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Oh, do I have a rat story for you....be warned, this is long!
So, I used to live in this 100 year old house in Atlanta that was great for its location(literally 20 steps to the bars) except for the fact that it had NO HEAT and rats. We found this out because we kept hearing rustling in the kitchen late at night and finding wrapped food torn open. So, we call our exterminator and the guy comes out and puts down sticky traps at different parts of the kitchen, like under the stove and in the pantry.
Now, lets have a side bar that sticky traps do not KILL the mouse, they just make him stick to the trap.
Anyways, I wake up early one Saturday morning, ready for a run and a nice day and as I walk into the kitchen, I hear a high pitched squeal. I think its my roomate turning on her shower, as our pipes squeaked. But, alas, it was not the pipes but a BLACK BLOB(otherwise known as a RAT) STUCK TO THE PAPER, coming out halfway from the stove.
I SCREAM and go racing into my roomates room and wake her up. Neither of us has a clue what to do, so we call the exterminator and get a recording(it is a SATURDAY, of course!). Next, we call Animal Control and the woman on the phone laughs at me and tells me unless its road kill or a rabid animal, I need to call a pest removal service. So, I get on the phone and the first pest removal place says it will be $250 for emergency removal. I hang up and keep on going down the line till I find Vinnie with SE Pest Removal who says he will do it for $50, but it will be about 2 hours. We say fine and spend 3 hours(he was late!) listening to a rodent scream. It was the WORST!!
Finally, Vinnie arrives and it takes him about 3 seconds to rip the paper off of the floor and put the rat in a humane trap to be released.
The funniest part was we had a For Rent sign in our front yard(we were moving out in 2 weeks) and Vinnie asked us why we were leaving such a great house. Um, you just removed a HALF DEAD RAT from my floor???? Why the hell do you THINK we are moving.
I HATE RATS!!!
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