Rats! Literally. Warning: PIP.

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OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!

My roommate who has the basement room found a rat in her bathroom this morning. Naturally, she and I got our male roommate to take care of it. (Such great feminists!) After a long time - and a lot of screeching from the rat - he got it trapped and released it outside.

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[rosiedozie]

Blegh

[krystee]

AHH! It's huge!!

[biogirl21]

Wow, that is a large rat!

[bazealina]

You do know it will be back right? Taking it outside just means that it will find its way back to his "home" in my opinion. I would get some serious traps and start the extermination process..
That is awful!

[pugz]

AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


OMFG THAT RAT IS FUCKING HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


MUST BLEACH MY EYEBALLS!

[Becca]

You let it go?? I give him 10 minutes to find his way back. Blech.

Time to call an exterminator!

[M]

Dec 30, 2012 11:09:40 GMT -5 @bazealina said:

You do know it will be back right? Taking it outside just means that it will find its way back to his "home" in my opinion. I would get some serious traps and start the extermination process..
That is awful!

This.

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Dec 30, 2012 11:09:40 GMT -5 @bazealina said:

You do know it will be back right? Taking it outside just means that it will find its way back to his "home" in my opinion. I would get some serious traps and start the extermination process..
That is awful!

Yes, but this was the Sunday morning quick fix. We are contacting our property manager to have someone come set traps/check for entry points. But for the moment, we just wanted the thing out of her bathroom!

[MadamePresident]

Impressive that he caught it. I actually think rats are kind of cute.

[countthestars]

Ew!!

[zarapipe]

Man how did they catch that?


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That is like ratzilla - OMG I would be freaking out!!

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I would be crying and frantically dousing my house in bleach.

[blueballoon]

Poor guy, I love rats. I'm not getting why everyone thinks he's so huge, that's a perfectly normal sized rat.

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Dec 30, 2012 11:35:15 GMT -5 papiercherri said:

I would be crying and frantically dousing my house in bleach.

The plastic container and cookie sheet have already been thrown out.

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OMG--I would die.

[catbus]

Dec 30, 2012 11:51:23 GMT -5 blueballoon said:

Poor guy, I love rats. I'm not getting why everyone thinks he's so huge, that's a perfectly normal sized rat.

Yeah, in my mind "huge" would be a rat you mistake for a cat in low light. Which is what happened to my mom a while back when she saw a "cat" running along her fence railing at night. Not a cat, but a rat, she realized when it reached the portion under the streetlight. But they're right by the water, so there are lots of big Norway (sewer) rats around.

[rikki]

I'd be on my way to the nearest hotel. So sorry you have to deal with this!

[krystee]

The only rat I've seen in person was our class pet in fifth grade and it looked smaller than that. It might not be huge for a rat, but it's much larger than any creature I've had in my house before!

[gibbinator]

I'm amazed he caught it in such a tiny container.

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Dec 30, 2012 11:56:43 GMT -5 L said:

OMG--I would die.

This.
Absolutely dead I would be.

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Dec 30, 2012 11:51:23 GMT -5 blueballoon said:

Poor guy, I love rats. I'm not getting why everyone thinks he's so huge, that's a perfectly normal sized rat.

They are like huge mice.

Mice in a home are bad enough, large mutant mice the size of household pets are scary.

When I was a kid there was this small community of trailers down by a river in my small town. There was a story in our newspaper about a kid there that got his fingers chewed off by a rat.

Not cute.

[thedutchgirl]

I'd move out until the extermination process was done. OMG.

[vegas]

Dec 30, 2012 12:02:23 GMT -5 @barefootbarista said:

A rat walked by me and my brother when he was at Howard, at the McD's across the street from campus. That MFer looked us straight in the eyes like,"what? I eat here too!", picked up a piece of bread on the ground and kept it moving. He had to weigh 10 lbs.

I imagine he lives near that McDs, in a sewer with some turtle friends that have Renaissance artist names.

This is awesome

[liveintheville]

Dec 30, 2012 11:51:23 GMT -5 blueballoon said:

Poor guy, I love rats. I'm not getting why everyone thinks he's so huge, that's a perfectly normal sized rat.

I agree. Rats are the size of squirrels at the very least. Do you have any construction happening nearby? Whenever they dig up roads or put up buildings they come out in droves.

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Omg! Ick!!!

[Roc A Bee]

Omg!

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Dec 30, 2012 12:02:23 GMT -5 @barefootbarista said:

A rat walked by me and my brother when he was at Howard, at the McD's across the street from campus. That MFer looked us straight in the eyes like,"what? I eat here too!", picked up a piece of bread on the ground and kept it moving. He had to weigh 10 lbs.

Well, I am a few miles from Howard, so maybe this guy is a cousin of that giant rat.

Dec 30, 2012 12:02:23 GMT -5 @barefootbarista said:

I imagine he lives near that McDs, in a sewer with some turtle friends that have Renaissance artist names.

DEAD.

I shall call the rat Master Splinter.

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Oh my goodness- that thing is huge! Ew ew ew