re: I just rumbled with a rat. I won! (Dead rat pics included)

frick yeah. I hate rats. But, as was mentioned earlier, if you have one, you have more. Much like roaches. So be prepared for another epic BB gun fight.

As for other more passive means of rodent ridding, I've had luck with the sticky glue traps with a spoonful of peanut butter in the middle of it. They get stuck but can't resist the peanut butter, especially if hungry. Once they go for the peanut butter and eat enough of it down to the glue, they can't breathe and literally eat themselves to death. I've caught 4 of them sumbitches on the same glue trap before using that method.

But I like your method more.

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It was happening in slow motion. As he was flying thru the air I could clearly see his rat face, like in your pic, coming directly at me. I'm pretty sure he was going for the jugular.

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Same thing happened to me a few years back. I was thinning out the top of a palm tree near my house when i reached in to pull a limb out a huge arse rat came flying out. Our eyes locked as he was flying thru the air. Scared the Sh*t out of me. My only concern was staying on the 12 ft ladder at that point

Dear ratbook?

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You sir, are THE man!!!!!

I have some raccoons causing issues here on the Northshore....any chance we can negotiate for "services"? Do you "paint houses" for varmints or is this a solo project?

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Dude, a couple buddies, case of beer, bottle of whiskey, and 3 pellet guns. You have the makings of an overnight hunting safari, without leaving your home.

Shrimp Toast Crunch

FIFY

Now do squirrels.

Lulz

Awesome play-by-play, I could definitely feel the energy of the moment. You should submit this to as your audition piece to replace Zach Strief in the booth. With that said, I doubt I would have thought of it in the heat of the fight, but next time:

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hiding behind the folding tables
he ran behind the tables again
to the folding tables once more.

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This is obviously his respawn point, you just need to set-up for the sniper shot.

Several years ago, we had a Trailblazer that I drove to work. One morning there was some shredded paper on the floorboard, etc, and I couldn't figure it out. Then, I noticed other shredded materials like foam, and poop... I've got a damn mouse in a seat.

I pulled the seat out, beat it around, beat all around the vehicle, nothin. Vacuumed and obsessively cleaned.

Next day, more shredded material. Pulled out ALL 4 seats, panels, carpet. Where the hell is this thing?? I found tunnels in the panels, and a mostly chewed thru rear seatbelt inside the panel.

I set mousetraps, and the next day, they were just tripped. I got rat traps. Just tripped. I talked to a friend of the family, and he said it would be a rat, and to get glue traps.

I put down a whole pack of glue traps and the rat traps.

The next morning, there was a rat the size of a damn cat in there, stuck in 2 glue traps and in a regular trap.

I cannot figure out how the crap it got in, and moreso how it was able to move thru such tiny holes. They can really compress. I had the heebie jeebies for a week, knowing at any time a damn mouse or rat might just stick his head up between my legs as I was driving.