Henry and Ron had been showing particular interest in the shelves in the kitchen for a couple of days.  We put this down to an unfortunate frog/toad-related incident on Tuesday night which I haven’t had time to tell you about yet.

However, on Friday night, as I sat watching mindless television while stuffed up with flu, I swore I heard Pete say “there’s a rat in the kitchen”.  Obviously, I was hallucinating.  But no .. he did say it.  And when I went to look, I could see its bright beady eyes and little black nose where it was perched behind the spice rack on the worktop.  This is marginally better than Pete’s first encounter with it a couple of minutes earlier, which was when he lifted up the big soup mug from the draining board and found the rat (admittedly smallish, but still – a rat ..) underneath it!  The rat scuttled off and took refuge behind the spice rack.

We weren’t sure what to do – it wasn’t very big, but they can bite, and we couldn’t have got hold of it anyway without dismantling things, by which time it would be off.  By the time we’d discussed it, the rat had taken steps to relocate itself behind the washing machine.

All five cats seem totally disinterested – even Lilith, who is a prodigious ratter.  This morning, two days later, I can hear the bloody creature scuttling about under the kitchen cupboards, which is quite creepy.  Not quite sure what to do next …

One Response to “There's a rat in me kitchen ..”

  1. Humane trap – relocate – release.

    If rat returns, consider adopting same 🙂

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