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As the title suggests, there’s a bit of a dilemma going on at the moment.
You see, there’s been a nasty rat stalking the garden and the surrounding area, and as we all know, rats are vile communicable disease carrying vermin who will multiply quickly and take over the neighbourhood/world given the slightest chance. I’ve never seen the beast in question, but others have, and I think I’ve heard it having fights with cats during the night.
So, to counter this potentially large problem, my dad went out and bought a mouse/rat trap the other day, just one of those ordinary traps that we’ve seen so often in Tom & Jerry cartoons.
He brings the trap home, and to my astonishment, the “Extra Power Little Nipper Rat Trap” is probably THE most lethal device of torture and/or killing I’ve ever seen!!
You could trap a bloody elephant with it!
The spring can only be lifted and set by someone with Geoff Capes-esque strength, and when set off it can snap a pencil and probably an iron bar with the slightest of ease. This trap will not just stop/stun the vermin, it will definitely hurt, and more than likely behead it or completely obliterate it.
I started to wonder whether this might be a little too cruel, even for a nasty rat.
So aren’t there any safer, friendlier ways to trap the villainous vermin?
Well, my uncle had a problem with rat/mouse eating stuff in his loft a few months ago, so he bought a non-lethal trap (a kind of tube where you put food in one end, and when the pest goes in, the little door closes and traps it), he baited it, set it and waited. Some days later, he went back up into the loft and found that the so-called “non-lethal” trap had showered his loft in pieces of rodent debris. So much for the non-lethal option.
Ever since a Jack Russell dog chased me and a school pet Russian hamster had a grudge against me and bit me a few times many years ago, I’ve never liked animals. In fact, I hate all animals and believe that vets should be made to practice on human health and help us out with our ailments rather than worrying about cats with constipation or whether dogs have feelings of anxiety. Pets are pointless, dumb animals and only lead to large vets bills, scratched up arms and chairs, pooh in unexpected places, cleaning out hutches/cages in the freezing winter months and more unpleasant side effects.
Whilst many people love animals, rats are reviled evil pests, and I have no qualms about getting rid of the horrible things, but it does seem to me, the animal hater extraordinaire, that this is a highly cruel way of getting rid of it, and for all the hatred we have towards rats, it just doesn’t seem right to kill the little guy like this. I suppose it’s a bit like the fox problem; their numbers should be controlled, but not by toffee-nosed snobs on horses with hunting dogs and shotguns.
This little rat problem can have one of two outcomes:
1) The trap is set; the rat falls for the bait and is turned into rat paste (a bit like when Michael Ironside shoots the rat in Total Recall). Problem solved, but guilty feelings about overt cruelty remain. I look at the rats pained expression as it stares up at me as if to ask, “why?” I fall to my knees and go “NOOOOO!! What have I done!”
2) The trap is not set due to having weak will and not wanting to be overly cruel. This lack of ruthlessness leads to a major rise in the rat population in Essex and the South East, leading to diseases, plagues and much human suffering.
(Though having thought about it, a little plague to wipe out the majority of scummy Essex yokels wouldn’t be too bad…)
It’s more than likely that the trap will be set, and the rat will be destroyed, but I’ll always feel a little guilty at the suffering of that creature, even if it was a disease-carrying pest.
You see, there’s been a nasty rat stalking the garden and the surrounding area, and as we all know, rats are vile communicable disease carrying vermin who will multiply quickly and take over the neighbourhood/world given the slightest chance. I’ve never seen the beast in question, but others have, and I think I’ve heard it having fights with cats during the night.
So, to counter this potentially large problem, my dad went out and bought a mouse/rat trap the other day, just one of those ordinary traps that we’ve seen so often in Tom & Jerry cartoons.
He brings the trap home, and to my astonishment, the “Extra Power Little Nipper Rat Trap” is probably THE most lethal device of torture and/or killing I’ve ever seen!!
You could trap a bloody elephant with it!
The spring can only be lifted and set by someone with Geoff Capes-esque strength, and when set off it can snap a pencil and probably an iron bar with the slightest of ease. This trap will not just stop/stun the vermin, it will definitely hurt, and more than likely behead it or completely obliterate it.
I started to wonder whether this might be a little too cruel, even for a nasty rat.
So aren’t there any safer, friendlier ways to trap the villainous vermin?
Well, my uncle had a problem with rat/mouse eating stuff in his loft a few months ago, so he bought a non-lethal trap (a kind of tube where you put food in one end, and when the pest goes in, the little door closes and traps it), he baited it, set it and waited. Some days later, he went back up into the loft and found that the so-called “non-lethal” trap had showered his loft in pieces of rodent debris. So much for the non-lethal option.
Ever since a Jack Russell dog chased me and a school pet Russian hamster had a grudge against me and bit me a few times many years ago, I’ve never liked animals. In fact, I hate all animals and believe that vets should be made to practice on human health and help us out with our ailments rather than worrying about cats with constipation or whether dogs have feelings of anxiety. Pets are pointless, dumb animals and only lead to large vets bills, scratched up arms and chairs, pooh in unexpected places, cleaning out hutches/cages in the freezing winter months and more unpleasant side effects.
Whilst many people love animals, rats are reviled evil pests, and I have no qualms about getting rid of the horrible things, but it does seem to me, the animal hater extraordinaire, that this is a highly cruel way of getting rid of it, and for all the hatred we have towards rats, it just doesn’t seem right to kill the little guy like this. I suppose it’s a bit like the fox problem; their numbers should be controlled, but not by toffee-nosed snobs on horses with hunting dogs and shotguns.
This little rat problem can have one of two outcomes:
1) The trap is set; the rat falls for the bait and is turned into rat paste (a bit like when Michael Ironside shoots the rat in Total Recall). Problem solved, but guilty feelings about overt cruelty remain. I look at the rats pained expression as it stares up at me as if to ask, “why?” I fall to my knees and go “NOOOOO!! What have I done!”
2) The trap is not set due to having weak will and not wanting to be overly cruel. This lack of ruthlessness leads to a major rise in the rat population in Essex and the South East, leading to diseases, plagues and much human suffering.
(Though having thought about it, a little plague to wipe out the majority of scummy Essex yokels wouldn’t be too bad…)
It’s more than likely that the trap will be set, and the rat will be destroyed, but I’ll always feel a little guilty at the suffering of that creature, even if it was a disease-carrying pest.
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It exploded in his face? Fantastic! I wish I could have seen the expression on his mug when that happened.
You can just imagine the momentary silence before he screams, wondering what just happened.
Superb!
You can just imagine the momentary silence before he screams, wondering what just happened.
Superb!
Good post and one I sincerely agree with. Rats are evil vermin and they are also highly intelligent. My dad's uncle died of the plague after being bitten by a rat and they carry some of the most potent diseases known to man. The thing is, a rat never makes the same mistake twice - if you put out bait for one and it takes it and dies, future generations from the same family:
1) won't take the bait or
2) will be resistance to the new bait.
There are more rats than humans in the world and, in London (where I live), you are not more than 6 feet from a rat. They multiply quickly and can become resistant to pest control methods within a couple of generations. I don't know if you've ever read James Herbert's "Domain" but it paints a startling pictur of rats' dominance in a post-nuclear London. In fact I can safely say that I have a morbid fear/hatred of rats.
A funny story to end this post - I was at a mate's house party a few years ago in Whitechapel and there was a girl there who'd actually bought her pet rat to the party! I was pretty shocked and she tried to make me hold it but I refused point-blank - there was no way i was going to handle it! It gives new meaning to the term, "Get your rat out, love!" Thing is, i didn't mean for anyone to take it so literally!
Oh yeah, another rat-related incident but not so funny - I went to help my mate move out of his house about 5 years ago. He was moving into a new place where pets weren't allowed so he decided to give his pets rats (name Ronnie and Reggie after The Krays) to the guy who lives upstairs. So, after helping him move out, I heard an anguished scream come from upstairs. We both rushed upstairs taking the steps two at a time, thinking the worst but we weren't prepared for the most horrible sight I ever had the pleasure of witnessing...the bloke upstairs (I'll refer to him as Jack) was standing in the middle of his bedroom with one rat scurrying around at breakneck speed and the other rat was...in bits of flesh, bones, gristle and blood all over his face, walls, hand and shirt. After we calmed Jack down (he was a blubbering shadow of his former self who looked as if he'd witnessed the Grim Reaper himself) we managed to get the full story out of him:
Jack had taken the rats upstairs and left them in the cage. When it came round to feeding time, he decided to let one of the rats out of the cage and fed the other one. While the one rat was running around, he decided to grab it and put it back in its' cage. But the rats eluded his movements for a good 15 minutes before he finally managed to trap it in the corner. It then leapt for his face and he managed to duck, but not before it had sunk its' razor-sharp teeth into his exposed neck, just above the shoulder. With a cry of fury he immediately leaped down and grabbed the rat as it was trying to get away. He then held the rat in front of him and screamed "YOU B*STARD! YOU BIT ME!" Unbeknown to him, he was squeezing the rat too hard and it stopped struggling for one brief instant...before its head exploded all over his face, neck and shirt. That's when he uttered his blood curdling scream and in the ensuing shock he managed to knock over the rat cage...and we found him gibbering inanely with half a rat's body on the floor with blood seeping out of it. i don't know whether it was Ronnie or Reggie who died that day but after the rat incident, he decided not to keep rat ever again.
To this day, I don't think he (or I, for that matter) will ever recover from such a gruesome sight. As for the other rat, i have no idea what happened to it - i was too shocked at the state of him and had to leave, but not before emptying the contents of my stomach all over the floor.
1) won't take the bait or
2) will be resistance to the new bait.
There are more rats than humans in the world and, in London (where I live), you are not more than 6 feet from a rat. They multiply quickly and can become resistant to pest control methods within a couple of generations. I don't know if you've ever read James Herbert's "Domain" but it paints a startling pictur of rats' dominance in a post-nuclear London. In fact I can safely say that I have a morbid fear/hatred of rats.
A funny story to end this post - I was at a mate's house party a few years ago in Whitechapel and there was a girl there who'd actually bought her pet rat to the party! I was pretty shocked and she tried to make me hold it but I refused point-blank - there was no way i was going to handle it! It gives new meaning to the term, "Get your rat out, love!" Thing is, i didn't mean for anyone to take it so literally!
Oh yeah, another rat-related incident but not so funny - I went to help my mate move out of his house about 5 years ago. He was moving into a new place where pets weren't allowed so he decided to give his pets rats (name Ronnie and Reggie after The Krays) to the guy who lives upstairs. So, after helping him move out, I heard an anguished scream come from upstairs. We both rushed upstairs taking the steps two at a time, thinking the worst but we weren't prepared for the most horrible sight I ever had the pleasure of witnessing...the bloke upstairs (I'll refer to him as Jack) was standing in the middle of his bedroom with one rat scurrying around at breakneck speed and the other rat was...in bits of flesh, bones, gristle and blood all over his face, walls, hand and shirt. After we calmed Jack down (he was a blubbering shadow of his former self who looked as if he'd witnessed the Grim Reaper himself) we managed to get the full story out of him:
Jack had taken the rats upstairs and left them in the cage. When it came round to feeding time, he decided to let one of the rats out of the cage and fed the other one. While the one rat was running around, he decided to grab it and put it back in its' cage. But the rats eluded his movements for a good 15 minutes before he finally managed to trap it in the corner. It then leapt for his face and he managed to duck, but not before it had sunk its' razor-sharp teeth into his exposed neck, just above the shoulder. With a cry of fury he immediately leaped down and grabbed the rat as it was trying to get away. He then held the rat in front of him and screamed "YOU B*STARD! YOU BIT ME!" Unbeknown to him, he was squeezing the rat too hard and it stopped struggling for one brief instant...before its head exploded all over his face, neck and shirt. That's when he uttered his blood curdling scream and in the ensuing shock he managed to knock over the rat cage...and we found him gibbering inanely with half a rat's body on the floor with blood seeping out of it. i don't know whether it was Ronnie or Reggie who died that day but after the rat incident, he decided not to keep rat ever again.
To this day, I don't think he (or I, for that matter) will ever recover from such a gruesome sight. As for the other rat, i have no idea what happened to it - i was too shocked at the state of him and had to leave, but not before emptying the contents of my stomach all over the floor.
Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Put a huge neon arrow next to the trap, saying RAT TRAP HERE - this
> way, the rat will know there's a trap set for him (and a grisly
> death), and if he's got any sense at all, he'll scarper and leave you
> be.
>
> Huh?
Only you'd have to write it in Rat.
> Put a huge neon arrow next to the trap, saying RAT TRAP HERE - this
> way, the rat will know there's a trap set for him (and a grisly
> death), and if he's got any sense at all, he'll scarper and leave you
> be.
>
> Huh?
Only you'd have to write it in Rat.
Mr Snuggly wrote:
> Put a huge neon arrow next to the trap, saying RAT TRAP HERE - this
> way, the rat will know there's a trap set for him (and a grisly
> death), and if he's got any sense at all, he'll scarper and leave you
> be.
Good idea, or if he ignores the sign and gets killed by the trap, i'll know it was his stupid fault and not mine as he ignored the warnings, so guilty feelings will be lowered to a minimum.
> Put a huge neon arrow next to the trap, saying RAT TRAP HERE - this
> way, the rat will know there's a trap set for him (and a grisly
> death), and if he's got any sense at all, he'll scarper and leave you
> be.
Good idea, or if he ignores the sign and gets killed by the trap, i'll know it was his stupid fault and not mine as he ignored the warnings, so guilty feelings will be lowered to a minimum.
Put a huge neon arrow next to the trap, saying RAT TRAP HERE - this way, the rat will know there's a trap set for him (and a grisly death), and if he's got any sense at all, he'll scarper and leave you be.
Huh?
Huh?
change the trap.
add a small bowl onto it by glueing the bottom of the bowl to the bit that hits the rat. therefore trapping it. probably won't work but it's a guggestion.
add a small bowl onto it by glueing the bottom of the bowl to the bit that hits the rat. therefore trapping it. probably won't work but it's a guggestion.
Rats.
Rule number 1
==============
Not only are there always more than one, there are always more than dozens of them. The rat you see is only seen because there are too many of them to hide all the time.
Go ahead, plant your trap. But don't come crying to me when a hundred other blighters take its place and wreak havoc on your neighbourhood.
Rule number 1
==============
Not only are there always more than one, there are always more than dozens of them. The rat you see is only seen because there are too many of them to hide all the time.
Go ahead, plant your trap. But don't come crying to me when a hundred other blighters take its place and wreak havoc on your neighbourhood.
As the title suggests, there’s a bit of a dilemma going on at the moment.
You see, there’s been a nasty rat stalking the garden and the surrounding area, and as we all know, rats are vile communicable disease carrying vermin who will multiply quickly and take over the neighbourhood/world given the slightest chance. I’ve never seen the beast in question, but others have, and I think I’ve heard it having fights with cats during the night.
So, to counter this potentially large problem, my dad went out and bought a mouse/rat trap the other day, just one of those ordinary traps that we’ve seen so often in Tom & Jerry cartoons.
He brings the trap home, and to my astonishment, the “Extra Power Little Nipper Rat Trap” is probably THE most lethal device of torture and/or killing I’ve ever seen!!
You could trap a bloody elephant with it!
The spring can only be lifted and set by someone with Geoff Capes-esque strength, and when set off it can snap a pencil and probably an iron bar with the slightest of ease. This trap will not just stop/stun the vermin, it will definitely hurt, and more than likely behead it or completely obliterate it.
I started to wonder whether this might be a little too cruel, even for a nasty rat.
So aren’t there any safer, friendlier ways to trap the villainous vermin?
Well, my uncle had a problem with rat/mouse eating stuff in his loft a few months ago, so he bought a non-lethal trap (a kind of tube where you put food in one end, and when the pest goes in, the little door closes and traps it), he baited it, set it and waited. Some days later, he went back up into the loft and found that the so-called “non-lethal” trap had showered his loft in pieces of rodent debris. So much for the non-lethal option.
Ever since a Jack Russell dog chased me and a school pet Russian hamster had a grudge against me and bit me a few times many years ago, I’ve never liked animals. In fact, I hate all animals and believe that vets should be made to practice on human health and help us out with our ailments rather than worrying about cats with constipation or whether dogs have feelings of anxiety. Pets are pointless, dumb animals and only lead to large vets bills, scratched up arms and chairs, pooh in unexpected places, cleaning out hutches/cages in the freezing winter months and more unpleasant side effects.
Whilst many people love animals, rats are reviled evil pests, and I have no qualms about getting rid of the horrible things, but it does seem to me, the animal hater extraordinaire, that this is a highly cruel way of getting rid of it, and for all the hatred we have towards rats, it just doesn’t seem right to kill the little guy like this. I suppose it’s a bit like the fox problem; their numbers should be controlled, but not by toffee-nosed snobs on horses with hunting dogs and shotguns.
This little rat problem can have one of two outcomes:
1) The trap is set; the rat falls for the bait and is turned into rat paste (a bit like when Michael Ironside shoots the rat in Total Recall). Problem solved, but guilty feelings about overt cruelty remain. I look at the rats pained expression as it stares up at me as if to ask, “why?” I fall to my knees and go “NOOOOO!! What have I done!”
2) The trap is not set due to having weak will and not wanting to be overly cruel. This lack of ruthlessness leads to a major rise in the rat population in Essex and the South East, leading to diseases, plagues and much human suffering.
(Though having thought about it, a little plague to wipe out the majority of scummy Essex yokels wouldn’t be too bad…)
It’s more than likely that the trap will be set, and the rat will be destroyed, but I’ll always feel a little guilty at the suffering of that creature, even if it was a disease-carrying pest.
You see, there’s been a nasty rat stalking the garden and the surrounding area, and as we all know, rats are vile communicable disease carrying vermin who will multiply quickly and take over the neighbourhood/world given the slightest chance. I’ve never seen the beast in question, but others have, and I think I’ve heard it having fights with cats during the night.
So, to counter this potentially large problem, my dad went out and bought a mouse/rat trap the other day, just one of those ordinary traps that we’ve seen so often in Tom & Jerry cartoons.
He brings the trap home, and to my astonishment, the “Extra Power Little Nipper Rat Trap” is probably THE most lethal device of torture and/or killing I’ve ever seen!!
You could trap a bloody elephant with it!
The spring can only be lifted and set by someone with Geoff Capes-esque strength, and when set off it can snap a pencil and probably an iron bar with the slightest of ease. This trap will not just stop/stun the vermin, it will definitely hurt, and more than likely behead it or completely obliterate it.
I started to wonder whether this might be a little too cruel, even for a nasty rat.
So aren’t there any safer, friendlier ways to trap the villainous vermin?
Well, my uncle had a problem with rat/mouse eating stuff in his loft a few months ago, so he bought a non-lethal trap (a kind of tube where you put food in one end, and when the pest goes in, the little door closes and traps it), he baited it, set it and waited. Some days later, he went back up into the loft and found that the so-called “non-lethal” trap had showered his loft in pieces of rodent debris. So much for the non-lethal option.
Ever since a Jack Russell dog chased me and a school pet Russian hamster had a grudge against me and bit me a few times many years ago, I’ve never liked animals. In fact, I hate all animals and believe that vets should be made to practice on human health and help us out with our ailments rather than worrying about cats with constipation or whether dogs have feelings of anxiety. Pets are pointless, dumb animals and only lead to large vets bills, scratched up arms and chairs, pooh in unexpected places, cleaning out hutches/cages in the freezing winter months and more unpleasant side effects.
Whilst many people love animals, rats are reviled evil pests, and I have no qualms about getting rid of the horrible things, but it does seem to me, the animal hater extraordinaire, that this is a highly cruel way of getting rid of it, and for all the hatred we have towards rats, it just doesn’t seem right to kill the little guy like this. I suppose it’s a bit like the fox problem; their numbers should be controlled, but not by toffee-nosed snobs on horses with hunting dogs and shotguns.
This little rat problem can have one of two outcomes:
1) The trap is set; the rat falls for the bait and is turned into rat paste (a bit like when Michael Ironside shoots the rat in Total Recall). Problem solved, but guilty feelings about overt cruelty remain. I look at the rats pained expression as it stares up at me as if to ask, “why?” I fall to my knees and go “NOOOOO!! What have I done!”
2) The trap is not set due to having weak will and not wanting to be overly cruel. This lack of ruthlessness leads to a major rise in the rat population in Essex and the South East, leading to diseases, plagues and much human suffering.
(Though having thought about it, a little plague to wipe out the majority of scummy Essex yokels wouldn’t be too bad…)
It’s more than likely that the trap will be set, and the rat will be destroyed, but I’ll always feel a little guilty at the suffering of that creature, even if it was a disease-carrying pest.
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