Do you remember the scene in Disney’s Ratatouille where the old lady shoots her rifle at her ceiling one too many times? Her ceiling, completely destroyed, falls to the ground and 1000’s of rats come down with it. I watched the scene at the end of the Family Day and shuddered in thinking of the scratching noises that had been coming from my own ceiling. One rat or a 1000, it was still too many.
Of course, it didn’t take a lot to notice my reaction. W and my friend, Mark, picked up on it right away. Which quickly lead to a little teasing…and a little more….and a little too much. Then W felt bad — even though it was Mark who went over board.
The next day, W called up his critter catching buddy and was soon introducing him to me and my problem. He listened as I described the scratching noises, where they came from, and when I’d heard them last. YaYa joined in as well, describing how I stood on the desk, banging the ceiling with a book, and yelling. W and Mr. Critter Catcher just smiled at me. Soon after, the screens around the bottom of my house were getting recovered, and my attic was being explored. Mr. Critter Catcher left three traps and promised to return in 1 week to check them (unless I called sooner).
As promised, Mr. Critter Catcher returned and retrieved one LARGE, smelly rat from my attic. He bagged it up and drove off with it.
Yippee!
I take it the critter wasn’t welcome :-)
Um… Ewwwww! We had that problem at our previous neighborhood. We lived close to a canyon and, not only were there rats, but rabbits, coyotes, opossums, foxes, raccoons, etc… The rats were the worst! We did the trap thing, too. It gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it. I have a feeling you might be calling the critter catching buddy sooner than one week! Good luck!
What no picture!!! you take a picture of everything else. Next time, (hopefully there won’t be) please take a picture…thanks!
I’m sure you felt relieved, but if I remember that movie correctly, one rat led to the discovery of many, many more. Hope this was a rat just out on his own.
Ew! I had rats a couple of times including a new mama an her litter. Awful. So glad you got it removed!
I think the rat family was out on vacation when Mr. Critter Catcher came by and sealed up the vents at the bottom of my 2-story house. The guy who was caught was home alone.
As for the picture, believe me, I thought about it.
I love animals, but even I can’t take mice and rats. Bleeccchhhhhhhh.
Glad that suckah was caught!
i hate rodents…why can’t they leave us alone?
Yuck; was it really a rat? I get mice and I’ve lost track of how many I’ve killed. But a rat is a different story. Shudder.
Ugh, I hate rodents living in my house! Glad you got em!