Some Things you just don't want to see

Last week, I unfortunately discovered that I did not have some cute squirrel living in my attic as the Shoops guys had told me. After they changed the trap, they caught, (puking a little now) a pretty large rat in my attic. Now for more bad news, if you have one rat, you have more than one. Since my dog doesn't go in the attic we put the trap back out and poison that is single acting. That means it only kills what eats it and doesn't hurt what eats the rat.

Well that came in useful today. A few days ago, I got up in the middle of the night to get something to drink and starting screaming because there was one in my kitchen scrambling to hide under my dishwasher. It had been eating my dog's food. I thought this had been happening so I was feeding her only a little at a time, but she didn't finish off her food.

Now to the big moment. Today. I open the door with full hands and the door opens all the way. Mindy's food is right behind the door and she usually greets me at the door unless she was sound asleep in bed. Today she was slow to meet me. I look down and see a tail under the door where her food is. I don't go in the house but kind try to peek my head in and here comes Mindy. Well the rat starts to run off to its hiding place but it happens that Mindy is right there and she bites the hell out of it and that thing squeels. Now Mindy wants it bad. Sorry but I'm not going in that house. Unfortunately we also had a bad storm rolling in also, but I decided I would rather ride it out in my car than go in the house. Luckily Bennie was on his way.

When Bennie got home, he saw where Mindy was alerting (behind the fridge) and he moved it so she could get back there. Sure enough, she caught it's and it went further back. To make a long story short, I had to turn off the electrity because this thing had made its hiding space in the fridge by the motor, but Mindy sniffed it out and "gulp" killed it. As I said at the top, not something I wanted to see my sweet dog doing, but it is bred into her (Dachshund).