Saturday, January 28, 2012

Rats!

corner stuff

Made a very disturbing discovery yesterday morning. 

In the corner of the utility room, between the crate where our Dachshunds sleep and the wall, back behind the dog food bowl, were a bunch of rat droppings!

Oh, damn! 

We have a rat! 

Now, what to do – we can’t set out traps, the dogs will set them off……

Wait a darn minute – our dogs are hunters!  They chase squirrels all day long and will bark for hours at a squirrel that they know is safe just outside the fence.  There is no way that a rat could venture into that corner, even if the pups were locked up for the night.  They would raise such Hell they could be heard in Galveston.

A closer inspection revealed that the rat turds were actually doodle bugs.  A whole bunch of them apparently came in the other day when we had that three inches of rain, then congregated in that corner and died.

I have no idea what killed them, but I don’t really care.  I’m just thankful that they were what they were.

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