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so we have owned our home now since october 2008. love our house - but yeah - DON'T love the little "housemates" that sometimes come along with it...(not talking about our pets, lol) but yeah - so we first noticed about 2 weeks ago that there was a rat (yes, a RAT not a mouse) in the garage as my husband had bought a nice big plastic tub to put our outside dog's food in...well - the lid had somehow gotten a whole in it - and you could tell it was scratch marks...

so we put out rat poison (don't worry the dogs never go in the garage) - and caught it! found it dead and DH took care of it...well then the other day I came home and saw a dead rat outside on our deck (which is attached to the house and the garage with the breezeway in front of the deck and the breezeway connects the garage and house...) so outside - where one of our dogs is all day long was a dead rat. FUN! so DH cleaned that one.

I ran some errands today - came home - and guess what was INSIDE the breezeway on the step that goes INTO the house? yup - another dead rat.

i was going to leave it for DH to clean up - and I took the dog outside in the yard to play with her - only to find A SECOND (ok, yeah actually makes FOURTH) dead rat out in the yard! so I put on as much protective gear as possible - got the broom and garbage bag and cleaned up the nastiness myself...but of course - being concerned - I decided to start cleaning out the garage...

here's the reallllllly gross part - if you're grossed out easily, stop reading now...

yeah - cleaned out the back of the garage - and i'm not joking you (no dead rats, which was good) - but the amount of rat droppings I cleaned up out of our garage. I had to get a painter's mask because it was THAT foul! I have never had a more disgusting day than today.

and - yes i did find ONE more...out on the deck when I went to fill up the bucket to clean/bleach the garage floor - I saw something furry (and dead) sorta buried under the deck - DH came out to help me clean that one up.

so 5 dead rats. yeah. i think i'm done for the day!

i HAD planned on spending all day working on wedding stuff down in our basement...yeah - not so much! oh well - at least it's all cleaned up now and it's not like it'd be a surprise had it gotten worse!

anyone else have any LOVELY days like mine so far with their homes?

me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! course i'm afraid they may be under the deck - which isn't exactly something we can just rip up...

yeah - that's something i'm really afraid of - i sooooo hope there's not a nest somewhere! we put out more rat poison so i guess we will just see. now, granted, our house is very old - built in 1940 - so it's not like it's a brand new housing edition or anything...i DO love our house - but we have had issues with the house...let's just hope - obviously - all the rats are gone! specially since our golden is outside all day long! the idea of her playing with them - i don't even want to think about.

yeah - i usually am a wimp - but at the same time - it NEEDED to be done. believe me, if I hadn't had that mask - there's NO way I could have cleaned it up. I can not begin to even try and describe how incredibly fowl that smell was. at least it's done and over with!

Ewww! That part where you said stop reading if you're easily grossed out, that always gets me! I always have to keep reading if I see that! hah

SO JUST AN UPDATE...

yeaaaaaah not happy right now - my husband took his car into the shop monday as somethin' was wrong with it. called me today with the "good news" - they figured out what's wrong and it's fixable! the "bad news" - the guy said "yeah - there's a wire in your transmission that looks as if a rodent of some sort chewed through it"

UGH! ya know - I'd have been "OK" with it had it just been regular maintenance/mechanical problems - but this?! these freakin' rats are costing us $560 out of our barely there wedding fund as it is! now we have to cut some things from our wedding. :( ugh.

anyways - just had to vent. calling an exterminator tonight - whether my hubby wants me to or not (he keeps thinking they'll just die with the poison set out)...

yeah - so I called critter control and they are coming out on friday. I texted my husband (who didn't want me to call critter control) and told him "don't argue, friday 5 p.m. they're coming out - I'm not letting them destroy anything else" and he just replied "ok"...

this seriously sucks. but my mom did say she'll give me more for our wedding fund, since we're using our wedding fund FOR this...i love my mom! :P

pieceacake - i'll look for those as well. thank you guys for letting me vent!!! :)

no - decks aren't usually like this - in fact it's the garage that is the issue...

WOW thats pretty gross! I really hope all of them have been killed make sure ya'll are very careful! Try cleaning the whole garage together(for your sake! lol I would FLIP if I found A LIVE rat) Maybe lay out some more rat poison just in case!

lemme take back that about the deck - the problem with rats is that they will pretty much burrow / nest ANYWHERE - it's not necisarily just because we own a deck or a house you want has one. they can live anywhere. :(

it reallllly sucks to have to pay out all this money now - but we'll get through it. and the extra to make sure they don't come back is worth it!