[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by enthused

The only thing that grosses me out more than mice are rats. Frig. So gross.
When I was living in Victoria, the hugest rat I have ever seen got into my house, and it seriously took months to get rid of it. I could always hear it running around at night... through the vents, across the kitchen floor, everywhere. I was always so scared so I'd lock myself in my room and put a towel across the crack between the door and the floor just to make sure it couldn't get in.

At first my roomates and I tried to catch it with one of those humane traps so we could just put it outside somewhere after. But it wasn't working, so we started setting up these massive wooden traps. But it was so big that it always managed to get the cheese or peanut butter out of the trap, and even if the trap snapped on him, he was such a beast that it wouldn't kill him. Finally we had to set poison blocks around the house. He seriously ate like 10 of them, and it still took weeks for him to finally die. The worst part was that once he died, we couldn't find the body... we could only smell it. A few weeks later, my roomate was wasted and fell into a counter, and moved it away from the wall... only to discover dead ratty.

I'm still shuddering even thinking about it. Did I mention that I hate rats?

Man that thing sounds like a real beast. I wonder what he was eating... in your house...