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| Thread ID: 82895 | 2007-09-12 09:07:00 | What do rats eat? | Mercury (1316) | PC World Chat |
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| 590522 | 2007-10-01 08:59:00 | UPDATE: We've been busy the last couple of weeks but finally got back to the rats today . A couple of hours spent removing some non-working airconditioning ducts from under the house so we could move (big squashy things in the way of everything) then around the edges with a torch looking for holes in the bottom plate . Nothing in the bit we could move in so it was commando style crawling up the slope to the low height bit and lying there on tummys searching for signs with a torch . (I'm getting too old for this!) No signs of rat droppings, dead rats etc so we gave up . After loading up the trailer with disintergrating ducting I then spent some time wandering around the outside of the house trying to think like a rat . General conclusion after much thought was a couple of light branches close to the house or the power lines . After sweeping each other down with the broom we demanded coffee from the neighbours and stopped for a chat . Phil, bright boy that he is, says "Oh yes, I've seen rats on the nice thick power line" . Looks like we're looking for some tin to sleeve the powerpole and the chainsaw to cut back some branches |
Mercury (1316) | ||
| 590523 | 2007-10-01 14:18:00 | UPDATE: We've been busy the last couple of weeks but finally got back to the rats today . A couple of hours spent removing some non-working airconditioning ducts from under the house so we could move (big squashy things in the way of everything) then around the edges with a torch looking for holes in the bottom plate . Nothing in the bit we could move in so it was commando style crawling up the slope to the low height bit and lying there on tummys searching for signs with a torch . (I'm getting too old for this!) Wow . . . serious stuff . . . Everybody Eek'd and Eww'd at the thought of forking and boiling water on the little guys, and you're under the house with a torch to fry them like a flamethrower? Isn't that a little over the top? I mean, you couldda set fire to the underside of your palace with the flames and the little burning fur balls if they got to run after your immolating them . Upsidedowners are a little more psycho about ratsl I guess . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 590524 | 2007-10-01 17:05:00 | Nothing in the bit we could move in so it was commando style crawling up the slope to the low height bit and lying there on tummys searching for signs with a torch . (I'm getting too old for this!)Ah, you know "commando style" is a common term used to describe going around without your underwear on . . . ? :eek: Everybody Eek'd and Eww'd at the thought of forking and boiling water on the little guys, and you're under the house with a torch to fry them like a flamethrower? . NZ English: Torch = hand light . Not sure what is worse, crawing up slopes minus the underwear or the thought of setting fire to the critters . :horrified Anyway, rats are very good climbers and I've seen them run along power line to houses before as well . |
Jen (38) | ||
| 590525 | 2007-10-01 17:38:00 | Hey Jen: I must drive you nuts..I am up when your Island Paradise is asleep...and yet you are here when I post many times. Did you draw the short straw again? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 590526 | 2007-10-01 20:16:00 | Gee guys, you've made my day! LOL. No, I was not crawling up slopes under a house naked and waving a fiery tar filled branch. Surfer joe obviously watches too much TV. NZ is a little further advanced than the Survivor series! Try a powerful light on a long extension lead and a hand held battery operated light. Also dressed in old jeans and tee shirt lying on tummy moving forward with assistance of elbows and toes ducking head under beams and trying to avoid filthy spiders' webs. The only branch that I was waving was a short stick to break up and remove the spiders' webs before my head reached them. |
Mercury (1316) | ||
| 590527 | 2007-10-01 20:36:00 | Still a strange mental image..got any pixs to allay my ideas? | SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 590528 | 2007-10-02 05:07:00 | So basically your mental image is of someone crawling naked under a house waving a survivor style flaming branch in one hand, a flame thrower in the other, yelling "wooeh" and sending fur covered balls of fire in all directions. Burnt holes in floors and walls as background images with audio of screaming rats. And you want pictures to prove it wrong. Well, if you think we had spare hands for a video camera as well... |
Mercury (1316) | ||
| 590529 | 2007-10-02 19:52:00 | Try Metla's helmet cam...you gotta prove to me and all the ASPCA-types that you are NOT making burnt offerings out of rodents....after all they have rights too! Perhaps yelling "wooeh" is a lot to ask...stealthy silence is much better in producing quality result. The audio is optional too..but a nice touch anyway. |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 590530 | 2007-10-02 20:37:00 | Aside from the fact that there is a certain age when one should stop crawling naked under a house - I believe it is about three - we have now established that there are no rat runs under there. So, as I don't feel like repeating the experience pixs are out. However will contemplate the idea of video as certain branches adjacent to house and power lines are removed. If I stand at a decent distance with camera whilst branches are felled and IF they fall the wrong way, or rats are lurking in them waiting for their next flying leap, pixs could be interesting. |
Mercury (1316) | ||
| 590531 | 2007-10-03 22:54:00 | rats like Milo, they rips all my milo and they eat it. | tamatama14 (12747) | ||
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