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The first time in my life that I live with rats - (May/30/2007 )

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I grew up in a big city and I've been living in a concrete apartment (9th floor) since I was a kid. My apartment was so clean that it barely had any ant or fly. Now I'm studying abroad and have to live in a very very old house. Yesterday morning when I open my eyes I saw a rat sit on my curtain. A big, black one. I can't believe my eyes but it is real. My roomates are vegetarian and are against on killing the rats. The rats were well protected in my house and they enjoy cat food everyday and become very big and strong. And the cat was sleeping well with rats running around. I've already had enough stress in lab in the daytime. But when I go back home I have to chop in a kitchen that smells and cook on a stove that was full of rat droppings (1cm each). And I can sleep well because I can't stop thinking about the rat problem. I can't eat and sleep well so that I'm tired and my experiment is going really slowly and badly.

Is there anyone had experience with rats before?

-Telmimore-

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I'm sorry for your situation...
...ehm no chance to find another place to stay?

I can't believe your roommates are feeding rats and let them behave as hause pets!!!
This is quite insane, but the worst thing is for sure the lack of hygene: rat droppings in the kitchen next to your food?????
My suggestion is: run away as soon as you can, or - at least - change roommates (rats included)!!!
Good luck!

-ila-

my lab got a lot of rats... eating all the chemicals/broth/agar that kept in the cabinet. they only come out at night. there is one nite, i was inside the lab, sitting in front of the computer to do something. a big fat rat ran accross the lab (my friend shout) and climb (ya, rats can climb the wall, against gravity), into a hole on the roof... scared me!!!

-sanjiun81-

QUOTE (Telmimore @ May 31 2007, 08:45 AM)
And the cat was sleeping well with rats running around.


What kind of cat is that?? tongue.gif
A cat allowing rats to eat its food! that´s incredible wacko.gif

It doesn´t mind of you are vegetarian or not, you have to be minimally clean! mellow.gif and wild rats can trasmit diseases, they shouldn´t be going on their own along the whole house. And cooking with their droppings around, this is the last straw.
It´s not my business, but I wouldn´t live there anymore if your roomates don´t want to keep away from rats. If you live in an old house in the country it´s normal to see some rat but... living with them inside the house! Sorry, may be I´m very radical but, definitely, I couldn´t live there anymore. As you, I couldn´t sleep if I think that there is a rat walking along all my stuff in the room, my food, toilet...

-Pumuki-

personally i would poison them but if that is impossible you can at least train them
- close all doors at night
- block up small holes in the walls
- leave NO food out for them (that includes rubbish in bags, dirty plates and especially cat food - a hungry cat might also do his job better)
- look up on the internet the various diseases you can get from rats and get colour pictures (even vegetarians can be trained)

it worked for me (dirty neighbours not veggy flatmates)

dom

-Dominic-

If it's not possible to move to somewhere else or change your roommates, you can maybe change the cat! (jocking smile.gif) Sorry, I think your roommates are weird but not as weird as the cat smile.gif

OR, I don't know if you have them there but here there's something sticky, like a glue, sold in the market. You spread it on a piece of thick and hard carton paper and in the middle you put some food that the animal likes (cheese, meat or in your case cat food). It's some kind of a trap but you don't have to kill the animal. You just catch it and then take it to somewhere else (maybe a galaxy far, far away).

I don't guarantee it however. I had a mouse at home and I tried that several times but the animal was way smarter than I, so it avoided the trap every time. But you have nothing to lose now, do you?

Good luck smile.gif

-jahan-

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there is one nite, i was inside the lab, sitting in front of the computer to do something. a big fat rat ran accross the lab (my friend shout) and climb (ya, rats can climb the wall, against gravity), into a hole on the roof... scared me!!!
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And the cat was sleeping well with rats running around

this is reminds me with one Tom & Jerry cartoon show , tongue.gif tongue.gif

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leave NO food out for them (that includes rubbish in bags, dirty plates and especially cat food - a hungry cat might also do his job better)


good suggestion, this will force the cat to search for its food independently smile.gif


i suggest that you change the room if possibe, or at least get these rats outside

-strawberry-

Wild rats if feels threatened bites.

Strawberry, Jerry is a mouse not a rat wink.gif

-Nabin-

both are rodents!! smile.gif

-strawberry-

Some rat poison will do the job, silent and inconspicuous. They just disappear after some time (or develop a resistance glare.gif ) and nobody is guilty wink.gif .

-hobglobin-

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