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Posted on 05/03/2026 4:03:26 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
Night after night, Doug Perry and his wife Barbara were plagued by the sound of rats munching on cables and scurrying around their Idaho home as they tried to sleep.
The couple got so fed up, they filled their house with sticky glue pads and traps and set up a Ring camera in the kitchen to try and catch them.
Every night, they would be woken by a notification that the vermin invaders were back in their kitchen. But Doug said the 'smart' rats often evaded them, escaping back to their hideout through a tiny cable hole behind the TV before they could get downstairs to catch them.
'My wife was going crazy,' Doug, 71, of Boise, told the Daily Mail. 'It was a long, drawn-out process.
'They're so quick and so fast. They can jump 6ft. They're horrible.'
For several years, this has become a common occurrence for residents of Ada County as sightings of vermin have been growing at a rapid rate and costing residents thousands in private pest control.
Residents, like Doug, told the Daily Mail they've had to take matters into their own hands as lawmakers have failed to help them.
'We tried everything and nothing worked,' Doug told the Daily Mail.
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Damn rats.
GET BIGGER CATS.
DI NOT FEED CATS ANYTHING
NORMAL BARN CATS ONLY HAVE ACCESS TO WATER-—NEVER ‘FED’.
Expecting the government to help with their rat problem is called ‘a sign’.
Snakes and cats.
Had ‘em here in Oregon too-huge ones, so huge the cats feared them.
Used this and made my own containers so other animals couldn’t get at it:
https://www.domyown.com/contrac-soft-bait-p-18060.html
my experience with rats
is the glue pads and traps are iffy
rats are very smart
the only thing that worked was poison
but if there are pets and kids not a good option
He could use a .45, like Orr in Catch-22 or like Big Jule in the Damon Runyon story “The Hottest Guy in the World”.
It works.
Get a Jack Russell Terrier. They are shown to be death on rats & bigger & possibly faster than cats.
Thank you
Hopefully will never need it
Plus, you have a really cool casting kids at school might not easily guess.
They need to do the same thing for all Rats.
Actually, the entire country is inundated with Rats, with a “D”.
It is not the nicest thing to do but it worked. And glue traps are worse IMHO.
Your mileage may vary.
Get snakes. When the rats are gone. Get hogs. When the snakes are gone. Smokem if you gotem.
This is a BS article. They blame the evil Republicans for not paying for everyone’s pest control.
Meanwhile, they admit people blame democrats from California and other blue states for bringing the rats with them. But of course they say there is “no evidence” of that.
I’m sure there’s a problem, but the homeowner highlighted in the article stopped his “infestation” by killing a single rat.
It was too much for him to seal up the tv cable hole the rat was using to go in and out.
I smell a rat.
And the Jack Russell Terrier will fetch your slippers. 😃
You can always use pliers on their neck.
That is quick, once in a glue trap.
You know, I’ve had days where it seemed my intestine was trying to get rid of plaster…
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