10:30 p.m. A relative of
Alice the rat has been caught in the sticky trap I put in the
flybridge after seeing droppings earlier in the day.
10:45 p.m. - couldn't take the noise of
rat jumping around trying to release itself from sticky trap and
fearing it would escape I hit it over the head with the deck broom.
11:15 p.m. - checked rat was still
dead, went to bed. Someone else can dispose of the body, the someone
who was too busy to deal with it when it was jumping around.
Score: Rats 0; Chris 1; Sophia 6; Gerry 0
Before you moan, "how could you just bash the poor thing" bear in mind these trespassers have not been eating any of our food, they are no doubt munching on the boat's insulation, wiring, cabling, rubber, walls, hoses, etc. They can do thousands of dollars of damage to a boat that you might not even find until you're out at sea, wondering why some vital component is no longer functioning.
On the other side of the coin, it's a good thing rats aren't intelligent enough to organize themselves and hire a lawyer (there's a joke in there somewhere) and sue us for causing trillions of damage to Mother Earth. They'd have a good argument over who should be bashed over the head.
Before you moan, "how could you just bash the poor thing" bear in mind these trespassers have not been eating any of our food, they are no doubt munching on the boat's insulation, wiring, cabling, rubber, walls, hoses, etc. They can do thousands of dollars of damage to a boat that you might not even find until you're out at sea, wondering why some vital component is no longer functioning.
On the other side of the coin, it's a good thing rats aren't intelligent enough to organize themselves and hire a lawyer (there's a joke in there somewhere) and sue us for causing trillions of damage to Mother Earth. They'd have a good argument over who should be bashed over the head.
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