Us vs. Rat(s)

Current score:
Rats: 6
me & jenie: 0


1. Wednesday late night, i hear jenie scream at the TOP of her lungs. jenie is not a screamer. she doesn't scream at spiders. i come out of my room, into the family room where she is. she's standing on the couch. i ask her what she's doing. she said she saw a rat run across the room. i jump on the couch and scream.

Rat(s): 1
Us: 0

2. Eventually I go back to my room. a few minutes later, jenie screams at the top of her lungs again. rat came out and ran around our family room again. i grab a broom, and while we're both standing on the couches, we start poking at things on the floor & removing them. we have some extra pillows & blankets by our side table, i remove those, and we find rat droppings. we also find two holes chewed through our sliding screen door.

Rat(s): 2
Us: 0

3. Thursday morning, jenie buys 2 types of rat traps - the snapping kind and the glue kind, and set them up around our house. later she finds holes chewed through other screens. one small one in our window screen in our family room, and one small one in our window screen in our third bedroom. she closes all the windows.

Rat(s): 3
Us: 0

4. Thursday night, after small group, i come home. no rats in traps. i look at the holes in our window screens. they're pretty small, to the point where i was thinking maybe those holes were already there and we just didn't notice them before.

friday morning, i get up and go to our family room. no rats in rat trap. look at window. say "oh. my. gosh." stinking rat has chewed through the ENTIRE bottom portion of our window screen!!! as in like a foot long and a few inches high. rat must have chewed through our screen during the night trying to get into the house, but the window was shut so it couldn't get in. at this point, we're not sure if there's one rat in our house and others outside, or if it's the same rat going in and out of the house.

Rat(s): 4
Us: 0

5. Friday night, we show olivia the traps. we leave our house at about 10:45pm. we come back home about 12:30. no rats in rat trap. we look closer - one of the snap traps is upside-down! we discover our peanut butter bait gone, the trap had snapped, but NO RAT. we re-set the trap.

Rat(s): 5
Us: 0

6. Our house is stinking hot because we can't open any windows or doors. so we leave the sliding door open, with the screen shut. we set up two glue traps next to the two holes that were chewed through. we go to bed. saturday morning, i wake up. there are rat footprints on the glue trap!!! it (they) escaped AGAIN!!!!!

Rat(s): 6
Us: 0

Saga to be continued when the rat(s) makes the next move.