Not to say A-a-a-a-a-k!
Just saw the BIGGEST RAT I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!
She was lurking in the garage, and when she saw me she was just as startled as I was in spotting her. She shot underneath the dryer, where she presumably is hiding now.
Called Ruby the Corgi, who came trotting out to investigate.
Corgis are ratters. One of the things they’re bred for is chasing rats around ships and barns.
But by the time Her Majesty arrived, Rattie had dodged out of sight. Dayum!
Well, I have rat poison now. Been reluctant to put it out, lest Ruby find it and munch on it. Or…lest she find a deceased gourmet rat and eat that.
Tossed several pellets of the stuff in behind the washer and dryer, and then put some inside a rat trap along with a little slab of dog food, hoping maybe the combined deliciousness will lure Rattie into that.
Rattie, it develops, is very smart. She has exactly zero intention of strolling into a trap.
That would make her several degrees smarter than a dog, we might note.
I’ll have to keep Ruby out of the garage now, to be sure she doesn’t get into the scrumptious rat pills. Or find a rat roast to munch out there.
This is gonna be a PITA of the first water….
Speaking of water, as we scribble the much-vaunted California storm is making its way into the Valley. It’s thundering away out there, the air having chilled down to a crisp 71 degrees. We’re told to expect an 80% chance of rain and light winds.
Hmmmm…well, it may rip and roar a bit in our parts, but I doubt we’ll see any rain here. The thunder is pretty far off in the distance…I think the alleged thunderstorms are well to the north of the ‘Hood.
San Berdoo apparently got something over 13 inches of rain with this storm. Almost 12 inches in Riverside. Looks like the main part of the thing is bearing toward Nevada. Pretty startling images from the low desert of California…egad! Wunderground is predicting a .o5% chance (whoop de dooo!) of rain here, with a low of 71 during the night. Eeek. Be scared. Be very scared.
And lookee here! I failed to “publish” this adventure. Apparently.
Trying again…
The next time you write about your rat situation, maybe don’t post a picture of the cutest rat I’ve ever seen. Just sayin’. ;O)
LOL!!! They move too fast for their “admirer” to snap a photo of them! 😀
Ruby shoots along like a ROCKET — you’ve never seen anything on four feet go so fast. But Rattie easily outruns her.
The odd thing is, the damn critters are kinda cute. If we didn’t have our cultural prejudice against them, we might think of them the way we think of squirrels and robins and the like. Personally, though, I wish Rattie would go be cute somewhere else…