle.
Cut any high weeds, especially around house foundations - guilty
Store lumber at least 18 inches from the ground - guilty
Looks like we will be busy cleaning up our backyard that is a wasteland this weekend.