The joys of country living.....EEEEEEEEK !

why oh why are you enternaining rats, cos maybe, just maybe you are leaving scraps of food etc., to entice them !!!!

Ooh how horrid Merlot!

No, I couldn't do rats. We find toads, frogs and slugs coming in our back door, but not rats. Probably having the cat helps.

Only the other day my friend was moaning that their new shower wasn't draining away: I can't tell her this story.

I'll have one eye on the trap when I have a shower tonight that's for sure.

DH is fishing so I phoned to inform him of my near heart failure and all he said was, 'Told you it couldn't possibly be a design fault!!'

GAH!

Eek that is a nasty shock to find for sure. I am no fan of rats, but a couple of years ago we had a nest at the bottom of the garden. I actually saw the babies all running onto the bird table and sliding down the pole in the middle again and again. They looked so cute and were having fun just as all young creatures do.
We stopped feeding the birds for a while, kept an eye out that they didn't come close to the house, and after a few weeks they moved on of their own accord :-)While all this rat activity playground was going on our Dog would just lie further up the garden sunbathing and watching!!

I would still be vomiting a week later!!!

EEEEEEEK! Indeed. I thought you were going to post about some sort of insect, especially as I've just had some sort of revolting hinged wasp flying around the living room.
I speak as someone who tried to convince herself that the 'birds' on the roof in the early hours of the morning, wore hob-nailed boots.

That wasn't what I said, Jane

Awwww. The poor wee thing!

Oh yuk and double yuk!

Not just country living, there are plenty of urban rats.
Yuck !

I'm struggling to think of anything that would frighten me more. Shower trap cleaning is definitely not for me!

merlot! . That is unthinkably horrible! You poor thing.

My neighbour feeds the birds a lot, she has a stone wall in which the rats nest. She caught 7 in her traps last week - she would shoot them if she was allowed!