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August 7, 2008
Rats!
I finally got around to calling an exterminator to come look at the basement, and just to make sure he wouldn't say "nope, no problem here" we walked in to find a dead roof rat on the floor.
He looked around the basement, agreed with me that there was no obvious point of entry (which is bad - it means that stopping them will be difficult/damn near impossible) and then proceeded to enumerate my options.
To my pleasant surprise, option 1 was "handle it yourself" - buy some spring traps and peanut butter, overalls, a respirator, and eye protection to use while cleaning up, and fight the good fight.
Options #2 was to pay him a chunk of money to treat the basement and perimeter of the house for a month, and see where to go from there, based on results. He noted that we "live next to a forest" and as such, there's little chance of us building a strong perimeter, so it's probably an ongoing effort.
So we paid him, and he set a bunch of traps and bait boxes, and he'll be back next week to check the traps and boxes.
The first shot has been fired...
Posted by dberger at August 7, 2008 7:41 PM