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

[strings]

Perhaps explosives may work.*

*Strings, or any of his affiliates, cannot be held personally liable for any collateral, structural or cosmetic damage caused by explosives in the process of Rat removal.

 

[countrygull]

It's here:
My seagull in a chimney - North Stand Chat

Empathy.....

I am now off to try to find a humane rat trap or encourage one of the cats to enter the back of the washing machine...
While I'm at it I shall pick up some tranquilisers for Mrs CG who witnessed said rat running around the kitchen and hasn't been in there since.

 

[countrygull]

Plan A
Get a hoover attachment, put it over the entrance where the rat got in and suck that fucker out.


Plan B
Get a hose and put it over the way the rat went in and pump that bitch full of water. The rat will try and get out the way it got in, it will not sit there and drown, you won't have a dead rat in your machine.

This, the napalm, the explosives: they are all good options: except the kitchen was new last year and I want it to stay that way!!!

 

[clippedgull]

Empathy.....


While I'm at it I shall pick up some tranquilisers for Mrs CG who witnessed said rat running around the kitchen and hasn't been in there since.

Have YOU actually seen the rat?

Or is this a way of Mrs CG getting out of cooking dinner?

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

I bet it's not even there, or you, killed it with turning washing machine on

 

[gullshark]

Will ordinary pet shops sell them? Or would I be better getting a man in? I fear time may run out - it's been in there since last night.

Yup, or any decent hardware store.

 

[Easy 10]

Yuu've got to fix that rat, is what you've got to do.
You've got to fix that rat.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

set fire to your house

 

[Juan Albion]

A liberal spraying of fly spray under the washing machine should encourage it to come running out. Keep the cat handy.

 

[countrygull]

Have YOU actually seen the rat?

Or is this a way of Mrs CG getting out of cooking dinner?

I saw the last two inches of its tail disappearing into the washing machine. Mrs CG has saw it running, jumping and shrieking to escape the cat - she said it was incredibly loud - before it disappeared under the units. Unless the rat has learnt how to use a cat flap it must still be there because there is nowhere else for it to go - especially with 3 cats on guard. Regretably the pet shop didn't sell a humane killer - and Mrs CG didn't dare buy the normal type incase the cats get to the bait first!!! So tonight I'll try the fly spray and cat theory - and if that doesn't work, tomorrow I'll buy an inhumane trap and lock the cats out for the night.

 

[cardboard]

Any sort of propellant spray will get it out especially if you light it
Job Done

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

OK. Get a big black bin liner. Put your entire washing machine in it. Get a cup of bleach, and a bucket of ammonia. Put the cup carefully in the bucket so it floats on the top. Do NOT spill any. Seal the black bin liner, and give the bucket a whack. That will spill the bleach into the ammonia, and voila - toxic fumes. The rat will either suffocate, or will go batshit and try to escape - at which point the cats get it, or you get it with a baseball bat. If you miss the rat, you run the risk of taking out a cat, but hey, collateral damage.

Make a video please.

 

[NMH]

Feed it. It has already moved in, and will help itself to anything you have available, including the cats food.
Throw the fooking cat out anyway, they are useless.

A rat, new pet, end of.