A Chat About Rats

Moyra HAD an unwanted pet, a rat. This is her story!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So we've had a nightly visitor at our house who
likes to it's a very very long tail, is quite large,
and likes the kitchen a great deal. Now, so how
we figured out that we had a ratch friend. Let's
just say that was I must have. I think I
went out in the middle of the night. I went
and got a glass of water and something fell out

(00:21):
of the fridge and I was like, I'm dealing with
that tomorrow. Woke up the next morning and it was
a zucchini Nope, and it had been chewed like corn.
The rat had literally chewed and it was just it
was big chunks. It wasn't like little dainty bites. It
was like, Helen, not a fan of rats. I don't

(00:44):
think anybody is. Is anyone a fan of rats? My
brother had pet rats?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well there was one person then just.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
The one anyway, so Paul went and bought a super
duper no, it was a hammer zucchini. It was like
a torture chamber for rats.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
It literally that's a game. I think it's.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Almost the size of like a five. This this thing
was huge, right, And so this morning we came out
and let's just say it worked. Okay, So he was, yeah,
he was. He was having a lovely rest. And then
Paul said to me, come and have a look at this.
And I went, oh, oh, jeez, that's and he goes,

(01:28):
that's not the same rat, and I went, what do
you what do you mean? And he goes, there there
must be another one, because I've seen another one that's
bigger than that. I was like, that's like an elephant
of the rat world. But now then he said to me,
can you please take it out? And I went all right,
and he goes, yeah, Now he feels guilty because even

(01:49):
though it's a rat, it's still an animal, and they've
got cute little faces. Even well, it wasn't that cute,
to be honest, because it was kind of scratched. But
we've had, like over the years, we've had fights with
rats that have last It actually became quite personal between

(02:10):
us and this rat where we lived in Runaway Bay,
and he would jump at us. He would like like
like almost like there's no care in the world, jump
at us, and then we sent him on his way.
That's good outside.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
That's your exits are here here and over there.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
And over here, and that's a baseball bat. Anyway, We
want to know how did you get that rat? Rat? Rat?
That was the whole idea Serena Russo, remember Serena Russo. Rat?

(02:53):
Who is she? She did a job advertisement in the
nineties or was the eighties? And what does she do?
How to get that job? And this is how to
get that rat. We're just making a jaunty tune out
of the killing things. Yeah, rat, we wouldn't know how
to get that rat? Came from per mark. How did

(03:17):
you get that rat?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Well? The rat seems to like to go into our
shed and die. I don't know why, but we have
found two dead rats.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
In our ship.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
The first one, we didn't know what it was until
it got really smelly and the hand back found it.
The hand and when we sucked out something that I'm like,
that's got fair and magat.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
The second time we didn't wait so long when we
first smelled the smell.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Yeah, okay, so hand back the next one, yep, I
like Mora's version Daniel from a rundo.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
How did you get that rat? Rat?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
How'd you get the rat?

Speaker 4 (04:17):
It was aff between my dad, my dad's dog, and me.
They were rounding it up. I was at the doorway
making sure it didn't get out. It came running towards
me and it climbed on my front so I kicked
it and the dog caught it, and it was the
most horrific center I had ever heard.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh the dog gated.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Thank you, Thank you, Danny l.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Good catch from the dog.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Though, Katie from Clear Island Waters, How did you get
that rat.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
From perfume?

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, i'd like sprayer person came around like on my jacket.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
And then when I got home, Yeah, I found it
on my jacket.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Were wearing it?

Speaker 1 (05:06):
What kind of perfume was it?

Speaker 4 (05:09):
It was a deal perfume, soorry be careful ladies.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
When did you research these or was it just the
way it was?

Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's just just how I found it, just how I
found it.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Was it a high class right?

Speaker 1 (05:25):
Did it? Was it lying down or was it still
like smelling your jacket? My gosh, it was.

Speaker 4 (05:32):
It was on my jacket. And then when I went
to pick up my jacket off the floor and ran out.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Oh yeah, but that's.

Speaker 4 (05:40):
All I could think of because there's there was no
food in my room and that was the newest thing
that I've done, so and there was that little little
bite mask on like the neck around my jacket.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Oh wow, what was the deal? Like, what was the
name of it?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
It was like, see you, I'm going to start making traps.
Is this something

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Or a big tram for the driver on on day
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