Mortified!

[MadWorld74]

A few days ago I spied a large RAT in my back garden scampering about quite brazenly. I toyed with the idea of what to do about this rodent. I don't like to kill anything, even a filthy bloody rat. But, my sense got the better of my compassion and I put down some bait.

Rat was gone. Job done. ?

Then then worst stench that I have ever smelt started invaiding the house. Holy crap. After two days of ripping up floorboards and searching high and low, we eventually thought to pull out the fridge.

The rat had somehow gotten into my kitchen (the only way it could have gotten in was by the back door like a fricking house guest!), the rat had gotten into my kitchen, round the back of the fridge and ONTOP OF THE MOTOR that works the refridgeration part of the unit.

There it lay for two days, dead and being cooked by the heat of the motor.

I am mortified. The smell was not of this world.

My house is spotless and is even more spotless now.

Has this ever happened to anyone else?

I feel I'm going to have to eat out forever.

If ever a rat could give the ultimate pay-back to a human, it was this rat.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Not quite the same thing, but my daughter and I watched fascinated one day as a somewhat drowned mouse went round and round with the clothes in the washing machine.

[capt_birdseye]

Did you have rat-atouille for dinner?

[MadWorld74]

oh no! I don't mind mice (not in a washing machine) but generally. But a f-ing huge big rat? We could smell it when we opened the fridge!

[bob]

what bait did you use

Bob S

[MadWorld74]

quite clearly the wrong stuff!! it came IN to die instead of going OUT to die! some blue seed like things...

(I was also horribly hung over, see Lucky 7's thread),so it was all a bit of a trauma....

[Huggers]

I was practising my accordion in front of friends I wanted to impress when a mouse came out from behind the skirting, tottered up to my feet and dropped dead.I was the last to realize what had happened and thought all the dropped jaws were ones of admiration for my playing.

[MadWorld74]

your accordion playing really was bad wasn't it to actually kill a mouse. Impressive! Maybe you can come round and play in my garden to scare off any other pesky rodents that might be lurking. ;-)

[whitehouse92]

You're never more than 5 yards from a rat (rodent kind) in London. It's not reflection on you or your spotless housekeeping. We had similar problem in previous house where the rat, having taken the poison, had somehow climbed into the utility room ceiling to die - and yes the smell was obscene.

[Huggers]

Yes indeed MadWorld, at least there may now be an upside to my playing.

[Annasfield]

Gross - how traumatic for you. Reckon you should have a large drink to recover from it. :)-D

[MadWorld74]

we thought it was in the ceiling to start with and before ripping that apart as well, we thought (lightbulb!) check behind the fridge. Maybe I'm being soft, but it's upset me. My stupid fault for trying to kill it in the first place.

[Mark]

That's really quite rough, I hope the smell goes soon. We had a roofer working on our roof recently and he said from up there in broad daylight he could see a big rats, as bold as could be, walking round the edge of the garden and out on to the pavement following people down the road. For what it's worth, thank you for getting rid of one of them.

[MadWorld74]

the fact that it was in my fridge, is just too much....and as for that drink Annasfield....I'm off the booze!

[benjaminty]

I'm sure they are everywhere ... I know they've been in our next door neighbours garden as it was untouched for a few years and another neighbour had seen them. In fact when I moved in to my house a few years ago there was a rat trap out there.

*saunters off to close back door*

I've also been for a walk at night and walked through the The Gardens and a rat was quite happily walking along next to me without a care in the world.

I guess they are everywhere and some more ballsy than others. Absolutely loads around the pond/lake behind Beaubery House!

Poor MW74 ... put it this way ... how likely is that to ever happen to you again?

[MadWorld74]

dunno how likely it is......i shudder to think

[Annasfield]

Me too - I'll have a pain killer on your behalf. ;-)

[SteveT]

They have increased enormously since the introduction of waste disposal units. They supply pre-chewed food to them via the sewer.

MW74 you got yours and did it in, good for you a 100% success rate, you should start your own company with that kind of record, you could call it 'Extermine Vermin'.

You might get called into the palace, you might get rich and famous, er can I have your autograph now:)

[MadWorld74]

we could go into business together SteveT. You could provide me with all my slogans and jingles. Lovely man you are.

[giggirl]

If it was me, the fridge would have to go. I would be in John Lewis first thing picking out a new one. But that's just me.

[SeanMacGabhann]

* makes innocent whistling noise *

[candj]

A friend of mine poisoned a rat in his garden and it managed to die in an inaccessible spot on a hot water pipe behind his washing machine in the basement. It took two builders ripping the place apart for a week to discover where this odor was coming from and as it was wafting up to the kitchen above my friend thought that it was rotting veg for a whole week before. Really disgusting. Sorry for your trauma. I thought ED had a fairly robust cat population to keep rats away?

[Bellenden Belle]

Oh Madworld you have my sympathy.... completely.

I have just come upstairs to write this having had a near fit in my kitchen. I bent down to pick up what I thought was a small piece of fluff on the floor.... I didn't have my glasses on.... just about to pick it up when I realise, lying there is a quarter of the head of a mouse -- no bigger than my thumbnail, one perfect little ear and one sad eye gazing at me. Agggggghhhhhh.

Whole mice brought in as gifts is one thing - but dismembered limbs and half heads makes me think I am living with the feline version of Hannibal Lector.

[SteveT]

Times are hard Belle, we all have to learn to share and play nicely:)

A very useful and industrious pet you have there, many cats are useless at bringing home the bacon.

[karter]

I think Belle should lend MW74 her cat for a couple of days.....just in case.