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I'm a girly-girl at heart, and I'm in Dallas. Remember that year when we had a straight-up rat epidemic? I dooooooo!!!
Dallas Has a Rat Problem, and It May Be Getting Worse
I bought an electric rat trap. $50 and worth every penny, with a caveat. I bought this in part b/c it claimed that I wouldn't see the rat - if I saw a green light, I knew to dump it. So after a few mornings, I come out to this shyt right here. Click at your own risk...
BREHS. I called my dad in TEARS begging him to dump this trap. I had my dad AND my mom laughing at me by now. (But my mom wouldn't make the trip.) My dad comes through the door talking shyt, then took one look at that tail and just stopped and looked at me for a minute. He picks up the trap and sets it back down. (Note that the tail was stiff as a board, which was freaking me out.) So b/c he's a bit of a dikk, he dumped the rat on the floor. Behold...
Later on, he told my mom that we were going to need an exorcism on my house because he was sure that the soul of that rat was going to come and kill me. (Dollar traps my ass.) That wasn't the first time I made my dad dump the trap, although I eventually got to the point where I could do it. There was this one time that the rat was so big that the nose and mouth was poking through a hole in the back of the trap (I swear to Crying Jordan this is the truth.) Well, I went to dump the rat...and it's stuck. Shook it a little...shook some more...and dropped the whole $50 trap in the trash. Pops had to get it out. Then there was the rat who actually blew halfway across the kitchen (I actually heard that one die). Walked into the kitchen the next morning and there it was in the middle of my goddamn floor...bae had to come take care of that one. (We were back together by then.)
tl;dr - buy an electric rat trip if rodents aren't your thing. I don't agree with the glue traps and the sticky paper - that's just cruel to me. I put mine out every fall, although I haven't caught one in well over a year, just a stray mouse now and again. They get rid of squirrels, too. And in case you want to see it in action (this IS the Coli), here goes.