Grumpy Old Man
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Rats. Clearing stuff in the barn and one of the little bastards ran at me.
Hate the fuckers.
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@Victor-Meldrew we had some living in our ceiling over winter.
I put our security cam up there and caught them eating the poison...
Havent see any new activity up there, hopefully they are gone, be too hot at moment I expect anyway.
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We had that a few years back too. Our then cat - lethal little bastard - sorted them out one evening.
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@Victor-Meldrew yeah not sure I want to put my cats into the roof with Pink Batts...which surely cant be good for rats living in them either?
I set traps and baits, found 2 dead ones up there and other dead ones on our section, and no longer finding droppings in my shed either.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
We had that a few years back too. Our then cat - lethal little bastard - sorted them out one evening.
We barely have to feed our cat:
Not actually him (but identical). Rats, mice, and rabbits are too scared to come anywhere near our place with him around. So he goes and finds them and kindly brings them in to show off. Known as Mark Dennis (as in Dark Menace).
Rats are sorted -now I could start on fucking wasps...
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not really a grumpy old man thing, more a worry thing...
Driving about you see kids waiting for buses head bent over staring at thier phones with earbuds in thier ears listening to music (usually too loud if my kids are anything to go by)
We are gonna have a generational issue at some point with neck issues, hearing and sight issues at younger ages.
Constantly telling my kids ot have a break, hold the iPad/Phone up higher so thier head is up, turn the music down, have a break (this bit is grumpy old man stuff)
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@Snowy I got my replacement for dogmeat during 2015 RWC. Richie McClaw (black and white) known as Mac. He's a useless fat (9kg) bastard but he has kept the rats pretty much at bay. Fucker likes to eat them in the bedroom while I'm asleep [crunch - crunch]
I had a massive wasp nest get into my bedroom wall cavity a couple of years back. Exterminators were going to rip the (heart kauri) weatherboards off. I sealed the walls and roof lining up and starved them to death. Noise was very impressive. Little bastards weren't happy. They started crawling out through air-con - so I sealed that up as well. Got them in the end. I'm allergic so was quite a priority.
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Current cats are good hunters but our previous cat - a ginger queen - was something else. Squirrels, pigeons, stray dogs...
The stray Tom we were warned to keep her away from when we moved in, lasted exactly 3 nights before he decided discretion was better than a ripped nose
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fucker likes to eat them in the bedroom while I'm asleep [crunch - crunch]
One of ours likes bats.....
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@Victor-Meldrew COVID
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@dogmeat bloody wasps!
We've been lucky with them, I see the odd little paperwasp nest and I destroy it.
Have had a couple of bigger ones when I lived in town, got stung several times, but I won in the end!
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@dogmeat Almost identical stories. Cat does the same. The sound of a cat crunching on rats ain't cool. Amazing how surgical he is, eats the whole thing except a small little pile of entrails of some description. I haven't bothered to analyse what he doesn't eat.
Same story with the wasps - had a massive german wasp nest in the ceiling of the bach. Looked like something alien:
I was actually really lucky that the wife heard them in the morning (quite loud) as I was going up into the ceiling to install insulation that day and the access is difficult. Being in a confined space with thousands of those aggresive bastards still creeps me out. Would probably have been fatal. I could have doid some might say.
Neighbour set the hillside on fire a while back dealing to an in ground wasp nest. The panic was actually pretty funny.
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@taniwharugby I reroofed my place 20 years ago. Got two shocks when I lifted the iron. Most worryingly there was a gap of about 600 mm in the middle of the main apex roof beam with a pile of charcoal on the ceiling in between two charred stump ends.
Impressively there was also a 4 sq metre paper wasp nest (abandoned) Bastards had built it right to the roof to the extent that the top of it had the contours of the corrugated iron.
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
I see the odd little paperwasp nest and I destroy it.
Gotta do that in the evening apparently when they are actually in there, otherwise they just start again. Pricks.
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@Snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
eats the whole thing except a small little pile of entrails of some description. I haven't bothered to analyse what he doesn't eat.
Think its liver and intestine ....
I'm always surprised fat Mac can a) move fast enough to catch anything and b) can get them through the cat flap. I already had a cat flap when he joined the household but he destroyed it. Had to replace it with one for a small dog.
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@Snowy said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
We had that a few years back too. Our then cat - lethal little bastard - sorted them out one evening.
We barely have to feed our cat:
Not actually him (but identical). Rats, mice, and rabbits are too scared to come anywhere near our place with him around. So he goes and finds them and kindly brings them in to show off. Known as Mark Dennis (as in Dark Menace).
Rats are sorted -now I could start on fucking wasps...
That's got me started on cats, or more specifically my cat or more specifically the cat I got as a package deal when my girlfriend moved in. Now I'm generally a cat person. Like them much more than dogs. But this ginger cünt is driving me insane.
I don't know whether he has abandonment issues or is just the cat version of a goldfish. But every morning at 4am without fail, the ginga prick comes in through his cat flap and starts meowing like a mad man. Why? He has food and we're of course where we always are, i.e. farking sleeping. But he does it every single bloody day. Wakes the dead then jumps on our bed and goes to sleep.
And the cat flap. The stupid båstard looks like he's about to pass through a portal to another dimension. He's been through it hundreds of times, yet he still looks like a terrified version of Kurt Russell in Stargate. And despite being able to come and go at will, most of the time he still meows at the door to be let in. Which I don't.
Stupid ginger cünt.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel Yep. Mark Dennis does the "wake you up at 4am" thing. Usually announcing that he has caught something and is going to munch on it before lying on top of me for a nap and leave some gross innards on the floor next to the bed for me to stand on when I get up in the morning with bare feet.
We had a ginger guy that we had for 18 years (was in Hong Kong with us, then NZ). Was the most obnoxious grumpy animal I have ever met. Just attitude plus. Loved the bugger.
