Wednesday, October 19, 2005
RATUS INVADUS!!!
When I got into work yesterday my office girl had been madly cleaning up the kitchen. There were droppings everywhere. Figured we had mice so I went and got some bait. Then she asked me where her lemon had gone. She has leomn in water everyday. I had thrown one out on Friday so assumed it was that one. When placing the bait I said we better check all the offices. I had won a hmaper of diet chocolate...checked that ...not touched..smart mouse I thought, knows it tastes terrible. Then in Dh office we found her lemon! Minus all the rind it had been dragged from the kitchen, past my office into his! and hidden behind his bookcase. B***y big mouse we thought. So of course we cleaned and scrubbed, decided we had to buy a new toaster and then tried not to think about it. On telling Dh last night he replied "yes there is a rat down the back because the guys don't clean up after themselves." By the time I got to work all had been unveiled. In the mens kitchen at the other end of the factory a rat (or more) has built a nest behind their fridge. There were enough papers to fill a garden bin. One of the men told me that for two weeks he had been coming in and finding bits of paper on the floor. Turns out the rat had made a little house, with food stores as well, raided from the mens lunchroom. Now it has started chewing a bigger hole so must be getting fatter. Then we worked out it climbed the wall, ran along the crane beams to visit our office!!! So major clean up this morning and bait laid everywhere. The mystery of the alarm is now solved because the beam he used to get from one end to the other travels past a motion sensor. Glad I didn't meet him the other night!!
Posted by michelle ::
6:25 pm ::
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