Originally Posted by
cigar no baka
We got rats in our attic. I fucking HATE rats and mice.
So every night I put out dog food for the dogs, and eventually they finish eating and go find someplace to sleep in the yard. I wait about 30 minutes, then I burst out the back door with my rat-catcher broom. They rush up the chimney; I use the broom to pin one of them to the brick, then with the other hand I use my rat-tongs to grab them by the tail.
Then it's whappity-whappityp-whap on the brick till they stop moving. I then submerge them in a bucket of scummy rain water (I keep another bucket of fresh water for the dogs) till they stop wriggling. Then its toss into the compost heap, and rinse and repeat the next night. Eventually I'll get most of them and the rest will move on to an less dangerous neighborhood.
I mused over using a gun, but my wife freaks out when I say I'm going to start plinking rats with my 22 rifle in the back yard. Awww crap, I never get to have any fun any more.