A Damn Mouse

[rebel heart]

Originally Posted by Celestialsailor

Freudian slip?

I wish. Can't roll the dice on that stuff down here. In dad/husband mode in a foreign country. Would probably make this whole rat thing a lot easier to handle.

[donradcliffe]

Tastes like chicken...

[sww914]

I have a dumb uncle. You probably do too but maybe not this dumb. We were living way out in the country, the nearest house was a mile away and town was 30 miles away. We had a rat living under the bathtub who had eluded capture. Uncle Mikey decided to shoot the rat. Some folks would have chosen a pellet gun or even a 22, but not Mike. He got a lawn chair, a beer, and his 44 Magnum and camped out in the bathroom waiting for the rat to show his little rate face through the hole next to the bottom corner of the bathtub.
After an hour and a half, Mr Rat peeked out. Mikey aimed and then BOOM!
He pulled the shot a little bit and blew a hole right through the bathtub and the concussion cracked the bathroom window and Mikey's ears rang for 2 days. I suspect that Mr Rat's ears rang as well.
So, the moral of the story is, well there seem to be several morals to this story.

[capngeo]

I use the poison that makes them thirsty... they go on shore to look for water and usually die. I lived 5 years in a slip right next to a restaurant.... I became a rat extermination expert! I even bought a dozen of those black plastic bait stations and scattered them around the marina. They breed faster than any trap can keep up with.

BTW once a trap has a kill, throw it away, they can smell their dead uncle bergovoy and will steer clear.

[Red Charlotte]

sww914 - your story cracked me up!

Minaret - trust me, I want to get the vermin OFF of the boat but I don't want to be cruel. My top priority is my 2 year old on board and then my soon to be born infant. I'm in hyper nesting mode and I'm sure it is stressing Eric out that I'm stressed out.

I'm on partial bed rest so I am rarely away from the boat for long. While we do have a few sticky traps out I don't think a rat would have enough time to gnaw a body part off without my knowing about it (hearing it.) As soon as we know one is trapped, Eric will dispatch with it (as humanely as possible) forthwith.

[sww914]

Thanks Charlotte.
We're almost there! We're in Cabo for a couple more days and when the weather is right we'll shoot across to Vallarta. We haven't decided where in the bay yet but we'll see you again soon.

[JRM]

When I was younger we used to get huge rats in the house. Every time the fields were plowed, they'd come looking for greener pastures. Got to be pretty good at dispatching them. A few suggestions...

You've got to secure the traps. We'd tie them down. If you don't kill them outright they can crawl off dragging the trap. Also, one night I thought Armageddon had come, but it was just a trap squeezed between the furnace and the wall. The rat was caught but not dead, and all the thrashing was turning the furnace into a bass drum. Stupid thing managed to get all the way behind the furnace before he shuffled off his mortal coil.

You can trap them but don't "trap" them. One time the dog cornered a big one under my mom's china hutch. I could see him under there. I got the bright idea to starve him, so I pushed the hutch up against the wall and trapped him under it. Freaking rat ate a hole through mom's best furniture. She was ***pissed***!

At any rate, I do hope he vacates forthwith. Better all around for everyone.

JRM

[bobconnie]

Connie just reminded me we have been useing shrimp for bait down here and we been gettin em good !! havent had one since a week after the last Hurrycane LOL Got 6 in one week !! just sayin if the mexican rats don't like peanut butter try shrimp, everything eats shrimp

[s/v Beth]

Originally Posted by bobconnie

Connie just reminded me we have been useing shrimp for bait down here and we been gettin em good !! havent had one since a week after the last Hurrycane LOL Got 6 in one week !! just sayin if the mexican rats don't like peanut butter try shrimp, everything eats shrimp

What did I say about sushi??

[David_Old_Jersey]

All this talk of violence at Xmas makes me sad .

I think the Rat should first be offered counselling .

[Seaworthy Lass]

Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey

All this talk of violence at Xmas makes me sad .

I think the Rat should first be offered counselling .

Offering him/her a home David? Adoption papers are on the way .

[David_Old_Jersey]

Originally Posted by Seaworthy Lass

Offering him/her a home David? Adoption papers are on the way .

Nope. Been there, done that - didn't end so well for the mouse........

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...use-73690.html

[Seaworthy Lass]

Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey

Nope. Been there, done that - didn't end so well for the mouse........

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/...use-73690.html

Oh, David, that thread needs an R rating for the violence depicted .

Still recovering from shock here after seeing your photo. May take years to get over that image .
I am not that far removed from the four year old I once was, who when taken to see a Disney movie, screamed the theatre down when Bambi's mother was killed in the opening scenes. That scarred me for life!!!
PS Did the mouse get three written warnings before the sentence?

[Snore]

Rebel,

If you still have not heard your new guests moving around, they may have been afronted by your lack of hospitality and left.

This might be the best time to take Mark's suggestion and rig rat guards on all the mooring lines.

Bill

[rebel heart]

Update:

Little bastard snagged on a sticky trap. Fur and fuzz all over it; it was baited with peanut butter. He also managed to eat the peanut butter off of the mechanical traps, licking them clean. These were traps set so delicately that I needed to use pliers when setting them.

The sticky trap worked, sort of. I doubt it did mortal damage. He basically managed to flip it upside down then wiggled over to a crack that the trap wouldn't fit down but he could. And yeah, there was a line tied to it.