Well, not in me kitchen but in the roof space above the kitchen. The problem is that the neighbour has a loose tile to their kitchen roof and Mr Rat has gotten in there and occasionaly passes over to our roof space and dances a noisy fandango.
I informed the neighbour about this yesterday and hopefully he will fix it. Told his MIL that I was prepared to fix it for her but she just shrugged . Apparently they are a family in crisis so this is a low priority even though its a 5 minute job.
So I went out and purchase some state of the art rodent persuaders at 20 baht a go
I spent some time fiddling with these trying to figure out exactly how you set them and I have a couple of scars to prove it. That spring is exceedingly vicious and skinned me a couple of times until I treated the device with a modicum of respect. I started using these when handling it
In England they are known as heavy duty gardening gloves but I think the Aussies call them ' poofy pommy mitts ' For the sake of brevity I will refer to them as Loy Toys because its shorter he will appreciate the honour.
Finding that it was not functioning to my satisfaction I bent the central prong back and set it like this :
Now Mr Rat in theory will stand in the killing zone , yank on the fish sauce impregnated carrot, and almost instantly ........go to meet his ancestors.
I climbed out on the projecting kitchen roof yesterday afternoon, pushed up a tile and placed the trap for easy removal. Note the big plastic sheet underneath to catch all the blood and gore.
Later that evening at about 7.30 pm they was an almightly crash bang wallop and I had visions of
Mrs Bangyai thought otherwise as their was no death dirge or sound of dying rodent.
Ms Bangyai was right. Climbed out there this morning to find the trap sprung but no Mr Rat. Later on in the evening about 10 oclock there was a lot of painful rat squealing that lasted about a minute so I am hoping Rat met Cat and that's that but just in case I have set two more traps in the same place tonight.
I will keep members updated and post all gorey pictures if I manage to catch that rat. In the meantime ......some music