Reply to: Rat almost ran up my trouser leg

[Diver]

Do rat-traps work on squirrels, or do you have to get squirrel traps?

.177 air rifle is best, the .22 don't penetrate half the time at distance

[AtW]

Do rat-traps work on squirrels, or do you have to get squirrel traps?

Stop picking on my cute fluffy squirrels you barstewards!

[d000hg]

Why can't I be overrun with squirrels instead, like AtW?

Do rat-traps work on squirrels, or do you have to get squirrel traps?

[d000hg]

One of my cohort got a pregnant rat and it was awful.

I actually read that as "got a rat pregnant" and was starting a reply before I realised.

[BrilloPad]

Our cat ensures we never have problems with rats. Or squirrels.

[RSoles]

Rats are very intelligent creatures.

I once set out some rat poison in a small dish in a cellar. Next day the buggers had covered the poison with a pile of small stones. They did the same the next day FFS.

...And this is before they evolve into Rattus Sapiens (a la Doomwatch).

I finally got rid of them by filling in their runs with broken glass and 'offed' one unlucky one with a mallet.

[Bagpuss]

Put two traps out first thing this morning, with a slice of fruitcake on each, and half an hour later - SNAP!

I rushed out to check. But the cake had gone, with the trap snapped shut, and no sign of a rat!

A short while after that, there was another snapping noise. But again, no sign of the cake or any rat!

WTF is going on? I suppose next I'll have to set up a webcam to see how they are getting away with it!

Or perhaps I'll try several traps close together, like a classic special forces antipersonnel mine pattern - Dodge one, and the crafty sods will hop straight onto the next.

Everyone knows the most "efficient" way to a foxes to get some men on horseback and some dogs to chase after them. Perhaps they could switch to rats?

[OwlHoot]

Put two traps out first thing this morning, with a slice of fruitcake on each, and half an hour later - SNAP!

I rushed out to check. But the cake had gone, with the trap snapped shut, and no sign of a rat!

A short while after that, there was another snapping noise. But again, no sign of the cake or any rat!

WTF is going on? I suppose next I'll have to set up a webcam to see how they are getting away with it!

Or perhaps I'll try several traps close together, like a classic special forces antipersonnel mine pattern - Dodge one, and the crafty sods will hop straight onto the next.

[Diver]

And someone always has to bring it back down to gutter level

Cat

[norrahe]

I knew a woman once, a mouse ran up her leg.

Her pussy ate it

And someone always has to bring it back down to gutter level

[Diver]

I knew a woman once, a mouse ran up her leg.

Her pussy ate it

[conned tractor]

Obvious joke alert!!!

Was you wearing drainpipes?

[RichardCranium]

A Level Biology - sometimes it was a rat, sometimes a dogfish.

In O level Biology we had to dissect a fish, after that I refused to do any more. Watching Timothy running around flicking fish eyes at thegirls was too much. There was a frog and a small mammal - I simply refused.

In O level Physics we had to take in a bull's eyeball and dissect that. I did not take one in (many didn't) and tried to stay but the smell was too much.

In A level Chemistry on compulsory experiment (it went towards your grade) was chopping up fresh liver and dropping it in hydrogen peroxide to watch it fizz. Again, I refused.



One of the many reasons I went into IT.

[xoggoth]

Pah. Rats can tell the difference even between my trouser leg and a sewer entrance.

[NotAllThere]

We did various dissections at age 12 and 13. Locust, earthworm, rat and bull's eye. Only the silly shrieking girlies (of either sex) had a problem.