It wont come out as long as there is activity in the house, but I can not stay up forever, and niether can Lucy. We are both looking to kill it. She wants it gone as much as I do. It's times like these I wish I could have my former dogs. Max, would kill it straight out, and so would Bella. They were both Cattledogs and afraid of nothing. Poor Lucy heard the rat this morning in the kitchen, she stalked, and actually made it take a few tracks back before it disappeared, and when she came back to me I could tell she was afraid. So, Kudos for her being brave in the face of advercity but she was truely scared. Poor kid.
[Show/Hide Quoted Message] (Quoting Message by Vaillant 3.0 from Friday, July 23, 2010 8:55:29 PM)| |  | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | The rats didn't come back either ever since we put on that chalk (and left it on), so there must be something in that chalk that's keeping them away.
Actually, I heard about this one town in Nevada that plays Hard Rock music on full blast to scare locusts away. You never know. Maybe it will work on that rat, too.
| | | spapad wrote: | | Well now, if it's just for roaches, I haven't had that problem since I got out of Richmond, but I thought you were saying this was like a "magic bullet" lol.
I should have known better though. I bought those silly sonic plug ins. that supposedly drive rodents away. HA!!!! Playing Metal full blast would drive them away faster! What crap people put on the market and then we poor suckers, desperate for any remedy, will buy it!
Becks:
Yeh Becks, I hope it is over by tonight! I have never felt so intruded upon. Mice don't mean nothing to me. They die with Decon in a day or two, but this bastard is something I have never had to deal with. I hate it.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Ooohhhh... okay. We had our dog outside, so we didn't have to worry about setting those traps. After a couple of days we caught the remaining rats.
As for the chalk...here ya go! Be careful, though. According to the EPA, it's illegal to use and not exactly safe. But if you really want them, just find a bargain store owned by Chinese people...or buy them online.
www.epa.gov/opp00001/health/illegalproducts/chalk.htm
| | | spapad wrote: | | That's what I did with the glue traps in Flora's room, but I can't put traps out in the kitchen because Lucy would be in danger from them too. This makes killing the big fat menace a little more difficult. I would like to know what that miracle chalk was though.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | It came in a long box and, like I just mentioned, it had Chinese lettering and a picture of a roach on it. We found it in a 99 cents store. I'll try to find info on it, though. For the rats, we also placed glue traps around the microwave and the stove (where there would most likely be crumbs) and added some pieces of actual food with rat poison placed inside of it. Good luck.
| | | spapad wrote: | | Find out what it was, just in case all my efforts fail. I won't even go in that room tonight because that thing is big and nasty.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Yikes! My house was full of them (we even had a rat or two) until my mom used this special chalk and used it on cabinets, some boxes, etc. Haven't seen one ever since. It had Chinese lettering, so who knows what's in that stuff.
| | | spapad wrote: | | I know all about roaches. The City of Richmond, VA is full of them in the old parts. No matter how much my roomie and I bombed the place with chemicals they still came. I you could have seen the garbage cans for our apartment you would puke. The roaches were so prevalent, that our way of throwning out the trash was to have one of us go down to the trash cans with a broom, open it, and then stand back while the other threw the trash from the second floor into the bin. The bin was completely covered in roaches and you really didn't want to touch them. Gross, gives me chills to this day to think about how many were around.
| | | Vaillant 3.0 wrote: | | Heh. I remember I was barely waking up one morning (still in bed), and I decided to turn myself over to the other side. Once I did, I saw something walk on the edge of the matress. After narrowing my eyes to focus on that object (didn't have glasses on), lo and behold, it was a roach. A big one, right next to me. That certainly woke me up. Yeech.
| | | spapad wrote: | | Oh god, that chills me to the bones to think that thing could sneak up on me, and be near me! The revulsion is too much to take! I like pet rats, of other peoples, would never own one myself, but this thing is evil! I want it dead!
| | | hellrider 31038 wrote: | | hopefully you will not have a surprise visitor with you while you are sleeping.lol.
| | | spapad wrote: | | Pissing me off, or scaring the hell out of me?? Two days ago a rat moved into my daughter's bed room. I've brought every rat trapping object to our defense and yet still, the big bastard is not dead yet. Got glue traps today to add to the mayhem, and loaded the foundation with poison. I hope it dies or gets caught soon. It's big, it's loud, and it hisses at times, strangely enough, it makes a noise like a dog shaking off water on occasion. I hate this demon. My dog is afraid of it. I sent Flora to stay with her grandfather until this menace if removed from my home. Just in case I bought an old fashioned heavy broom so I don't have to worry about swinging it full force if I happen to stumble upon it on it's little trips to the kitchen, which it may as well give up on since I don't have a scrape for it to eat! Bastard Rat! I can't wait til he's dead so I can disinfect the entire house!
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