This was my not so pleasant wake up call this morning the other morning.
Let me back up a bit…the last “rat” update I sent out we had killed 4 rats in our house using various methods. We thought that we had gotten rid of all the rats and we even had our landlord put new screens on the whole house. This was great because there were no longer rat holes in all of our screens, but sadly our excitement lasted only a few short weeks. It was truly a sad day when we woke up to find a hole in the screen in our kitchen and even sadder when 2 blocks of poison disappeared over the next 2 days…now it was a waiting game until the next one showed up dead.
Let me back up a bit…the last “rat” update I sent out we had killed 4 rats in our house using various methods. We thought that we had gotten rid of all the rats and we even had our landlord put new screens on the whole house. This was great because there were no longer rat holes in all of our screens, but sadly our excitement lasted only a few short weeks. It was truly a sad day when we woke up to find a hole in the screen in our kitchen and even sadder when 2 blocks of poison disappeared over the next 2 days…now it was a waiting game until the next one showed up dead.
The hole in our brand new screens...sad!
The 5th rat died a slow (and kind of sad) death in our kitchen after we covered him with a basin. The 6th rat was the one pictured above in my shower…I decided this morning that I prefer to have the rats alive because then I can ignore them and forget they are there (that is until the scurry across the floor in front of me) so I don’t think we are going to put any more poison out. But that could all change the next time I see one! More “rat” updates to follow…
Just in case you are interested…we have a lot of other critters living in our house besides the rats. We had a termite infestation the other week and they were billowing out of an old chair (it was like a horror movie…), we get frogs that come up our drains, we sometimes have flying cockroaches, we recently have had several millipedes and centipedes because of the rain and last but certainly not least was a spider in our sink the other morning…I simply put a cup over it and left it for someone else to dispose of (we actually took it to the science teacher at school who said we should have left it in the house because it ate mosquitoes…no thanks!)
The spider that we found in our sink...
The frogs that sometimes come up our sink...this one we found in a cupboard...
The pile of dead termintes after they billowed from the chair and we sprayed them with lots of Doom...they dont look like much but there really were hundreds of them...they shrivelled up from the Doom. 
And finally the flying cockroaches which we thankfully have not seen in a while. I just realized that I don't have a picture of millipedes...I will get one next time we have one!All I can say is there is never a dull moment living here!
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3 comments:
Oh my fellow housemate,why does it seem that most of the excitement in our house revolves around interesting critteres :) I share in your feelings of finding a dead rat in the shower. Even though I wasn't brave enough to touch the one in my shower or yours, I share in the unpleasant shock of seeing that when you're not fully awake yet :) I'm ok with the live rats as long as I don't see them. If I see another live one though, I think I might be ready for more poison. :) I have a feeling that the saga will continue . . .
you know, this almost made me miss Tanzania. ALMOST. hehehe... :-) I feel as though your bravery level has vastly increased since the day of spider-related screaming. :-)
The bravery level has increased a lot since that first year...probably more out of necessity than anything else!
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