I used to think an occasional escaped rat on the loose from the rodent room was little more than a nuisance, easily managed by the judicious use of havahart traps. Yesterday, after my laundry room FLOODED because one of the little
varmints got inside the washer and chewed the hoses up, I learned that they can be COSTLY nuisances!
I sent my husband to work this morning in the same undershirt he wore yesterday and now I have to either wait a week for the repair company to come out and see if they can fix the washer, go buy a new one, or try and figure out how to fix the
thing myself. This on top of my laptop kicking the bucket yesterday too (it died of old age, but still). I HATE rats!!
I'm not a violent person, but...I was not sorry that the snake that got the culprit made it suffer.