OK, i haven't mentioned about the new device which we installed last
November.
I wanna wait and see if this device works as intended.... now that it
has been almost half a year, i think i can comment on the effectiveness now.
My home is infested with rats.
It has always been a problem because our house is surrounded by bushes
and there is an abandoned house behind us where the rats hide. Of coz, the fact that there
is plenty of food in my mum's kitchen too... it's like the rats can come
for buffet anytime @.@
Recently, it becomes a serious problem when the rats multiply and
create a colony within our house.
Many times, we see them breezily walked past. Sometimes we catch them
eating an unopened packet of food in the kitchen... Something absurd
happened one night. I was sitting in my room engaging myself in the IT
world, then i saw in the corner of my eyes that "something" was moving
into my room from outside. I looked and gosh, it was a rat!
The rats are daring. They aren't afraid of anyone or anything.
We caught the rats using the cage a few times. And some died from the
rat poison. But the problem did not get better.
One time, to prevent the rats from getting to precious food which i brought back
from overseas, I kept them in hard casing luggage thinking it would be
safe until one fine day, i found out that, the luggage that looked
'untouched' had actually been bitten through by the rats! just to reach
the packets of dried organic noodles inside!
Look what they have done to my trusted friend!!
Arrrgghhhh
OMG, they are insane!! They are dangerous! They are out of control!
I bought a device which was said to produce ear-piercing sound
that irritates rats and had them turned
on 24 hours a day for about 2 years. As you can see, they don't work at all. Crap, money down the drain...
So after many many rounds of negotiations with my parents, one day, i came home to find
a new device.
It's a ...
Blue-eyed kitten!
Ok, don't be fooled by his cuteness
He was angry when my mum first brought him in. nobody could touch him.
Even feeding him food offended him haha...
Then after a few days of us trying to make friends with him, he
relented.
We kept him inside the house. The next day, we found a dead rat in the
living room. Then we found dead little snakes, cockroaches, lizards... my parents
were proud of him. But we also found torn toilet paper, broken vase and that he actually
naps on my cleaned clothes!!!
oh well, i guess nothing is perfect. This device functions but at the
same time, we need to pay the price to keep him entertained.
As our cat grows bigger, he starts to treat home as a hotel. He disappears and only comes home
during meal times when he will meow non-stop. After meal, he disappears
again. He doesn't hunt for anything anymore and my parents start to
complain that he is a useless cat.
haha, oh well, he deserves to be scolded. Just look at him... we find
him sleeping most of the time or just lying around doing nothing haha...
Just look at all his different poses!
The cat is now my responsibility even technically, it's my mum who
brought him home. As i said before, i'm a responsible person. Since the
cat is now one of the family members, I have to make sure he becomes a
better cat. So lately, i nag at him that he better starts catching some
rats to prove to my parents that he is not some 'qi liao bi' (wasting
food) member.
Last weekend, i found some dead lizards on the floor. OK, no rats yet
but at least he did SOMETHING. Yesterday, when i was eating at the
dinner table, i saw something moving rapidly at the door. I looked
closely and oh my gosh, my cat had a big black bird in his mouth. It
was still alive and struggling!!
The cat with the bird bigger than him came inside the house and tried
to go upstairs. I screamed at the cat and the next thing i saw, the
bird escaped from his mouth and ran frantically to kitchen and then out
the window and my cat was chasing after it, jumping from the floor to
the counter top and then out the window.. it looks just like the scene
in Jacky Chan's movie.
It was crazy! When my cat returned from the bush, I caught him and
said, PLEASE CATCH RATS, not birds. Zzzzz...
Haiiii.... the rats are still partying loudly at the ceiling. I wonder
when my cat will terminate them all.
