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post #21 of 56
10/27/10 at 7:18pm
I'm not sure where you are, but here it's the time of year where it's starting to get cold and critters will try to come inside to warm up.

We always catch rodents in our house this time of year, and not at all the rest of the year, so I know they're coming in from outside and not setting up shop on a permanent basis.
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post #22 of 56
10/27/10 at 8:20pm
Yeah, definetly just jumped in... Up till this spring we had a constant (small) leak in one water line in a closet. For, oh, 26 *YEARS* my dad simply kept a 5 gallon bucket underneath that he occasionally emptied... and there was quite frequently a dead mouse in it "It was a great mouse trap!" he once told me We had our bathroom redone this spring an while they were here the plumber's fixed the leak SO, no more bucket in the closet
post #23 of 56
10/27/10 at 8:30pm
And, on a side note, that article on cracked.com is freaking craazy.
post #24 of 56
10/27/10 at 10:32pm
As a mom of a potty learning toddler, my first thought was "hope her ds was able to find someplace okay to pee." But I guess a 5 year old can hold it longer.
post #25 of 56
10/27/10 at 10:36pm
I grew up on a farm and frequently saw rats drowned in the horses' water buckets. :Puke

But about two weeks ago we saw a WASP inside my bedroom toilet. Luckily, it was daytime and I happened to look before I sat down. Now, I always turn on the light and look!
post #26 of 56
10/28/10 at 8:55pm
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Update

Guess. what. Last night I obsessively checked all the floorboards in the rooms to check for rodent droppings, and instead I found some kind of larvae under our beds. DH looked it up today and WE HAVE BEDBUGS!!!!!!!!! I'm so horrified. Maybe the rat/mouse was a blessing in disguise b/c with how crazy my life is right now I never would have looked so closely at the floors and it would have gone on even longer undetected. So now we have to have major operations to figure out how to eradicate these, if that's even possible

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Originally Posted by sapphire_chan View Post
As a mom of a potty learning toddler, my first thought was "hope her ds was able to find someplace okay to pee." But I guess a 5 year old can hold it longer.
Awwwww, that is so sweet! This morning he was up, and asked me if he was allowed to go to the bathroom this morning because he had been holding it. Poor thing.
post #27 of 56
10/28/10 at 9:04pm
Before you freak out, check and see if they might be carpet beetles.
post #28 of 56
10/28/10 at 11:29pm
just to weigh in on the rat swimming in the sewer thing, I used to live in Tacoma, WA and this is common-ish there. It never happened to me, but its certainly not unheard of.

and as far as a rat not bothering you in your bed, and this is not suitable for most people so I will post it in a hard to read color. just highlight it if you want to read something really really disturbing.
a friend of mine had her baby sleeping in a crib in another room and she heard him crying and when she finally went in, a rat had been gnawing on his face. just another reason not to CIO i guess..
post #29 of 56
10/29/10 at 11:02am
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Originally Posted by MadiMamacita View Post
just to weigh in on the rat swimming in the sewer thing, I used to live in Tacoma, WA and this is common-ish there. It never happened to me, but its certainly not unheard of.

and as far as a rat not bothering you in your bed, and this is not suitable for most people so I will post it in a hard to read color. just highlight it if you want to read something really really disturbing.
a friend of mine had her baby sleeping in a crib in another room and she heard him crying and when she finally went in, a rat had been gnawing on his face. just another reason not to CIO i guess..
This is making me FREAK OUT!!! Our DS has always (and still does) sleep with us, so never in that situation, but my kid is at daycare right now and this story makes me want to go over there and kiss his cheeks!! (Luckily his Halloween parade is in an hour so I can do just that.) When will I ever learn that no matter how curious I am it is never worth it to highlight the text!!
post #30 of 56
10/29/10 at 12:09pm
Without me even mentioning this post, dh was talking to our plumber yesterday, who was telling him that rats do climb up waste pipes and get into toilets. Especially at this time of year when it's starting to get cold. They only have to hold their breath briefly to go around the water trap in the toilet. Most of the pipe is empty most of the time, especially at night when no one's washing dishes, hands, showering, doing laundry, flushing toilets, etc for hours at a time.
post #31 of 56
10/29/10 at 2:14pm
I'm moving somewhere they don't have rats.

Oh, wait.
post #32 of 56
10/29/10 at 2:19pm
yeahwhat, yep. there is really only water in one bend of pipe, so that it keeps sewer smells from coming in.

bri, rats flee a sinking ship, right? is that the only place to be safe from them? can anyone thing of another place? maybe Antarctica?
post #33 of 56
10/29/10 at 3:20pm
Well, at least I have two cats. We used to live in a duplex that had a really old dirt basement, and it was infested. We'd come up the driveway at night and our headlights would shine on the rat's eyes. Poison worked with only limited success- but we never saw a rat or even dropping anywhere in the living areas of the house and I credit the two cats to that, not because they killed any but because the rats knew they were there and stayed out of their way.
post #34 of 56
10/29/10 at 11:08pm
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Originally Posted by New_Natural_Mom View Post
When will I ever learn that no matter how curious I am it is never worth it to highlight the text!!
sorry!
post #35 of 56
10/30/10 at 1:24am
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Originally Posted by Lady Lilya View Post
yeahwhat, yep. there is really only water in one bend of pipe, so that it keeps sewer smells from coming in.

bri, rats flee a sinking ship, right? is that the only place to be safe from them? can anyone thing of another place? maybe Antarctica?
The province of Alberta (Canada) prides itself on not having rats within its borders. Don't ask me how, given that as far as I know there are rats in the provinces on either side, but a *big* deal is made of this status.

Wiki says: Alberta is the only province in Canada—as well as one of the few places in the world—that is free of Norwegian rats.[13] Since the early 1950s, the government of Alberta has operated a rat-control program, which has been so successful that only isolated instances of wild rat sightings are reported, usually of rats arriving in the province aboard trucks or by rail. In 2006, Alberta Agriculture reports zero findings of wild rats; the only rat interceptions have been domesticated rats that have been seized from their owners. It is illegal for individual Albertans to own or keep Norwegian rats of any description; the animals can be kept in the province by only zoos, universities and colleges, and recognized research institutions. In 2009, several rats were found and captured, in small pockets in Southern Alberta,[14] putting Alberta's rat-free status in jeopardy.

I live in Yukon (Canada) and can only find references to pet rats in the territory. Wiki does say that rats do not live in the antarctic or arctic, but I'm not sure if they mean here or not - I'm about 7 hours south of the arctic circle, and so it's generally officially considered to be 'subarctic'.

Erica
post #36 of 56
10/30/10 at 5:00pm
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Originally Posted by Mama Mko View Post
I heard a story on NPR about a rat that did swim up from the sewer into someone's toilet.

Freaky stuff!
We had some uncapped pipe to the sewer when we moved in and are pretty sure that's how we got a rat. Haven't had one since capping the pipe 30 years ago.
post #37 of 56
10/30/10 at 5:22pm
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glad I had my grass-fed, raw lamb's liver in my smoothie this morning.
Are you serious? I'm going to have to get that. Where do you get yours? Would it be available frozen?
post #38 of 56
10/30/10 at 6:38pm
Yeah, rats will bite you while you sleep. My mom was in a work camp during WWII, and the rats would run over their beds and bite her and her sisters at night.
post #39 of 56
10/30/10 at 10:03pm
My mother and I temporarily lived in a place (about 5 days). After we moved out, she said she woke up and saw a packrat tugging at my hair. She didn't tell me because she didn't want me to freak out. (I was in my late twenties - we had gotten together for "grand adventures, which we had.) Lest anyone freak out, I need to point out that the house was in the country, had not been lived in, and was far from finished. It also had a skunk that would come in at night. I heard it and went into the bathroom. It was in the bathtub and was not happy about me being in its house.

Cats and, I understand, rat terriers are good animals to have around. Because cats are not friendly to their prey, rodents learn to stay away from areas where cat smell is.

I would leave a small light on in the bathroom at night. If it freaks you or your children out to think of a rat/mouse in the toilet, perhaps you could keep a stick there to rap on the lid before you open it (assuming you keep the top lid closed).
post #40 of 56
11/3/10 at 8:02pm
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It is bad eough I have to dodge legos and possible cat puke during the night. Now I have to think about something biting me on the behind.
no kidding huh? now i'm all freaked out and will be squatting to pee. at least my quads will thank me in a few weeks.
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