Totallyrad

Lary Ellis (Top)

Those things can be pretty mean when they want to be

Many years ago I lived in a small house down by the river and in doing some yard work one Saturday I filled in a couple holes I found in the dirt next to the porch slab, not thinking a thing about it.

Boy that was a HUGE mistake Apparently there was a colony of river rats living under that concrete slab and I closed off their only exit points so that night they moved into the house

I was laying in bed and heard what sounded like chewing in a wall and knew it had to be a Rat so I got up and loaded bird shot into my 22 mag pistol. I walked out through the living room and into the kitchen and turned on the light, it was one of those old circular florescent jobs that took about 5 seconds and 2 blinks before it came on. When it did it looked like Disneyland in my kitchen

There had to be 20 of those Norway rats jumping off counter tops, Refrigerator and anything else they could climb on..... I was stunned for a few seconds just trying to process what I was seeing Most of them ducked in under cabinets and out of site except for a couple younger ones and one BIG old Mama that advanced toward me in the middle of the kitchen.

It was pretty obvious this rat was willing to fight over her young ones and when she got close enough I blasted her with the bird shot....... Need less to say I grabbed a shovel and opened up those holes again and put a bunch of traps and poison out to get rid of that infestation. Had I not filled in those holes I would never have known they were living under that concrete slab.

Rats I hate em, useless, filthy beasts and I was glad to get rid of them.

Totallyrad

Now I understand the whole "bright light at night" thing. (flashbacks........again)

cougar

City cats are wimps.

chaikwa

Couldn't quite make the grade to live in a culvert, eh?

Hvytrkmech

My cat is a killing machine, it would have been curtains for that rat.




Thanks for sharing that vid, I needed that laugh.

cincydiesel

Now thats funny

Red3quarter

When I've worked in the steel mill I saw some rats about the size of that cat. They were mean ugly things. One guy put a cat into a service pit to chase out the rats, well the opposite happened, the rat beat up the cat pretty good and the came came running out of the pit.

knc77

I have a small Jack Russel Terrier that would have turned that rat into lunch. She will tear right into a raccoon almost twice her size if she thinks she has backup. Terriers are way better than cats for rodent control.

grouch

I bought an old car once that was about a mile from the Ohio river and right next to a dumpster. When we opened the trunk, two large rats jumped out, onto my leg then onto the guy next to me and then off to the weeds.

If I'd had a pistol on me, I'd have probably shot the neighborhood up but missed both of them. You never saw so many grown men jump at one time in your life.

BullyDogJason

^^^ LOL.. made your butt pucker huh?

Bark

When I see somebody eating them on travel channel it makes me want to puke. I would probably eat one if I had to but not just for kicks.

grouch

It all happened too fast for any puckering. One of the guys with me screamed like a little girl. He still hasn't heard the end of that one. He's always calling everybody else sissy's and such. I normally don't harbor ill will towards any living thing. We all have our place in the ecosystem. However, going down the road, I saw a rat jump out of the car body and the trailer tire ran over it when it bailed and I didn't shed any tears.

Scotty

One time at band camp...whoops

Years ago a friend of mine was in charge of the yacht club and had a camper he would stay in. One year the camper was sold and was getting replaced with a larger one. During the time he was without a trailer he and I would stay in the yacht club on cots at night. One night I could hear the rats running all through the ducting. It was crazy how loud they were. I had to go to the little boys room and when I got there I cornered a large black and white rat and it jumped over 2-1/2 feet straight up at me! This rat was huge. I kicked at it a couple of times and then it scaled the wood wall and dove up and into the heat duct.

Awhile later they started running again. We had fish nets and our .22's ready for action. The moonlight illuminated the yacht club area where we were staying real well and as I followed the chatter in the pipes in the ceiling I saw a rat fall out of the duct and it landed right on my buddy. Screeching came from the rat and my friend. He wrapped it up inside his sleeping bag and then we started stomping it in the sleeping bag. The dang thing got away!

The next morning I was sitting outside with my .22 nearby and along comes that big rat. I shot it three times and it was still not dead! I then got a noose around its neck and hung it in the water where it would drown.
However, the next day I pulled the rope up and the rat was still alive! Not doing real well though. No bull...still alive after all that. We burned that one.

Later we set traps and bait. It was insane how many rats we trapped and found poisoned...I had found a total of 57 that summer and we started trapping again the next spring. Finally the Board of Directors for the Yacht Club shut it down for the professional exterminators to clear.

One of our beer drinking hobbies out in the country was to take our shot guns, several boxes of beer and set up a half circle around the garbage dump.
Once we got into position and within about 20 min you could hear the rats running and scavenging. We would turn on all of our headlights and start blasting away at the beady little pink eyes staring back at us. We could do this half a dozen times every night we went out there. Must have been thousands of them out at the dump.

Freaky rodents.

Lary Ellis (Top)

I had a buddy give me a call to come tow a VW Bug he had just purchased out of a field . I hooked a chain to it and was going to drag it out to the hardtop where we would winch it up on the trailer.

He was in the Bug and I had moved him about 20 ft when I saw in the mirror, the door open and he dives out of it screaming Turns out there was a nest of rats in that old car and when it got moving so did they He said they were crawling all over him trying to find a way out when he bailed

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