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yo'ma
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 Mon, Jan 23 2012, 8:26 pm
My friend bought a cat  and hasn't seen another one since  .
I put it in this section just in case someone has a rat as a pet  .
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tsiggelle
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Mon, Jan 23 2012, 8:28 pm
I would screech
then I would think rationally
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the world's best mom
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Mon, Jan 23 2012, 8:40 pm
I would move out.
I used to have hamsters as pets, but I was petrified of them. Rats are way worse than mice or hamsters.
One time, we were in the country for the summer, and I found 2 chipmunks in my bungalow. I left. They came hopping down the steps behind me, but I was convinced there were probably more. I came back, though, after dh searched the bungalow and found no trace of chipmunks anywhere. (That was a few hours later. He was in the city when I found the chipmunks.)
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Mommy3.5
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Mon, Jan 23 2012, 8:43 pm
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Scream, Move out, call my brother the exterminator.
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33055
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Mon, Jan 23 2012, 8:50 pm
Scream, move out, call Mommy 3.5's brother the exterminator. 
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MrsDash
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Mon, Jan 23 2012, 8:54 pm
A pet rat is cute. An uninvited rodent will warrant the need for a new kitty 
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yOungM0mmy
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Tue, Jan 24 2012, 7:02 am
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Move out! I did! We brought one home from the market in a box of produce, and when I found it we moved out to my parents' house. Called the exterminator, we thought it was gone, came back home, found droppings again, and we turned around and went straight back to my parents' house. Wouldn't come back until the the exterminator had confirmed they were gone and left more traps, and had a cleaner scrub the entire kitchen, including skirting boards, counters, inside every cupboard, etc.
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yo'ma
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Tue, Jan 24 2012, 8:20 am
| Squishy wrote: | | Scream, move out, call Mommy 3.5's brother the exterminator. |
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brooklyn
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Tue, Jan 24 2012, 3:08 pm
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Divorce him
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sequoia
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Tue, Jan 24 2012, 3:17 pm
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It would never happen -- I have cats
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Britmummy
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Tue, Jan 24 2012, 4:35 pm
I once did! In the house I lived in with my ex!
I found a partly-decomposed dead rat in the basement when moving some boxes around. It STANK!
I called my ex to come down but the poor little mummy's boy burst into tears and ran back into the house sobbing "I'll throw up if you make me look at it"!
So I took a spade and dug a hole in the garden, then shovelled up the rat, threw it into the hole and buried it.
And divorced the mummy's boy 
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Ruchel
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Wed, Jan 25 2012, 9:04 am
I breed rodents including rats (more demand than for guinea pigs), though these days I have been busy and not working on the "lines" (you don't match up any animal with any other, if you want to keep nice colours and features and health and personality).
My fav rats are blue, or siamese (white with black feet and nose), or skinny (hairless). I cry when a fav dies. They eat our leftovers and prevent baal tashchit. They also teach caring and responsibility to dd (yes, ds is too young ). Those used to humans are extremely friendly and social and never play rough with kids, they have this crazy instinct to know.
Now, wild rat is wild. Can be domesticated with lots of efforts but don't expect much cuddliness until the next generation.
And finally, countryside rat. Don't even try.
Any question? you can find pics in my thread below
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rovacat
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Wed, Jan 25 2012, 9:12 am
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call an exterminator right away. and do research. they are not easy animals to get rid of.
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FranticFrummie
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Thu, Feb 12 2015, 11:52 am
Domesticated, captive bred rats make lovely pets. I cried when my babies died.
Norway rats, not so much. Currently, my house is completely infested with them. B'H they don't come up in our living area, but they have colonized both the attic and the crawl space. The exterminator gave the landlord an estimate of $5,000 to insure that they were gone, because there's so much dry rot in the house that they are tunneling through all over the place.
The little beasties are chewing the wires under my dishwasher, and I've had to have it repaired 5 times in the last 4 years. ($175 service call each time.) I LOVE my dishwasher!  If they chewed anything else I think I could forgive them, but not that.
I feel bad for the critters, and I don't begrudge them a life outdoors, but when they come inside, all bets are off. I feel bad for getting them killed, but they are a serious health hazard.
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gp2.0
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Thu, Feb 12 2015, 12:15 pm
There was a foot-long rat on my FACE at night while I was asleep in my BED with my 18 month old sleeping next to me! I made a thread about it here.
We put tons of traps out. The glue traps were a fun toy, she dragged them to the basement and ate the bait. She ate three cubes of poison before we found her dead. (Thank G-d she didn't die in the wall.)
Here I found it: http://imamother.com/forum/vie.....t=rat
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Rubber Ducky
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Thu, Feb 12 2015, 12:23 pm
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If I found evidence of rats outside the house, I'd call the city. Baltimore has a rat extermination program. Inside the house I'd call an exterminator. Yesterday.
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