There's a rat in the kitchen what am I gonna do?

Witchie

Well more specifically he was in the bathroom and bedroom but since the walls don't go all the way to the ceilings in Indian houses he was more than likely in the kitchen and living room too.

So advice please. Do I leave India and go somewhere a little less filthy or do I suck it up and stay?

Any tips on trying to keep the feckers out when there are holes in your roof and walls?

blinding

Marry the rat.....

jester77

Just hang this outside your door

Vico1612

Call UB40 ?

Boom_Bap

Firstly, you need to name your new pet.

hungry hypno toad

Is this an Indian rat or an Irish rat?

Mint Sauce

Burn the house down. It's the only way.

Teddington Cuddlesworth

Snitches get stitches, remind him of that.

givyjoe

Get yourself 4 pet turtles and some green ooze..

selwyn froggitt

hungry hypno toad wrote: »

Is this an Indian rat or an Irish rat?

A siberian hamster?

Boom_Bap

Are you anyway near Rajasthan, you could take it to the rat temple there.

osarusan

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/1d/2c/2a/1d2c2adab1de2062aa51de4608724dac.jpg

home-made rat trap.

Get a bin or deep bucket, run a piece of heavy wire (like a clothes hanger) across the middle of it through two holes drilled near the top. That wire also runs through a cylinder (like a plastic bottle with holes in the top and bottom). The cylinder spins pretty easily on the wire under any kind of pressure.

You coat the cylinder with some tasty rat treat, and put enough water into the bin to drown a rat. You also give the rat some way of getting to the top of the bin.

Rat gets to top of bin, tries to get treat, puts weight on cylinder which then spins, falls into bin, drowns.

Glenster

Fix it.

Graces7

Witchie wrote: »

Well more specifically he was in the bathroom and bedroom but since the walls don't go all the way to the ceilings in Indian houses he was more than likely in the kitchen and living room too.

So advice please. Do I leave India and go somewhere a little less filthy or do I suck it up and stay?

Any tips on trying to keep the feckers out when there are holes in your roof and walls?

What a panic.. Traps are good. and keep food and dishes closed in. Rats are only critters.

beertons

Get the loan of a cat for a week or 2.

Lady Spangles

Witchie wrote: »

So advice please. Do I leave India and go somewhere a little less filthy or do I suck it up and stay?

Oh please, I live in Belfast (a well known utopia of cleanliness and hygiene) and I had a rat in my kitchen. We laid out four trays of rat bait to kill the little fvcker and he ate all of them. Scarfed the lot down and still lived. We ended up calling him "Ratsputin".

Anyway, yeah. You could try bait, you could try hitting it with a big stick. Fact is, they usually find a way in regardless. Good luck!

Ken.

Mod-Advocating extreme cruelty will not be tolerated. There are very humane ways of getting rid of them.

Winterlong

If cruelty is not allowed then send the rat a strongly worded letter asking him to either leave or start paying rent.

Ken.

Winterlong wrote: »

If cruelty is not allowed then send the rat a strongly worded letter asking him to either leave or start paying rent.

I just woke my cat with a snort of laughter.

percy212

Good advice. Should send them running quick smart.

beertons wrote: »

Get the loan of a cat for a week or 2.

Graces7

Lady Spangles wrote: »

Oh please, I live in Belfast (a well known utopia of cleanliness and hygiene) and I had a rat in my kitchen. We laid out four trays of rat bait to kill the little fvcker and he ate all of them. Scarfed the lot down and still lived. We ended up calling him "Ratsputin".

Anyway, yeah. You could try bait, you could try hitting it with a big stick. Fact is, they usually find a way in regardless. Good luck!

Poison. they go away and die a horrible death and sometimes stink the place out.. traps; you know they are dead then and it is fast.

I once had a large rat in the roof in one cottage. Used to come in through where i had pulled the rotten dresser out and steal food from the deaf cat.

I changed things round and left my young cat in that room... Around 2 am I was woken by thuds and screams....carefully opened the door with a prayer.... there was my young cat, shaking head to foot and on the bloodstained ground a huge, huge dead rat.

Took it outside on the shovel and took the cat to bed with me with a tin of tuna...

All the other rats? Ran off up the drive waving a white flag ..;)

witchie. face the rat situation! Get a trap and make sure all the food and dishes cannot be touched and get a lot of bleach.

OK?
OK!

Make friends with the little dude. Henrietta the rat. Or Harold.

Rubberlegs

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Make friends with the little dude. Henrietta the rat. Or Harold.

Yes, good advice . I never used to like spiders but I found if I gave them a name and said hello to them that they didn't bother me as much. I don't mind them now.

Jack the Stripper

Burn the house down as you run a huge risk of weils disease which can kill.

vicwatson

You're gonna fix that rat that's what ya gonna do !

Boom_Bap

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

Burn the house down as you run a huge risk of weils disease which can kill.

Nah, drinking a can of coke sorts that out.

moonlighting

Jack the Stripper

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Nah, drinking a can of coke sorts that out.

This is no time to be a funny man.

ZeitgeistGlee

Find out if he cooks.

s4uv3

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Are you anyway near Rajasthan, you could take it to the rat temple there.

Oh jesus the memories of that place
I was proper disturbed after it.

Boom_Bap

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

This is no time to be a funny man.

It's not a joke, a home prevention of Wiels is drinking a can of coke

Cantona's Collars

Do they have ferrets in India,get one.If not catch a cobra and let him loose in the house,he'll eat the rat(but might kill you too)

biko

Option 1
Make sure all edibles are safely locked away.
The rat is there because there is food it can eat.

Option 2
Learn to love rats.

ScumLord

Burn India down and leave.

Witchie

percy212 wrote: »

Good advice. Should send them running quick smart.

Am trying to lure some pussy.....cats into my house.

Graces7 wrote: »

Poison. they go away and die a horrible death and sometimes stink the place out.. traps; you know they are dead then and it is fast.

I once had a large rat in the roof in one cottage. Used to come in through where i had pulled the rotten dresser out and steal food from the deaf cat.

I changed things round and left my young cat in that room... Around 2 am I was woken by thuds and screams....carefully opened the door with a prayer.... there was my young cat, shaking head to foot and on the bloodstained ground a huge, huge dead rat.

Took it outside on the shovel and took the cat to bed with me with a tin of tuna...

All the other rats? Ran off up the drive waving a white flag ..;)

witchie. face the rat situation! Get a trap and make sure all the food and dishes cannot be touched and get a lot of bleach.

OK?
OK!

Ok! 😁

Boyfriend bought poison today and said he will stay awake all night and protect me. 😍

73Cat wrote: »

Yes, good advice . I never used to like spiders but I found if I gave them a name and said hello to them that they didn't bother me as much. I don't mind them now.

Thats how I hog over my fear of geckos. "Howya Gary" solves all the fear.

biko wrote: »

Option 1
Make sure all edibles are safely locked away.
The rat is there because there is food it can eat.

Option 2
Learn to love rats.

Option 1 is difficult when you just have open shelving in your kitchen.

Option 2 is impossible.

My solution to the situation would be to run, very far and very fast. Screaming while I do it.

I had hopes my newly adopted cat Marvin would protect me from rodents, but looking at him sleeping on his back with his mouth open and his already overfed tummy turned up to heaven, the thought strikes me that Marvin is nothing but a lazy opportunist who'd watch while I was eaten alive by rodents rather than move from a comfortable spot. Unless the rats are coated with chocolate, Marv aint moving.

ScumLord

Witchie wrote: »

Boyfriend bought poison today and said he will stay awake all night and protect me. 😍

Or he's made a deal with the rat and is going to escape while you sleep, leaving you to the rat.

Glenster

ScumLord wrote: »

Or he's made a deal with the rat and is going to escape while you sleep, leaving you to the rat.

Your boyfriend and the rat are having an affair.

Wildcard7

Candie wrote: »

I had hopes my newly adopted cat Marvin would protect me from rodents, but looking at him sleeping on his back with his mouth open and his already overfed tummy turned up to heaven, the thought strikes me that Marvin is nothing but a lazy opportunist

I have not seen a "wild" mouse or rat up close until we got cats. Now I have to clean up a number of dead mice and rats every week, get to catch the odd half dead or completely alive one in the middle of the night (nothing wakes you up more efficiently than that) and have built up a very high resistance to gore of any kind. I have also learned a thing or two about little rodents physiology, in particular about the size of their stomachs.

If the cat is lucky enough to bring something exotic home (a frog, a bat, a mole, we even had a small rabbit recently) I'm not even mad anymore. Except birds, they're a mess.

Anyway, enjoy your lazy cat, there might come a time when you think back to his lazy days and miss them :-)

Wildcard7

Wildcard7 wrote: »

I have not seen a "wild" mouse or rat up close until we got cats. Now I have to clean up a number of dead mice and rats every week, get to catch the odd half dead or completely alive one in the middle of the night (nothing wakes you up more efficiently than that) and have built up a very high resistance to gore of any kind. I have also learned a thing or two about little rodents physiology, in particular about the size of their stomachs.

If the cat is lucky enough to bring something exotic home (a frog, a bat, a mole, we even had a small rabbit recently) I'm not even mad anymore. Except birds, they're a mess.

Anyway, enjoy your lazy cat, there might come a time when you think back to his lazy days and miss them :-)

He's an apartment cat, for two reasons. Firstly because there's a lot of activity outside and I'm close to a very busy highway, and secondly because if Marvin ever brought a rat or a mouse into this apartment, he'd very quickly find that I'd moved out. Without him.

Not that I think Marv chasing anything around is ever going to be an issue. Lazy git. :P

blinding

Buy the Rat a Hat.....

Then maybe have a Chat......

You could mention or not.....a Cat.....

farmchoice

Lady Spangles wrote: »

Oh please, I live in Belfast (a well known utopia of cleanliness and hygiene) and I had a rat in my kitchen. We laid out four trays of rat bait to kill the little fvcker and he ate all of them. Scarfed the lot down and still lived. We ended up calling him "Ratsputin".

Anyway, yeah. You could try bait, you could try hitting it with a big stick. Fact is, they usually find a way in regardless. Good luck!

i have some bad news for you you dont have one rat you have a lot of rats. one rat didn't eat your 4 trays of poison a good few did and then died and more are still there.

you should probably sort this out as rats do spread disease and you can get weil's disease off them easily enough.

it might be time to give rentokil a call.

ScumLord

farmchoice wrote: »

i have some bad news for you you dont have one rat you have a lot of rats. one rat didn't eat your 4 trays of poison a good few did and then died and more are still there..

I'd imagine living in India you just have to come to terms with the fact that you're more than likely being watched by a rat at this and every moment and that there's probably more rats living in every town and city than there is people, and in India that's a lot of rats.

MonkieSocks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5eqkWRWZ7c

Lt Dan

Witchie wrote: »

Well more specifically he was in the bathroom and bedroom but since the walls don't go all the way to the ceilings in Indian houses he was more than likely in the kitchen and living room too.

So advice please. Do I leave India and go somewhere a little less filthy or do I suck it up and stay?

Any tips on trying to keep the feckers out when there are holes in your roof and walls?

Leave India

What on earth possessed you to go there in the first place?

PowerToWait

India / boyfriend loop.

Capt'n Midnight

Make friends with it before it grows up.

snowflaker

Cat!!!

Jack the Stripper

snowflaker wrote: »

Cat!!!

Cats are a waste of time, the modern cat living in the semi d would ****te bricks at a rat.

snowflaker

Jack the Stripper wrote: »

Cats are a waste of time, the modern cat living in the semi d would ****te bricks at a rat.

Not mine. The male cat is a little killer! Kept bringing me presents til I put a bell on him!

Witchie

So I survived the night by getting drunk and riding til I conked into a comatosesque sleep. We put poison out but none was touched....yet.