[gene]

My heart is still pounding!! We went out side for a potty break......I hear a loud squeak and a commotion, and here comes Jonah with a foot long RAT in his mouth. I scream "DROP IT!!", he gives me the look....I grab his collar and repeat the command. He drops it, Miko grabs it, starts to run. I get her by the collar, repeat drop it, she does, Jonah regrabs......I repeat the command, he drops it. I move it with a stick, keeping the kids at bay. Finally pick it up by the tail with a handy poop bag and then deposit the poor thing in the trash. I think he died of shock, because there didn't seem to be any wounds. Icky yucky gross.....I felt like a little girl. I'm surprised I didn't scream!! Needless to say, I had to move the trash to the inside of the garage. I thought they have been chasing a chipmunk or a mole.....I had no idea it was a rat that was living in or around my garage.....which, thank the Lord , is NOT attached to my house!! :wink:
This is the kind of rat....ours was browner (and more dead!)

 

[gene]

I'll probably be awake from my own nightmare!! :shock:

 

[sdrudge]

Poor gene you did better then I would have. I would have but a bowl over it and a big heavy book and let my DH get it when he gets home. LOL :shock:

 

[gene]

I had no choice....it's only me. Although, the doods wanted to help..... :roll:

 

[annieG]

OMG....I can't imagine :shock: :shock: :shock: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

 

[ellabee]

Oh gene gene gene gene I am seriously skeeving right now. Major willies. Like, rubbing down the goosebumps skeeving.

 

[annabelles mom]

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Gene you are gonna get a lot of phones calls tonite when we all wake up with nightmares

Hopefully the kids (and you ) are all ok from the experience, I would have totally freaked, I'm sure All my neighbors would have heard me.

If the kids do not have access to the garage, you might want to get some rat traps to make sure you don't have more hanging around

 

[ChasP505]

I can assure you, the rodent didn't die of shock. A wild rat will put up a savage fight against a dog. I'll bet he was poisoned and died from internal hemorrhaging in your yard. Or worse yet, he was diseased.

Back in the dark ages when I lived in NY, my property was adjacent to a small produce farm. When bulldozers moved in to start preparing the land for a luxury condo development, the resident rats fled in every direction. I had "Hav-A-Heart" traps everywhere but my heart is cold when it comes to rats. Wearing industrial elbow length rubber gloves, I dispatched these nasty rodents as humanely as possible.

You should bathe your dogs and spray them and your property for fleas immediately and consult a pest control company that specializes in rodents. If your pups found one rat, there's got to be a nest nearby.

 

[Dextersmommy]

Eeeeeekkk! I thought it was bad yesterday when Dex had a mouse! I yelled "drop!" and he did. I had the broom in my hand from cleaning up kitty litter. So I whacked it and tossed it in the garbage bag with the litter (that would kill an elephant :shock: ). Dex's eyes got as big as half dollars and he looked at me as if to say "what the heck did he do wrong?" :lol: :lol:

 

[KingstonTodd]

the family's barn cats would bring down large rats and mice and birds and rabbits pretty regularily. They were almost lions instead of cats. Thankfull the doodles havent caught any yet, but i wish they would scare them away at least......

If you are not used to it, that must have been a very adrenaline filled scene, you probably could see you heart beating in you chest. And the dogs probably thought it was great fun.

 

[my Boo]

I hear a loud squeak and a commotion, and here comes Jonah with a foot long RAT in his mouth. I scream "DROP IT!!", he gives me the look....

Daddies ruin all the fun, don't they Jonah? :wink:

Boo

 

[MaxandMe]

GENE your doodles were playing RAT RACE and you ruined all the fun! :shock:

 

[lisarundell]

Gene, reminds me of Lani's severed bird leg story! Gave me the hebie gibies
(not sure how to spell that). Then I laughed at the visual running through my head! :lol:

 

[Guest]

aaaaack, Gene, if this was April 1st I would think you made that up! EEEEECK!!!!
And Vasessa, I have seen NYC subway rats, not a pretty sight AND they have NO FEAR. They look at you like, "Yo, quit staring, where's my food?"

Here is a really ICK story:

We had a rat living in our attic when I was a teen. No one KNEW what it was, but we could hear it at night scampering and scritching on our ceiling. One night I woke up and it was sitting, YES, SITTING on my chest. I screamed, it flew into the closet and was never seen or heard from again. I tore that closet apart and my room. I found droppings, so I know I was not crazy. NO ONE believed me, but I swear to you, it happened. I saw the tail and the size and the color and it could only have been a rat. I slept with the light on for YEARS after that.

 

[DebBrown]

Oh geeeeez... I was hoping this was a cute thread about a wet doodle who looked like a rat or something!

I'm betting it was already dead because it would have been tough to catch otherwise. I'd also be worried that it was poisoned. You definitely want to make sure the doodles stay away from these vermin.

Deb

 

[L's Mom]

Oh Man! That was hilarious to read, and I am sure horrific to experience! Lucas will occasionally find a mouse, that my cats will kill and leave in the backyard, he will proudly carry it around... so gross... all you can see is a little tail coming out of his mouth... EWWWWW.... But a foot long RAT!!! That is just awful! Just Awful!

 

[gene]

I can assure you, the rodent didn't die of shock. A wild rat will put up a savage fight against a dog. I'll bet he was poisoned and died from internal hemorrhaging in your yard. Or worse yet, he was diseased.

Jonah Jaws must have killed it then, I heard him squeal, and he was still convulsing when I pitched him in the trash.
(Sorry ladies if I cause the nightmares again! )

I did open the garage door very slowly this morning and checked to see if the garbage bag was still intact. I'll feel much better when the trash goes to the curb tomorrow night.... :wink:

 

[gene]

I'm betting it was already dead because it would have been tough to catch otherwise.

Deb

Don't underestimate the speed of a doodle! Last spring Miko caught a Robin in the yard. After a 5 minute chase around the yard, I got her to drop it. It was that Robin's semi-lucky day....he survived! :wink:

 

[gene]

I'm listening to music from the 70's and guess what's on.......BEN by MJ!! Here's proof! Don't mind the dust on the TV.

 

[ellabee]

Hopefully a coincidence, and not a preview of tonight's activities :shock: