Day 36 – Benji and I were chatting today about the rat problem again. It ended up with me telling him about my previous encounter with rats. Many years ago I explained Auntie Tania and Auntie Georgie had a hairdressing salon and I lived upstairs with Louis dog. Benji didn’t understand what a hair salon was until I explained it was a bit like Fine and Dandy his dog groomer but for people. Well we had a serious rat issue and went through a great deal of effort to sort with the issue. Sadly none of us thought through the probable result of leaving rat poison down over night whilst not knowing where the rats lived. Once they started keeling over and kicking their furry little legs in the air we slightly too late realised they lived in the walls and behind the wood panelling. We didn’t need a nose as effective as Louis to realise that dead rat behind the panels was not a good thing. Enter the deratter tool (really should have got a patent on it). So Tania and I worked out with a great deal of sniffing that we had a decomposing rat in the middle salon behind the wood panelling. We carefully removed the end piece and spotted the smelly culprit approximately 3 feet back. So the problem was how do we get the rat out without dismantling the shop. With the aid of a stick, duck tape and a very large table spoon I contrived the deratter tool. The rat was thus removed and so Tania and I held our noses and carefully lifted the smelly rat out of the confined space. A couple of Tesco express bags later we were done. 1 rat down many more to go!
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