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Bastards...

Glad that I'm not in my new house until next week... Should I tell the apartment complexe or not (LOL) 40 yes fourty rats chewed there way out of a rubbermaid tub last night and I'm currently rounding them up in the spare bedroom... LOTSA FUN....

Note to everyone, make sure that your holes are high enough they the little buggers cannot reach them.

Him, his 6 ft girl freind, 42 ball pythons, and the most hungy Black Throat Monitor you've ever seen... Entire complexe should be free of all rodents within hours....

That would be pretty irresponsible on your part.. for one thing, unless you are in the verryrrrry deep south they would die over the winter. Another thing, people hate snakes, your snakes would likely be dead in the first week if spotted by other residents. Lastly, I doubt there are enough rodents in your complex to support them long term. If you're seriously thinking of letting them go email me at verrykerry@yahoo.com and I'll pay the shipping to send them here and give them a good home. I'm serious, I'll pay shipping if you don't want them...

Kerry in Dallas TX

Him, his 6 ft girl freind, 42 ball pythons, and the most hungy Black Throat Monitor you've ever seen... Entire complexe should be free of all rodents within hours....
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verrykerry@yahoo.com
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."Calvin and Hobbes

I think he meant to let loose within the room/house to take care of the rodents that were loose, if its actual out in the wild let go, then ppl get mad at me for expressing my feeling of those who post silly ridiculous topics like this, I think not. If you do want to let them free as in out in the world, please go to Iraq to become a POW and see how fun it must be to survive in a different world. So which do you mean>?
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My roomates are2 boas, 4 corns,Rotti,3cats and snake food AKA the food chain.

in the room to take care of the rats of which I've now captured all but 1.

Did you not see the pic of the albino ball, thats a $2500 snake... A good portion of my animals, including the boa pictured are rescuses....

Here he is....

I mean here he is....

High is not good enough. I had to stop using rubbermaids and switch to cement mixing tubs.
DeMak

I'm not going threw that ordeal again....

>>High is not good enough. I had to stop using rubbermaids and switch to cement mixing tubs.
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I found that I just top the tups with wire totally and they don't chew out. I rarely have chewers. I think I am just lucky though. I did have one tub start chewing when I gave them a solid box hide and they used it as a ladder to reach the roof struts and destroy it. Thankfully my rats always stay close to home and most of the moms come when I call......handy when they chewed out once.
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Sonya

Haven't we warned you about tampering with the structure of a chaotic system?
Mrs. Neutron

Wow, quite the chew job there. None of my rats have managed to chew out of a large roughneck rubbermaid container I used for my rats (when I had some). I used duct tape to fix the mesh over the holes in the lid but duct tape peals off after awhile but my rats didn't do much chewing around the rim though. My female was starting to jump and try and grab onto the mesh (why I have no clue) She would stand on the floor of the cage and jump straight up and grab onto the mesh but then drop down as she didn't get a good enough grip on the mesh. Good thing it was 1/4" instead of 1/2", else she probably be hanging off the wire.

My mice on the other hand, I never had covers on their cages, till I got the olympic jumpers. Never thought a mouse could jump 13" straight up to grab the lip of a sterlite container before. Seen them jump in the corners before but since they never made it more than 2/3rds of the way up, didn't think nothing about it. Then I came up the stairs ot see one of my young mice looking back at me from the step. Same little bugger that I had seen trying to jump up. Caught him later, after I put him back in the cage, doing the same thing...and of course, all the other mice in the cage were watching him. Sigh. Lids for all the mouse cages now.
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