Can’t sleep because have just discovered a rat in my kitchen!!!!

[Aintnothingbutaheartache]

Sorry if I’ve put this on the wrong thread but I’m beyond distraught!
Just going into kitchen to get a glass of water to go to bed and find a fucking rat eating the cat food!!!
Have finally found a company to come round and get rid of it , they’ll be here by 2am apparently.
I’m knackered but cannot sleep knowing it’s in the house!
DH asleep, he gets up at 5.45 for work so didn’t want to wake him.
Can’t even get to the fridge for wine cos of the little shit!
Anyone awake to give me some comfort?

Argh! A mouse or a rat?!

Hi nono definitely a rat it’s HUGE!

My elderly cat is out having a wee and I’m scared to let her in.
When she was younger she’d have sorted it but she’s so old now I’m scared she’d get hurt

Oh god, I remember when this happened to us. I was horrified. Luckily we managed to trap it in one room while we waited for a company to come out and get rid of it. I was nervous for months in case there were anymore but thankfully there weren't. Sending

Thanks GraceFace the lovely Craig has just sent me a text saying he’s going to be here at about 1.50 am.
It’s costing me £280 !!😳
But after ringing round the whole of London I was prepared to sell a kidney to get rid of the hairy fuck!
Thing is.........there has to be more!!

I honestly thought the same but there really was only one (thank fuck). It's not cheap is it? But totally worth it to get rid quickly.

Would it have come through the cat flap? Brazen bastard

Oh bless you. Not much longer now. 🐁

You poor sod, OP.

How is that not cheap?

He's coming at this ungodly hour to catch a rat, what'd you expect?!

Oh God op what a fucking nightmare.

Oh god the stuff of nightmares. Poor you. I would literally have to move. Truly. Have done it once when the other sort ran behind me in the toilet in the middle of the night. 7 months pregnant and took a taxi to my mother's house. And stayed.

Thank God for Craig. Cheap at the price prince among men.

Wow 😮 is of completely freaked!! How did it get in?

What are you gonna do?

(Sorry couldn't resist).

I was sitting in a trendy hackney craft beer pub about 15 years ago when I saw a rat do a backflip by the kitchen door. I was less keen to eat there afterwards...

My screaming would have woken DH if it was me! Well done on being so composed!

Hello y’all!
Thank you so much for your responses.
Well, the very lovely Craig pitches up.
Rat is cowering behind wine rack Craig exclaims “bugger me that’s a biggun “
He puts down a load of ‘sticky boxes’ which the rat practically pirouettes over and disappears under the dishwasher.
The gap is no more than a gnats chuff wide!
Anyway, he has a good look , sets traps etc and says he’ll be back Thursday, but if I hear screaming (😳) in the meantime give him a ring cos the furry fuck is probably stuck to one of his sticky boxes.
I’m weakened!

Oh and as regards the £280, it turned out to be £645, well spent!

Jeez. £645? Hope that furry fucker (s?) goes soon.

Hang on, so he's not got it?

And he's put the price up to £645? Why????

Oh no!
He identified the hole it’s coming in from, he’s promised me he’s going to catch the one we had (traps and sticky boxes) and he’s coming back to remove the corpse 😬 and block off the hole.
I know it seems a lot but really I’m delighted.
He explained every part of the bill and all seems right.

I hope you haven't paid the full bill yet.

£645 and he hasn’t caught it?!

I had a rat once, my cat brought it in and it hid in my kitchen. I closed the kitchen door - the one that accessed my hall - so it didn't go all over the house. I left the back door open. It went over to my cat's food, ate some and then went out the back door to where it came from! I didn't want to kill it so that was a result for me.

When your DH hears about that bill, he may wish you'd woken him up!