rats n o m my house has rats they were here when i moved in i tried catching them in a cage two drowned in the toilet in the winter, one, one morning when i got up to pee it was in the toilet, i tried to save it it was choking on the water, did i write about this? i should've just grabbed it by the tail but instead tried to help it out with the plunger, it was really scared i went to grab some gloves came back and got it out but it died as i watched there was nothing i knew to do i tried to keep the lid down after that but another morning a couple days later or so i found another, already dead in the water since then, there seems to just be one trying to stay on of things so it goes away put tons of steel wool in holes after moving in, they chewed new holes right beside, i kept filling with seel wool they mostly left them alone but i found one where they'd gotten through blocked it again with steel wool and wood heard it scratching and biting to get back in last night i am sure it has another way out i don't want it to be stuck in the wall 120625 ... n o m trying to stay on top of things 120625 ... PeeT a perpetual issue at robin_hill, yet we do possess an oriental cat named nico who is picking off babies one by one which fortunately keeps the population down. 120626 ... tender_square he used to drink at night in the tecumseh dump when he was underage. his older brother would come along, and some other neighbourhood boys, and they'd have a case of beers. it was so dark. they heard rustling during their conversations and realized they were surrounded by rats. hundreds of them. and even though there was very little light, they could see the glint of the rats' beady eyes among the trash heaps. 230307 ... raze "they're the only animal we get in my neighbourhood," he said. "i say live and let live. they don't bother me. i never see them. but one of my neighbours saw one on her porch and called the city, so they put the poison out. killed about ten of them. not that it made much difference. they're not going anywhere. just like humans aren't going anywhere — as much as some of them should." 231005 what's it to you? who go blather from