Thursday, October 21, 2010

The rats are back

I found some disturbing remnants of rat in unexpected places today.  The worst one was some little muddy footprints on the bottom of the upside down clean mugs on the dish towel (left out last night to dry).  The second worst one was the little muddy footprints on my bar of soap at the bathroom sink.  Thing about the bathroom sink one is that it's a pedestal sink, so I think the little guy must have either come up or down the brick wall to check out my bar of soap.  Which means that he's probably one of the many creatures I've been hearing in my ceiling.  I don't like it that they're venturing down again. 

My housemate isn't around to set the traps (or, more importantly, empty the traps, so I'm not quite sure what to do if I get over-run!  Zane's been doing a good job in keeping the creatures at bay, but it's been a while since they've been making forays down from the ceiling and actually into the house, so he's a little out of practice!  But I hope he gets back INTO practice before the rats start eating my stuff again :(

2 comments:

Aunty Beth said...

Weren't the borax balls supposed to help with this?

Tanya said...

Borax balls were for the cockroaches, which are very much under control :) But the rats... they're getting a bit OUT of control :(