Rats!!

[MaryN]

Well, it's harvest time here and the rat problem has started up again. We appear to have a couple of really brazen beasties in the chicken run, and I'm determined to solve it this year. I completely lost the plot last week when one erupted from just in front of me; I just didn't see it. We have tried bait and rat traps with and without bait. No luck. OH had evidently had enough of my hissing and swearing last week and frogmarched me into the nearest country store. We now possess a .22 air rifle; quite good enough to take down a rat or two apparently. Anyway, after a bit of muttering that he hadn't fired an air rifle for years, he drew a rough target and tacked it against a wall. Loaded a pellet and promptly hit the tiny dot he had made for the bullseye! O.K. then. I now expect action. One rat stuffed and mounted As extra incentive I have promised a day of doing whatever he likes if I am presented with a dead rat.

I must point out I am not a particularly bloodthirsty person, I just hate rats!