I'm a cat person. And dog. Got both. My cat is a good hunter. Gets rats, mice, late at night. The back door was open. She snuck a live and kickin' rat by me and let it go in my bedroom. I know because the dog heard the excitement and alerted me. “Oatie has a @#$%^&* rat in the bedroom!” My dog swears. I think she learned swear words from Mrs. T. Luckily the wife is out of town. Scotland, last I heard. Maybe Amsterdam. I set a trap. One of those new plastic alligator jaws kind. (They are awesome!) For good measure I put the cat in the room too. Sealed off the room. Shortly there's a commotion. Kinda loud. The cat found the trap. Maybe cats like cheese? She bounced around the room, hitting the walls trying to shake the trap. Finally shook it. Lost some hair but no other injuries. She's a trooper. So, if the dang rat doesn't kill itself today I'm going in. Slept in the barker lounger. Not going to do that again. Rat's going down. I'm hoping it had mortal damage from the initial encounter and has quietly passed on to where all good rats end up. I have .45acp shotshells. Made from 30-06 brass. More later.
Cat and a rat
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A couple of rat terriers cures the cat and rat problem.
Dale Flinchum
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.... i heard you can now buy this new indoor shooting game from Amazon ... refill rats are available .
ken
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RAT IN THE BEDROOM! That's what my exwife said about me.
B.E.Brickey
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TT, You are feeding your cat too much. Otherwise it would have eaten the rat and there would not have been a problem. Suggest you open the window and set an open can of tuna on the sill. That will bring hundreds of cats to chase the rat. Ric
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Reminds me of a radio personality back in the 60's from Buffalo NY. Joey Reynolds had a song that went something like this. Rats in my room, I am troubled by these rats in my room ....... Fun times when your a teen!
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Teach your cat to use the pistol.
73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia
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Thanks for indulging me. I'm thinking much clearer now and have dropped the .45 from the story. Too much. The little beast is elusive as hell. Might be my only hunt this fall so am applying myself. Switching to Ruger .22 Mag. Single Six with CCI shot shells. Patterns good out to 1 foot.
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"Luckily the wife is out of town. Scotland, last I heard. Maybe Amsterdam."
That's awesome.
Love it when cats liberate 'gifts' in the house. I recall the late Griffin doing that with a rat then walked off and left me to it. Mrs Jeff was outside in the dark looking in the window. Not a great deal of help I have to say.
Cheers from New Zealand
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O.K. We've waited 3 days, now. Time for an update on the great Sacramento Rat Hunt. Been holding my breath about as long as I can.
Wes
P.S. My suggestion would be to starve the cat for a few days
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The king is dead, long live the king! The little rascal made it into the living room, behind the computer desk. I left the back door open again over night so it could escape but the dog and cat wouldn't back off long enough for it to get out. Somehow the thing got behind the dishwasher in the kitchen. My wife's dog kept barking at the cabinet so I'd know. A trap set under the sink was his demise. The case is closed. No doubt the cat will bring me more 'gifts'. A trap isn't very sporting but got the deed done. By the way, it was an ordinary indigenous grey rat. Back when I was keeping horses we had a true Norwegian Brown in the outbuilding. It liked oats. Took so long to get it we named it 'Red October'. Big big rat. Stared me down a couple times. My Walker hound dogs would howl at it all night. The large Norwegian rats were unintentionally imported back in the Gold Rush days. Ship into SF, then up the river on a paddle wheeler to Sacramento. Thanks again for your indulgence.
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Yep the Brown Vikings are everywhere on the west coast. Ours came from Seattle when it was the major lumber exporter to rebuild San Francisco after the earthquake in 1906. Came over the mountains back tracking the wheat and fruit rail cars. This is about as far east as they survived due to our below-zero winters nights here. Greys don't care how cold it gets, they live under and over your house.
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hey tt... ya got walkers !!.... they were the most consistently good coyote hounds we had here in iowa . of course they also looked like a real foxhound ...
ken
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Yes, I had hounds. My dream was to be a back country bear guide. Had the horses trained, but the dogs became pets. A really good hunting dog is usually kept kenneled. That was long ago. Now it's the suburbs, a Jack Russell, and memories of trophy rats.
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Either he or one of his neighbors probably has a bird feeder.
B.E.Brickey
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Walnuts!! I have a 50 year old walnut tree that produces 15 bushels of nuts each year. No body will come and pick them up. So I grind most with the lawn mower, and the rats come for the ground up meats. It does make a target rich environment.
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No idea why the rats come around. But, there is a power line along the back fence that is a critter highway to who knows what.
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Rats are ubiquitous. (and here you could say that about skunks)
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This little story reminds me of one of our colorful local characters, long deceased. One evening the gentleman was deep in his cups while sitting in front of the fireplace. A large rat came out and sat on the hearth, I guess to get warm. This character slowly reached in the end table drawer and got his .45 auto, aimed and squeezed the trigger. What the shot did to the back of the fireplace wasn't pretty. Dunno if the rat survived. GW
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