Huge rat trying to break into my house to eat my birds!

[Tropical]

Thank gawd I finally found a condo I will be moving into soon (within 2 weeks). This house is infested with rats in the attic they make tons of noise at night it's very scary sounding.

Just as I was bringing the birds inside the house from the porch this rat ran by my feet!! I quickly shut the porch sliding glass door but the rat lingered for a while and actually tried to come through the sliding door!

This rat is NOT afraid of me at all. He stared me dead in the eyes They are dangerous... they can and will eat my tiels! Gotta get out of this dungeon ASAP!

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[Kentuckienne]

I've never seen a wild rat do that. Maybe that one is an escaped pet, frantic to get back inside from the cold?

 

[Tropical]

I've never seen a wild rat do that. Maybe that one is an escaped pet, frantic to get back inside from the cold?

It's very hot outside... I'm in south florida and it was so hot today I almost died. There are literally dozens of rats living in the attic. They make tons of noise all night long. This is my mom's house (I switched houses with my mother who didn't bother to upkeep this house which is in very poor condition infested with roaches and rats and mold and leaking roof!). This house is up for sale. I have only lived in this house for about 2 months as I was searching for a condo to move into. I finally am closing on a condo in less than 2 weeks and then I get out of this dungeon!

 

[Kentuckienne]

Ewwwwwwwww! How awful, hope you can get out of there soon!

 

[Tropical]

Ewwwwwwwww! How awful, hope you can get out of there soon!

I am super thankful I finally found a condo to move into and that it's closing in two weeks.. it's happening not a moment too soon! I am surprised my tiels and I haven't died yet in this hell hole :11:

 

[ParrotLover2001]

That is a big rat.

I've never seen a rat around here, or mice. I'm thankful for that.


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[Scott]

Horrific! Not sure that thing is full grown!

 

[EllenD]

I don't mind rats, not that I want them in my house, but they don't horrify me...The roaches on the other hand would have me living in my car as soon as I saw one. Seriously.

I had a mouse in my house over the summer, I was on a leave of absence from work due to cancer, and I'd be laying on the couch watching TV and suddenly this little white mouse would scurry across the living room, stop and look at me, then just keep on going. He's no longer with us .

I rented a duplex when I first graduated from college, it was a very old brick house that Penn State University owned back in the early 1900's, there are like 20 of them still owned and/or rented out. Some are nice, some not. Mine was a rental owned by the nicest people and good landlords, but it was weird because it was half the house they owned, the other half someone else owned. And there were many, many squirrels that lived in the attic. I'd lay awake every night listening to them play soccer up there. They'd run across the attic, then run back across, and so on all night. And my landlords couldn't do anything because my neighbor, who owned the other half of the house, had to agree to pay half. She wouldn't. I just dealt with it until one night I got home from work really late and just wanted to take a shower and go to bed. There was a metal duct that came from the ceiling in the bathroom, went down the wall and ended right above the shower stall. I figured it was old ductwork from a fan or something that was just never removed. Well that night I got in the shower and was so exhausted I could hardly stand up. Suddenly I hear what sounded exactly like the game PLINKO from The Price Is Right, when the contestant would let go of the PLINKO chip and let it bounce down the board? Yeah, that sound. And out of the vent plops a huge acorn right into my bathtub..."OK, that's it, you're kidding me right?" I just couldn't believe I was having to deal with this...Until....I heard this god awful scratching sound, like nails on a chalkboard, then a scurrying sound, like toenails on metal.....A squeal...And THUMP!!!! SQUIRREL IN MY BATHTUB!!!

Apparently the squirrels finally chewed away enough insulation in the attic to expose the old bathroom fan duct, and they decided that they would throw their acorns inside it for safe keeping. Then one little guy decided to jump inside the duct himself when he couldn't see the acorn he threw in there...I wasn't thrilled about a squirrel seeing me naked and then being chased outside to tell his little squirrel friends about what he saw. I became very popular within their community from that point on. They still write.

I moved out as soon as my lease ended 2 months later...

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[Owlet]

I don't believe that is an escaped / released pets. Has the body movements and appearance of a wild rat. I don't see an testicles on that one but as for the rats in the attic get a citrus spray of some kind. Male rats HATE citrus. I'm not 100% sure what it is about citrus but they want nothing to do with it and it's bad for them. It's not poisonous to them so if your worried about it killing them, it won't,it'll just likely drive the males away and the females will likely be quick to follow. (Citrus doesn't affect the females for some reason) coming from someone who has owned several male rats for 4-5 years. And since it's just a natural citrus spray it's unlikely to hurt birds. Just give the attic and maybe your house perimeter a good spray down every other day or so. If that doesn't work there's lots of DIY humane rat traps and such that you could make.

 

[Tropical]

I have a MAJOR phobia with cockroaches (it's the worst!).. roaches gross me out so much I have trouble even picking up a dead ones I killed

I don't mind rats, squirrels or other creatures... but rats and even squirrels in the attic is a serious problem. They can cause fires... they also urinate and defecate in the attic and walls of your house and chew through insulation/wires etc. They can and will cause a lot of damage to a house... I mean the wild ones...not the pets one

... but still... oh man... nothing in the entire world freaks me out more than a cockroach... yuck!

 

[Kentuckienne]

I hate roaches in the house, but we live in the woods, have firewood stacked on the porch, and wood roaches live under the bark and get in through cracks under doors, so I bought a million sticky insect traps and put near the doors. Never see them now.

For raccoons, squirrels in the attic the best deterrent I found was a strobe light that flashes intermittently. They can't stand it and door get used to it. If you can't get the landlords to take care of sealing up the attic, maybe they'd go for that?

 

[itzjbean]

Oh wow, I am so glad this thread is here and other people have vermin in their house, I'm not the only one!!!!

We rent a very old brick house (built in 1901, remodeled in 60's into a duplex, then again 80's) and we have mice. Compared to that HUGE rat they are pretty small, and because we have two cats we don't see them OFTEN, but we know they're there as one will occasionally end up dead in their room, or one will make the mistake of running around while they're awake. We used to get centipedes the first couple years we were there (Don't get me started on those things, I grabbed one once in a dish towel accidently and never recovered) but thankfully haven't seen them in a couple years. We've never had roaches, thank god!!

We can't wait to move to a newer home *sigh*

 

[Tropical]

This thread made me remember many yrs ago when I was in high school there were some JERKS (sick in the head) in my high school who thought it was FUNNY to pick up baby mice throwing them against the concrete and seeing how high they could throw the baby mice into the air and even stumping on them and watching the baby mice squirm in pain and stabbing them with a pen and pulling on their tails. Dumb little high school boys thinking it was funny to unnecessarily torment and torture another life just for their amusement!

I actually tried to fight them LOL I was so mad I was foaming at the mouth!

 

[Owlet]

I would of called authorities on them for animal abuse, that is just not right.

 

[Tropical]

I would of called authorities on them for animal abuse, that is just not right.

I was screaming at them to stop and when they wouldn't I lost control and I charged at them... shoved them. The gym teacher yelled at them to stop and that was the only penalty they got. I was only about 15 yrs old when this happened... if I saw that happen today I would have gone to principals office and raised heck. Too many sick jerks in this world. Whenever I see a mouse I think of that experience. It really was horrifying to watch :02: