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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