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There's a rat in the kitchen what am I gonna do?

  • 21-03-2017 11:42am
    #1
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭


    Well more specifically he was in the bathroom and bedroom but since the walls don't go all the way to the ceilings in Indian houses he was more than likely in the kitchen and living room too.

    So advice please. Do I leave India and go somewhere a little less filthy or do I suck it up and stay?

    Any tips on trying to keep the feckers out when there are holes in your roof and walls?


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  • #2
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Marry the rat.....


  • #3
    jester77
    Registered Users Posts: 11,262 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Just hang this outside your door


  • #4
    Vico1612
    Registered Users Posts: 915 ✭✭✭Vico1612


    Call UB40 ?


  • #5
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Firstly, you need to name your new pet.


  • #6
    hungry hypno toad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 646 ✭✭✭hungry hypno toad


    Is this an Indian rat or an Irish rat?


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  • #7
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    Burn the house down. It's the only way.


  • #8
    Teddington Cuddlesworth
    Registered Users Posts: 315 ✭✭Teddington Cuddlesworth


    Snitches get stitches, remind him of that.


  • #9
    givyjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 3,287 ✭✭✭givyjoe


    Get yourself 4 pet turtles and some green ooze..


  • #10
    selwyn froggitt
    Registered Users Posts: 475 ✭✭selwyn froggitt


    hungry hypno toad wrote: »
    Is this an Indian rat or an Irish rat?

    A siberian hamster?


  • #11
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Are you anyway near Rajasthan, you could take it to the rat temple there.


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  • #12
    osarusan
    Registered Users Posts: 16,544 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/1d/2c/2a/1d2c2adab1de2062aa51de4608724dac.jpg

    home-made rat trap.

    Get a bin or deep bucket, run a piece of heavy wire (like a clothes hanger) across the middle of it through two holes drilled near the top. That wire also runs through a cylinder (like a plastic bottle with holes in the top and bottom). The cylinder spins pretty easily on the wire under any kind of pressure.

    You coat the cylinder with some tasty rat treat, and put enough water into the bin to drown a rat. You also give the rat some way of getting to the top of the bin.

    Rat gets to top of bin, tries to get treat, puts weight on cylinder which then spins, falls into bin, drowns.


  • #13
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Fix it.


  • #14
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Witchie wrote: »
    Well more specifically he was in the bathroom and bedroom but since the walls don't go all the way to the ceilings in Indian houses he was more than likely in the kitchen and living room too.

    So advice please. Do I leave India and go somewhere a little less filthy or do I suck it up and stay?

    Any tips on trying to keep the feckers out when there are holes in your roof and walls?

    What a panic.. Traps are good. and keep food and dishes closed in. Rats are only critters.


  • #15
    beertons
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,055 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Get the loan of a cat for a week or 2.


  • #16
    Lady Spangles
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭Lady Spangles


    Witchie wrote: »

    So advice please. Do I leave India and go somewhere a little less filthy or do I suck it up and stay?

    Oh please, I live in Belfast (a well known utopia of cleanliness and hygiene) and I had a rat in my kitchen. We laid out four trays of rat bait to kill the little fvcker and he ate all of them. Scarfed the lot down and still lived. We ended up calling him "Ratsputin".

    Anyway, yeah. You could try bait, you could try hitting it with a big stick. Fact is, they usually find a way in regardless. Good luck!


  • #17
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Mod-Advocating extreme cruelty will not be tolerated. There are very humane ways of getting rid of them.


  • #18
    Winterlong
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,759 ✭✭✭Winterlong


    If cruelty is not allowed then send the rat a strongly worded letter asking him to either leave or start paying rent.


  • #19
    Ken.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,898 ✭✭✭✭Ken.


    Winterlong wrote: »
    If cruelty is not allowed then send the rat a strongly worded letter asking him to either leave or start paying rent.

    I just woke my cat with a snort of laughter.

    winston_churchill_hat_raise_Fotor.jpg


  • #20
    percy212
    Registered Users Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭percy212


    Good advice. Should send them running quick smart.
    beertons wrote: »
    Get the loan of a cat for a week or 2.


  • #21
    Graces7
    Registered Users Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Lady Spangles wrote: »
    Oh please, I live in Belfast (a well known utopia of cleanliness and hygiene) and I had a rat in my kitchen. We laid out four trays of rat bait to kill the little fvcker and he ate all of them. Scarfed the lot down and still lived. We ended up calling him "Ratsputin".

    Anyway, yeah. You could try bait, you could try hitting it with a big stick. Fact is, they usually find a way in regardless. Good luck!

    Poison. they go away and die a horrible death and sometimes stink the place out.. traps; you know they are dead then and it is fast.

    I once had a large rat in the roof in one cottage. Used to come in through where i had pulled the rotten dresser out and steal food from the deaf cat.

    I changed things round and left my young cat in that room... Around 2 am I was woken by thuds and screams....carefully opened the door with a prayer.... there was my young cat, shaking head to foot and on the bloodstained ground a huge, huge dead rat.

    Took it outside on the shovel and took the cat to bed with me with a tin of tuna...

    All the other rats? Ran off up the drive waving a white flag ..;)

    witchie. face the rat situation! Get a trap and make sure all the food and dishes cannot be touched and get a lot of bleach.

    OK?
    OK!


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  • #22
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,679 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Make friends with the little dude. Henrietta the rat. Or Harold.

    :)


  • #23
    Rubberlegs
    Registered Users Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Make friends with the little dude. Henrietta the rat. Or Harold.

    :)

    Yes, good advice :). I never used to like spiders but I found if I gave them a name and said hello to them that they didn't bother me as much. I don't mind them now.


  • #24
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Burn the house down as you run a huge risk of weils disease which can kill.


  • #25
    vicwatson
    Registered Users Posts: 28,403 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    You're gonna fix that rat that's what ya gonna do !


  • #26
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Jack the Stripper wrote: »
    Burn the house down as you run a huge risk of weils disease which can kill.

    Nah, drinking a can of coke sorts that out.


  • #27
    moonlighting
    Closed Accounts Posts: 470 ✭✭moonlighting




  • #28
    Jack the Stripper
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,203 ✭✭✭Jack the Stripper


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Nah, drinking a can of coke sorts that out.

    This is no time to be a funny man.


  • #29
    ZeitgeistGlee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭ZeitgeistGlee


    Find out if he cooks.


  • #30
    s4uv3
    Registered Users Posts: 952 ✭✭✭s4uv3


    Boom_Bap wrote: »
    Are you anyway near Rajasthan, you could take it to the rat temple there.

    Oh jesus the memories of that place :(
    I was proper disturbed after it.


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  • #31
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,730 Mod ✭✭✭✭Boom_Bap


    Jack the Stripper wrote: »
    This is no time to be a funny man.

    It's not a joke, a home prevention of Wiels is drinking a can of coke :D


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