Sunday, January 06, 2008

Outsmarting a Rat

There's been a rat in the PJ house which has outsmarted us for some time. We know where it comes into the house from and despite several attempts to pull away towel racks or anything which may aid its route, it still came and went as it pleased.

Traps were set but somehow, the bait didn't appeal to it. We coaxed it with bread, bak kut teh meat, laced it with curry as it bit through a few curry packets and even stuck a packet of Mamee in the trap. All this in vain.

Then last Friday, KS and I saw the rascal scampering into the kitchen. I attached a packet of biscuits in the trap and set it in the kitchen. But knowing how smart its been with traps, I figured it would probably be another unsuccessful attempt.

So I took out an old magazine, opened it and faced down, slathered some rat glue on the cover and placed it as strategically as possible. Fingers crossed, I went to sleep.

Voila! Next morning, here's the result:

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Hopefully this is the only smart rat around.

Thanks, Marie Claire, for ushering in the Rat Year!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

what on earth is rat glue??? is it a flavoured kind of glue where the rat is attracted to the smell/taste and then jumps onto it? I can't possibly see how a rat would WANT to cross over glue!
Geli pic lah - is the rat dead?

jo said...

rat glue is a glue specially developed to stick to rats fur, doesn't dry up. i forgot to mention i placed a pinch of mooncake in the middle of it, which may have attracted it.

and yes, when i took this photo, it was still alive, struggling to free itself.

Anonymous said...

Ewww! Get rid if the evidence before SPCA gets a whiff of this!

Grace said...

So how did you dispose of it in the end? It looked so cute there. Ish, so cruel lah you!