OMG OMG OMG - just found a dead rat in the engine

[BitTiredNow]

I lifted up the bonnet today to see why the car wouldn't start and found a dead rat....... feel really sick and just needed to say AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH as DH is away and I have no-one else to tell!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

SO glad this isn't me.

Eeeeuw, how hideous. I have never heard of that before. Was it all mangled up?

No, it was bottom up on the top, completely in tact and not stiff yet. Bloody things - I really hope the rat lurgy hasn't got into the heating pipes and we;ve all been breathing in airborne rat diseases....

my neighbour had the wires chewed in her car by a rat.
The rats were coming into her garage to get to some petfood she left there.
Is your car in a garage?

Poor BTN!

Don't worry about airborne diseases. I think they're passed through bodily fluids.

Anyhoooooo .... have you picked it up? Is it out now?

no, it's parked on the drive (the car, not the rat, that's in the bin - where my neighbour threw it and I now and too scared to put anything else in it (I know its dead but ughhh)). I emailed Dh and he said the rats have probably been charging their ipods from the car battery and that's why it's flat - such a comedian.......

He he he!

My little boy found a live mouse yesterday morning, and he was over the moon. It was so damned cute, and tiny, and lovely. We talked about what a wonderful thing life is ..

When we got home, some bastard cat had dumped a dead mouse on our doorstep ... which prompted a discussion on what a curious thing death is.

Rats like warm metal. Don't ask me why, but they do.

How are your boys?

dh is a mechanic and finds rats, pieces of birds and has found 2 cats under bonnets.

Much sympathy. I came down to breakfast earlier in the week and found a dead rat under the table I was SO glad dh hadn't gone to work yet or I dread to think what I'd have done (hidden it under a box probably and gone into denial )

Hi des, they're good, thanks- although ds1 was caught yesterday standing on the baby's chest yesterday....... was it you we had the chat about smoking with? If so, I cannot be a hypocrite, after the shocks of the last 2 weeks, I have sadly crossed to the dark side again after 6 years.....

Daisy, I would have left the house for the day - seriously....

No, it wasn't me, BTN. I'm an unashamed smoker, and have been for years

good girl!!!