A couple of days back, my housemate woke up and found a dead rat in the kitchen and the two dogs happily standing beside their kill, waiting to be praised. Well, they did get their rewards as he was very pleased with their performance. Good thing he cleaned up after that.

 

After that incident, they seem to develop an extra sharp sense for rats (or have they been around all these while?). From yesterday, they have been trying to sniff something out from the fridge and the drain. While the maid was cleaning today, she said she heard noises coming from the fridge, so I supposed, the dogs must be right. Now the problem is, how do I lure the rat out? It’s not stupid, it knows that the dogs are waiting to pounce on it. I just don’t want it to starve and die inside, neither do I want to clear the dead body if they catch it. I think I’ll fence out the boys tomorrow for a couple of hours and hope that the rat will make it’s escape and never to return again, preferably go tell his/her friends that our place has no food and is freaking dangerous with two mean looking guards.