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Right after dad and I sold the old house, literally the day after the
closing, I hear this scratching sound in the roof above my head. I'm thinking bird or squirrel - whatever it was was nocturnal, 4AM I'd hear it. Annoying as hell, so I kept a stick close to the bed and bang on the ceiling - I figured if they could make noise so could I. Never mentioned it to the buyer, she wouldn't have believed me that it happened day after closing. About a month after moving, I found out what was in the ceiling - a family of four raccoons. They got up into the chimney, which apparently was falling apart, and got into the ceiling that way. Not quite sure what happened after that, girl that was renting moved out before lease was up - said raccoons would sit out on deck and watch her, wouldn't even run. She was afraid her daughter would get bit, so she moved out- landlord wouldn't do anything about the extra borders. Whatever is living in your house - get an exterminator and someone to look and fix where the little buggers are coming in at. Not only do you have to worry about diseases and things - they could chew through electrical wiring and cause a fire. Best of luck! "Bev" wrote in message ... Over three days B and C have developed a fixation with the ceiling in the corner of the lounge. At first I thought they were looking at a creepy crawly of some kind - and then I heard it, scuffle, scuffle, munch, munch, rattle rattle. Rats!!!!!!! We have never had a rat in our house and never in the ceiling!! It was time to get out the humane rat trap. I had to throw everything out of my untidy linen cupboard for John to climb up into the roof with the trap. No mean feat. Then from the recesses of the roof was a lot of cursing. "Those bloody cats". Neither of us had noticed that B and C had discovered a whole new world when they leapt up into the loft after John. Normally there is a cover over the opening to the loft. We rationalized. Perhaps two four legged exterminators would be just the thing for routing rats! Rats hate the smell of cats. But OMG, perhaps we will never get the cats down! I had visions of us both scrambling around in the loft. We will place the humane trap up in the loft later. This saga is far from finished. THEY are still in the loft and ominously silent. I'll keep you posted -- Bev The email of the species is more deadly than the mail. PS Have just rung Ted - HELP |
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Right after dad and I sold the old house, literally the day after the
closing, I hear this scratching sound in the roof above my head. I'm thinking bird or squirrel - whatever it was was nocturnal, 4AM I'd hear it. Annoying as hell, so I kept a stick close to the bed and bang on the ceiling - I figured if they could make noise so could I. Never mentioned it to the buyer, she wouldn't have believed me that it happened day after closing. About a month after moving, I found out what was in the ceiling - a family of four raccoons. They got up into the chimney, which apparently was falling apart, and got into the ceiling that way. Not quite sure what happened after that, girl that was renting moved out before lease was up - said raccoons would sit out on deck and watch her, wouldn't even run. She was afraid her daughter would get bit, so she moved out- landlord wouldn't do anything about the extra borders. Whatever is living in your house - get an exterminator and someone to look and fix where the little buggers are coming in at. Not only do you have to worry about diseases and things - they could chew through electrical wiring and cause a fire. Best of luck! "Bev" wrote in message ... Over three days B and C have developed a fixation with the ceiling in the corner of the lounge. At first I thought they were looking at a creepy crawly of some kind - and then I heard it, scuffle, scuffle, munch, munch, rattle rattle. Rats!!!!!!! We have never had a rat in our house and never in the ceiling!! It was time to get out the humane rat trap. I had to throw everything out of my untidy linen cupboard for John to climb up into the roof with the trap. No mean feat. Then from the recesses of the roof was a lot of cursing. "Those bloody cats". Neither of us had noticed that B and C had discovered a whole new world when they leapt up into the loft after John. Normally there is a cover over the opening to the loft. We rationalized. Perhaps two four legged exterminators would be just the thing for routing rats! Rats hate the smell of cats. But OMG, perhaps we will never get the cats down! I had visions of us both scrambling around in the loft. We will place the humane trap up in the loft later. This saga is far from finished. THEY are still in the loft and ominously silent. I'll keep you posted -- Bev The email of the species is more deadly than the mail. PS Have just rung Ted - HELP |
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Right after dad and I sold the old house, literally the day after the
closing, I hear this scratching sound in the roof above my head. I'm thinking bird or squirrel - whatever it was was nocturnal, 4AM I'd hear it. Annoying as hell, so I kept a stick close to the bed and bang on the ceiling - I figured if they could make noise so could I. Never mentioned it to the buyer, she wouldn't have believed me that it happened day after closing. About a month after moving, I found out what was in the ceiling - a family of four raccoons. They got up into the chimney, which apparently was falling apart, and got into the ceiling that way. Not quite sure what happened after that, girl that was renting moved out before lease was up - said raccoons would sit out on deck and watch her, wouldn't even run. She was afraid her daughter would get bit, so she moved out- landlord wouldn't do anything about the extra borders. Whatever is living in your house - get an exterminator and someone to look and fix where the little buggers are coming in at. Not only do you have to worry about diseases and things - they could chew through electrical wiring and cause a fire. Best of luck! "Bev" wrote in message ... Over three days B and C have developed a fixation with the ceiling in the corner of the lounge. At first I thought they were looking at a creepy crawly of some kind - and then I heard it, scuffle, scuffle, munch, munch, rattle rattle. Rats!!!!!!! We have never had a rat in our house and never in the ceiling!! It was time to get out the humane rat trap. I had to throw everything out of my untidy linen cupboard for John to climb up into the roof with the trap. No mean feat. Then from the recesses of the roof was a lot of cursing. "Those bloody cats". Neither of us had noticed that B and C had discovered a whole new world when they leapt up into the loft after John. Normally there is a cover over the opening to the loft. We rationalized. Perhaps two four legged exterminators would be just the thing for routing rats! Rats hate the smell of cats. But OMG, perhaps we will never get the cats down! I had visions of us both scrambling around in the loft. We will place the humane trap up in the loft later. This saga is far from finished. THEY are still in the loft and ominously silent. I'll keep you posted -- Bev The email of the species is more deadly than the mail. PS Have just rung Ted - HELP |
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JoJo wrote:
Right after dad and I sold the old house, literally the day after the closing, I hear this scratching sound in the roof above my head. I'm thinking bird or squirrel - whatever it was was nocturnal, 4AM I'd hear it. Annoying as hell, so I kept a stick close to the bed and bang on the ceiling - I figured if they could make noise so could I. Never mentioned it to the buyer, she wouldn't have believed me that it happened day after closing. About a month after moving, I found out what was in the ceiling - a family of four raccoons. They got up into the chimney, which apparently was falling apart, and got into the ceiling that way. Not quite sure what happened after that, girl that was renting moved out before lease was up - said raccoons would sit out on deck and watch her, wouldn't even run. She was afraid her daughter would get bit, so she moved out- landlord wouldn't do anything about the extra borders. Whatever is living in your house - get an exterminator and someone to look and fix where the little buggers are coming in at. Not only do you have to worry about diseases and things - they could chew through electrical wiring and cause a fire. Best of luck! "Bev" wrote in message ... Over three days B and C have developed a fixation with the ceiling in the corner of the lounge. At first I thought they were looking at a creepy crawly of some kind - and then I heard it, scuffle, scuffle, munch, munch, rattle rattle. Rats!!!!!!! We have never had a rat in our house and never in the ceiling!! It was time to get out the humane rat trap. I had to throw everything out of my untidy linen cupboard for John to climb up into the roof with the trap. No mean feat. Then from the recesses of the roof was a lot of cursing. "Those bloody cats". Neither of us had noticed that B and C had discovered a whole new world when they leapt up into the loft after John. Normally there is a cover over the opening to the loft. We rationalized. Perhaps two four legged exterminators would be just the thing for routing rats! Rats hate the smell of cats. But OMG, perhaps we will never get the cats down! I had visions of us both scrambling around in the loft. We will place the humane trap up in the loft later. This saga is far from finished. THEY are still in the loft and ominously silent. I'll keep you posted -- Bev The email of the species is more deadly than the mail. PS Have just rung Ted - HELP Jojo, the wiring is what I am worried about. We have our own walnut tree down the back and they do attract rats! A while back rats got into the garage and ate through the wiring in our car!! Cost a lot to get the wiring repaired. They removed all the poplars behind our place and further down they have dug out the creek with a digger. Think all the water rats have been displaced. Bev -- |
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JoJo wrote:
Right after dad and I sold the old house, literally the day after the closing, I hear this scratching sound in the roof above my head. I'm thinking bird or squirrel - whatever it was was nocturnal, 4AM I'd hear it. Annoying as hell, so I kept a stick close to the bed and bang on the ceiling - I figured if they could make noise so could I. Never mentioned it to the buyer, she wouldn't have believed me that it happened day after closing. About a month after moving, I found out what was in the ceiling - a family of four raccoons. They got up into the chimney, which apparently was falling apart, and got into the ceiling that way. Not quite sure what happened after that, girl that was renting moved out before lease was up - said raccoons would sit out on deck and watch her, wouldn't even run. She was afraid her daughter would get bit, so she moved out- landlord wouldn't do anything about the extra borders. Whatever is living in your house - get an exterminator and someone to look and fix where the little buggers are coming in at. Not only do you have to worry about diseases and things - they could chew through electrical wiring and cause a fire. Best of luck! "Bev" wrote in message ... Over three days B and C have developed a fixation with the ceiling in the corner of the lounge. At first I thought they were looking at a creepy crawly of some kind - and then I heard it, scuffle, scuffle, munch, munch, rattle rattle. Rats!!!!!!! We have never had a rat in our house and never in the ceiling!! It was time to get out the humane rat trap. I had to throw everything out of my untidy linen cupboard for John to climb up into the roof with the trap. No mean feat. Then from the recesses of the roof was a lot of cursing. "Those bloody cats". Neither of us had noticed that B and C had discovered a whole new world when they leapt up into the loft after John. Normally there is a cover over the opening to the loft. We rationalized. Perhaps two four legged exterminators would be just the thing for routing rats! Rats hate the smell of cats. But OMG, perhaps we will never get the cats down! I had visions of us both scrambling around in the loft. We will place the humane trap up in the loft later. This saga is far from finished. THEY are still in the loft and ominously silent. I'll keep you posted -- Bev The email of the species is more deadly than the mail. PS Have just rung Ted - HELP Jojo, the wiring is what I am worried about. We have our own walnut tree down the back and they do attract rats! A while back rats got into the garage and ate through the wiring in our car!! Cost a lot to get the wiring repaired. They removed all the poplars behind our place and further down they have dug out the creek with a digger. Think all the water rats have been displaced. Bev -- |
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JoJo wrote:
Right after dad and I sold the old house, literally the day after the closing, I hear this scratching sound in the roof above my head. I'm thinking bird or squirrel - whatever it was was nocturnal, 4AM I'd hear it. Annoying as hell, so I kept a stick close to the bed and bang on the ceiling - I figured if they could make noise so could I. Never mentioned it to the buyer, she wouldn't have believed me that it happened day after closing. About a month after moving, I found out what was in the ceiling - a family of four raccoons. They got up into the chimney, which apparently was falling apart, and got into the ceiling that way. Not quite sure what happened after that, girl that was renting moved out before lease was up - said raccoons would sit out on deck and watch her, wouldn't even run. She was afraid her daughter would get bit, so she moved out- landlord wouldn't do anything about the extra borders. Whatever is living in your house - get an exterminator and someone to look and fix where the little buggers are coming in at. Not only do you have to worry about diseases and things - they could chew through electrical wiring and cause a fire. Best of luck! "Bev" wrote in message ... Over three days B and C have developed a fixation with the ceiling in the corner of the lounge. At first I thought they were looking at a creepy crawly of some kind - and then I heard it, scuffle, scuffle, munch, munch, rattle rattle. Rats!!!!!!! We have never had a rat in our house and never in the ceiling!! It was time to get out the humane rat trap. I had to throw everything out of my untidy linen cupboard for John to climb up into the roof with the trap. No mean feat. Then from the recesses of the roof was a lot of cursing. "Those bloody cats". Neither of us had noticed that B and C had discovered a whole new world when they leapt up into the loft after John. Normally there is a cover over the opening to the loft. We rationalized. Perhaps two four legged exterminators would be just the thing for routing rats! Rats hate the smell of cats. But OMG, perhaps we will never get the cats down! I had visions of us both scrambling around in the loft. We will place the humane trap up in the loft later. This saga is far from finished. THEY are still in the loft and ominously silent. I'll keep you posted -- Bev The email of the species is more deadly than the mail. PS Have just rung Ted - HELP Jojo, the wiring is what I am worried about. We have our own walnut tree down the back and they do attract rats! A while back rats got into the garage and ate through the wiring in our car!! Cost a lot to get the wiring repaired. They removed all the poplars behind our place and further down they have dug out the creek with a digger. Think all the water rats have been displaced. Bev -- |
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m. L. Briggs wrote: If you manage to catch the cats in the trap, Ummm... I don't think she's TRYING to! I suggest you then call in an exterminator. The entrance where the rats came in will have to be located and closed. I suggest an expert. Rat bites can cause abcesses in cats. So can cat bites! |
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m. L. Briggs wrote: If you manage to catch the cats in the trap, Ummm... I don't think she's TRYING to! I suggest you then call in an exterminator. The entrance where the rats came in will have to be located and closed. I suggest an expert. Rat bites can cause abcesses in cats. So can cat bites! |
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m. L. Briggs wrote: If you manage to catch the cats in the trap, Ummm... I don't think she's TRYING to! I suggest you then call in an exterminator. The entrance where the rats came in will have to be located and closed. I suggest an expert. Rat bites can cause abcesses in cats. So can cat bites! |
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On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 20:08:30 -0700, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote: m. L. Briggs wrote: If you manage to catch the cats in the trap, Ummm... I don't think she's TRYING to! I suggest you then call in an exterminator. The entrance where the rats came in will have to be located and closed. I suggest an expert. Rat bites can cause abcesses in cats. So can cat bites! catching the cat instead of the rat was an attempt at humor. Sorry it didn't make it! |
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