We had them in our building in the basement. The poor owners on the first floor could hear them in their bedroom ceiling.
My neighbor called Orkin. They put the building on a 12 month contract for, iirc, $150 bucks a month.
One week went buy. Two weeks went by. Three weeks went buy. Still have rats. The poor woman in the basement is ready to move in to a hotel.
I call Orkin to have them send out the manager to see wtf is going on. We open all the bait boxes to see if anything has been eaten. Nope. Not a nibble on the big chunks of blue poison. I ask why he doesn't use the blue pellets. He says they don't like them.
He says give it a couple weeks and we'll check back. Then he leaves.
Fuck that. I go to the local hardware store and grab a couple boxes of poison. We have dogs in the building so I place them under the downstairs units' hot tub decks so there is no chance a dog can get them.
Rest in piece, Rat!
A couple, years later I remodeled the basement bath in that unit. I recognize the box that poor rat is clutching. I know it's gross. But better one or two rats shrivel up than have a colony take up residence:
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