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Speaker 1 (00:09):
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
App Got anything Good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast. Saturday Night.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm watching TV right and I hear this horrific noise
and I realize it's a rat so close under the foreboard.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I've got my feet on. I felt like it was
actually going to break through and eat me.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
They've got those big the noise and it just sounded massive.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Isn't rat season? Because no, Seriously, I know we.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Have like Shark week on the Scummy Channel, rat season,
favorite season.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Channel seven show Tonight a rat season, Shane.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Last night, I was sitting at his or in his office,
just doing some stuff on the laptop, and the window
blind was upright. It was nighttime, and I could have
sworn that I heard someone tapping on the window, and
I thought, oh, I think there's someone at the window.
This is really scary. So I just called out, hey, Chris,
can you come up here like urgently? And I said,
(01:24):
I think there's someone at the window.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Job in this life, isn't it to be called up
the frontline as cannon. So does that look? Can you
come out there and see what is? Yeah, it might
be an arm gang. I just go out, Yeah, my slippers. Hello,
anyone here but to chop me out? My family make
a coick getaway.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The dog was outside, he said, well, Presley hasn't even bark.
Trust me, if there was someone in the backyard, he'd
go ballistic. And he goes, it's probably just the rats
because we have like.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Those casual with that noisy, Like.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
This thing was making a hell of a noisy. Screened
out to my wife. She starts screaming, like, I don't
even sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Pet to sleep. That's when they get busy. They're not
getting busy on me.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I thought you both would have a clean house.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I didn't think you know that cruel space you will
have here? Yeah, what do you actually do you do?
We have to go and like get a rat catch well, I.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Said to Chris, I think the time has come that
we need to get someone pros.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
A professional.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
His job is to catch in the room.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You have pest control.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
People don't like and rats and mice.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You watch out for termite, but.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You wouldn't hear a termite munch bunching.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, No, you wouldn't know, You're not like a rat.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No, this thing was like, yeah, it was just like
and I'm not. I was watching a very violent show
mob Land at the moment, which is like a gangster thing,
and I felt I never felt more unmanly. I was
watching Tom Hardy beat someone with a knuckle douster. I'm
(03:09):
so scared right now.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
What is it as well? When you hear an animal
like that the hairs, something happens.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
There's an ice feeling you have and it's the hair,
literally hairs.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
In the back of your neck.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Apparently it's an evolutionary thing from the plague. Is why
humans have such a sort of visceral reaction rats, because
we've developed a fear because they, you know, almost wiped
us out.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Anyway, how do they almost wipe us out the plague
back in the day of course? Anyway, can someone out me?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Do I get the rat cat trout or can I
just go to buddings and get like traps wraps?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, but get in the rooms.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I'm not getting on a cruise space forget it. You
know you need I'm going to go well or Lady Pats.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's twenty twenty five thirteen fifty five twenty two. I'm
not ringing up pets Control, but we'll go and send
a man around. You know, if I see a chick
out the front, there's no way and the rats won't
take us seriously either. No offense, ladies, are Christian Donald
show go on podcast Saturday night watching TV that says
(04:14):
horrific noise under the floorboards under my foot.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Obviously a rat sounds massive, just so aggressive.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And also you know what it was the confidence leazinness
of this rat, like he didn't care that it was
alerting me that there's a rat coming for me, and
it was obviously trying to chew the wood to get
to you.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
To me specifically, this case coming for me.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Guys, if I'm not here tomorrow, that the rat has
got sorry, Christian, Yeah, Christian. This time of year rats
start to nest so they can start breeding and have
their baby. So you've got to get someone out air
sap otherwise they start doing it in the floorboards.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Christian. And imagine how my more rats you can be
screwed in my house and I even paying.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Wrench so they do have a breeding season. I thought
they'd be like rabbits where they just breed constantly.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I mean, this is why we need to we need
to handle this. We need to we need to deep
ins this S Morning Team. Dave's on the line, Dave,
what can you say?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Rats? Listen?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's like it's like, I know you're a fan. You
don't need to actually do radio like them fumbling around
that you were the State Furry Day.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yes there there. Look, I've had recent problems too with rats,
and I'm led to believe h citrus fruits, garlic and onions.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, vampires.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I tell you what, I'll try anything at the moment,
so do you know if it works? So it's citrus fruits.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, I've seen citrus fruits being demolished by rats, so
I'm not so sure on the citrus fruit from you
yet to see what happens with garlic and onions, but
hopefully that means you don't see. But failing all that,
there's also the sticky mats, which is not very nice
(06:08):
way with You place the sticky mats down and the
rats get stuck to it, and then there's obviously disposing
of them. That's the least humin way I'm tipping. But
I haven't been down this path, So I can't honestly say,
what about a.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Good old dose of rat sack?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Well, if you've got pets the rat sack then could
could be.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Oh and middle children. Yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Point, and children as well. You know, like that's how
rats at actually works. It kills the rats. The rats
going feed on whoever's it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Sounds like Dave's drunk and some of that rat sack
himself actually, Kelly, Good morning, Kelly, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Morning guys.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Hi, Yeah, good to have you. A nice weekend. So
I've got a rats problem. What do I need to do?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Well?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
When we first moved into our house a few years ago,
we had rats in the ceiling and yes, the person
that came out said there is a rat season it's
winter because they try and get somewhere warm. We got
to put baits around, did nothing, and then I can't
remember who told me, some old guy. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Where I was, the mummy Davey we just had on.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
It might have been Dave.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
They they also ate everything in my vegie garden. I
came out one.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Morning and everything was pulled out like a mass, like
a charismatic.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
They hate pepperm and oil.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So we did some backup guys, but there's an awesome
veggie batch. It doesn't matter, do you know what, I'm
trying it, but should That stuff stinks, so doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The rats don't care. They're coming for me.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
No.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
We dip the cotton bolls and pepman oil and threw
them randomly through the manhole and we haven't had rats
in the ceiling since.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I love that. My wife comes s, what the hell
are you doing? I'm getting in the rats? Told me what?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, Katie, this is actually very helpful. And trying the
peppermint oil today. I'll get back to you tomorrow. So
now listen to all this. Probably raising Ice is an expert.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
So morning Jay, Good morning, Christian Morning team.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Here you go.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Oh well you're just a personally just speak to so
you're a pro, you're a pest controller.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
That is correct, good man.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
First of all, there is a rat season, is this right?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Yes, that's correct. So wintertime is the past season or
any of the cold times because it doesn't necessarily involve winter,
could be early autumn, right, yes. So there after the
same things you and I are after, which is a
bit of warmth over the cold months.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Right, okay, and then why would this thing then be
chewing the floorboards? Like, honestly, Jay, it was so noisy
it sounded massive.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Wow, are you sure not a possum?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
No, no, this thing was scurrying around because it started
stamping on the floorboards to let them know there was
a big man inside that floorboarded thing through your next option.
I've been watching Tom Hardy, so I think I was
actually like, it's gonna go mate.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Sorry, what a brave man. Yeah, Tom Hardy up there.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I'll tell you this much. You know, rasts get pretty
big in Melbourne City, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You know.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
I've seen them at the size of small dogs. But
the reason it's probably in the floorboards is because they're
probably making the way into the roof through the wall coveties.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh god, So how do you get rid of them
when you go around? What do you do? Are you
like spraying something you're fumigating?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
No?
Speaker 7 (09:36):
You actually bait for them. The other caller was correct
where they may or may not eat the bait, which
is why it's got to put down several different types
of bait find the right flavor. Essentially, it's like chili congk.
Not every human.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Likes peppermine oil and some chili.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
One way, somebody's going to get you.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Yeah, peppermine oil. It's a very medieval sort of thing that.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
When you get rid of them, they do they come back,
or they gone for a long time.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
They're usually gone for a long time. If you kill
off the family, denish just waiting to the next lot
that actually come through, which is why you've got to
prove where they come.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Take it out the family. Hey, Ram, your family pass it.
On Christian O'Connell Show podcast
I Heeart podcasts.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
You can hear more gold one I four point three podcasts,
playlist and listen live on the free iHeart.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
App Got anything Good? Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell
show podcast. Saturday Night.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm watching TV right and I hear this horrific noise
and I realize it's a rat so close under the foreboard.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I've got my feet on. I felt like it was
actually going to break through and eat me.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
They've got those big the noise and it just sounded massive.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Isn't rat season? Because no, Seriously, I know we.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Have like Shark week on the Scummy Channel, rat season,
favorite season.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Channel seven show Tonight a rat season, Shane.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Last night, I was sitting at his or in his office,
just doing some stuff on the laptop, and the window
blind was upright. It was nighttime, and I could have
sworn that I heard someone tapping on the window, and
I thought, oh, I think there's someone at the window.
This is really scary. So I just called out, hey, Chris,
can you come up here like urgently? And I said,
(01:24):
I think there's someone at the window.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Job in this life, isn't it to be called up
the frontline as cannon. So does that look? Can you
come out there and see what is? Yeah, it might
be an arm gang. I just go out, Yeah, my slippers. Hello,
anyone here but to chop me out? My family make
a coick getaway.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
The dog was outside, he said, well, Presley hasn't even bark.
Trust me, if there was someone in the backyard, he'd
go ballistic. And he goes, it's probably just the rats
because we have like.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Those casual with that noisy, Like.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
This thing was making a hell of a noisy. Screened
out to my wife. She starts screaming, like, I don't
even sleep.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Pet to sleep. That's when they get busy. They're not
getting busy on me.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I thought you both would have a clean house.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I didn't think you know that cruel space you will
have here? Yeah, what do you actually do you do?
We have to go and like get a rat catch well, I.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Said to Chris, I think the time has come that
we need to get someone pros.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
A professional.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
His job is to catch in the room.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
You have pest control.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
People don't like and rats and mice.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
You watch out for termite, but.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You wouldn't hear a termite munch bunching.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
No, No, you wouldn't know, You're not like a rat.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
No, this thing was like, yeah, it was just like
and I'm not. I was watching a very violent show
mob Land at the moment, which is like a gangster thing,
and I felt I never felt more unmanly. I was
watching Tom Hardy beat someone with a knuckle douster. I'm
(03:09):
so scared right now.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
What is it as well? When you hear an animal
like that the hairs, something happens.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
There's an ice feeling you have and it's the hair,
literally hairs.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
In the back of your neck.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Apparently it's an evolutionary thing from the plague. Is why
humans have such a sort of visceral reaction rats, because
we've developed a fear because they, you know, almost wiped
us out.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Anyway, how do they almost wipe us out the plague
back in the day of course? Anyway, can someone out me?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Do I get the rat cat trout or can I
just go to buddings and get like traps wraps?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, but get in the rooms.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I'm not getting on a cruise space forget it. You
know you need I'm going to go well or Lady Pats.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
It's twenty twenty five thirteen fifty five twenty two. I'm
not ringing up pets Control, but we'll go and send
a man around. You know, if I see a chick
out the front, there's no way and the rats won't
take us seriously either. No offense, ladies, are Christian Donald
show go on podcast Saturday night watching TV that says
(04:14):
horrific noise under the floorboards under my foot.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Obviously a rat sounds massive, just so aggressive.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
And also you know what it was the confidence leazinness
of this rat, like he didn't care that it was
alerting me that there's a rat coming for me, and
it was obviously trying to chew the wood to get
to you.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
To me specifically, this case coming for me.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Guys, if I'm not here tomorrow, that the rat has
got sorry, Christian, Yeah, Christian. This time of year rats
start to nest so they can start breeding and have
their baby. So you've got to get someone out air
sap otherwise they start doing it in the floorboards.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Christian. And imagine how my more rats you can be
screwed in my house and I even paying.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Wrench so they do have a breeding season. I thought
they'd be like rabbits where they just breed constantly.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I mean, this is why we need to we need
to handle this. We need to we need to deep
ins this S Morning Team. Dave's on the line, Dave,
what can you say?
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Rats? Listen?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It's like it's like, I know you're a fan. You
don't need to actually do radio like them fumbling around
that you were the State Furry Day.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Yes there there. Look, I've had recent problems too with rats,
and I'm led to believe h citrus fruits, garlic and onions.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, vampires.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
I tell you what, I'll try anything at the moment,
so do you know if it works? So it's citrus fruits.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, I've seen citrus fruits being demolished by rats, so
I'm not so sure on the citrus fruit from you
yet to see what happens with garlic and onions, but
hopefully that means you don't see. But failing all that,
there's also the sticky mats, which is not very nice
(06:08):
way with You place the sticky mats down and the
rats get stuck to it, and then there's obviously disposing
of them. That's the least humin way I'm tipping. But
I haven't been down this path, So I can't honestly say,
what about a.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Good old dose of rat sack?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Well, if you've got pets the rat sack then could
could be.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Oh and middle children. Yeah, that's a good.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Point, and children as well. You know, like that's how
rats at actually works. It kills the rats. The rats
going feed on whoever's it.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Sounds like Dave's drunk and some of that rat sack
himself actually, Kelly, Good morning, Kelly, welcome to the show.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Morning guys.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Hi, Yeah, good to have you. A nice weekend. So
I've got a rats problem. What do I need to do?
Speaker 5 (06:57):
Well?
Speaker 6 (06:58):
When we first moved into our house a few years ago,
we had rats in the ceiling and yes, the person
that came out said there is a rat season it's
winter because they try and get somewhere warm. We got
to put baits around, did nothing, and then I can't
remember who told me, some old guy. I don't even know.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Where I was, the mummy Davey we just had on.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
It might have been Dave.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
They they also ate everything in my vegie garden. I
came out one.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Morning and everything was pulled out like a mass, like
a charismatic.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
They hate pepperm and oil.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
So we did some backup guys, but there's an awesome
veggie batch. It doesn't matter, do you know what, I'm
trying it, but should That stuff stinks, so doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
The rats don't care. They're coming for me.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
No.
Speaker 6 (07:47):
We dip the cotton bolls and pepman oil and threw
them randomly through the manhole and we haven't had rats
in the ceiling since.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I love that. My wife comes s, what the hell
are you doing? I'm getting in the rats? Told me what?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, Katie, this is actually very helpful. And trying the
peppermint oil today. I'll get back to you tomorrow. So
now listen to all this. Probably raising Ice is an expert.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
So morning Jay, Good morning, Christian Morning team.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Here you go.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Oh well you're just a personally just speak to so
you're a pro, you're a pest controller.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
That is correct, good man.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
First of all, there is a rat season, is this right?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Yes, that's correct. So wintertime is the past season or
any of the cold times because it doesn't necessarily involve winter,
could be early autumn, right, yes. So there after the
same things you and I are after, which is a
bit of warmth over the cold months.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Right, okay, and then why would this thing then be
chewing the floorboards? Like, honestly, Jay, it was so noisy
it sounded massive.
Speaker 7 (08:45):
Wow, are you sure not a possum?
Speaker 1 (08:48):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
No, no, this thing was scurrying around because it started
stamping on the floorboards to let them know there was
a big man inside that floorboarded thing through your next option.
I've been watching Tom Hardy, so I think I was
actually like, it's gonna go mate.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Sorry, what a brave man. Yeah, Tom Hardy up there.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I'll tell you this much. You know, rasts get pretty
big in Melbourne City, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
You know.
Speaker 7 (09:16):
I've seen them at the size of small dogs. But
the reason it's probably in the floorboards is because they're
probably making the way into the roof through the wall coveties.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Oh god, So how do you get rid of them
when you go around? What do you do? Are you
like spraying something you're fumigating?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
No?
Speaker 7 (09:36):
You actually bait for them. The other caller was correct
where they may or may not eat the bait, which
is why it's got to put down several different types
of bait find the right flavor. Essentially, it's like chili congk.
Not every human.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Likes peppermine oil and some chili.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
One way, somebody's going to get you.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
Yeah, peppermine oil. It's a very medieval sort of thing that.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
When you get rid of them, they do they come back,
or they gone for a long time.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
They're usually gone for a long time. If you kill
off the family, denish just waiting to the next lot
that actually come through, which is why you've got to
prove where they come.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Take it out the family. Hey, Ram, your family pass it.
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