Today I am at the end of my tether honest well and truly let me explain why.

I am tired of infestations.

So a couple of months ago we had a mouse infestation in the kitchen, I can deal with mice but the kitchen absolutely not its the worse place to probably get them because they can squeeze through the smallest of gaps and cause havoc.

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Much glue trapping, disinfesting and buying tons of tupperware later, the problem resolved and all was well again. I should have got a cat, but having three dogs to get used to it did not sound appealing in the slightest.
Out of all the infestations I would have to say the mice one was probably the most annoying, and the dirtiest infestation ever. I felt bad catching them as they are super small but, extremely problematic as they can chew through most things.

Then we had a RAT.

I knew straight away after the mice infestation we had a Rat. Something I quickly learned is that they are extremely, extremely intelligent creatures. Glue Traps will not get rats so don't be fooled into thinking it will work it wont.
We got a spring door cage trap, now I realised that it loved dog biscuits and it was helping itself to the supply, imagine my horror when I found it was storing them in the kitchen drawer. (Cheeky Bastard RAT)

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I baited the trap with biscuits and the thing got the biscuits and managed not to set the trap off, after a few days I knew it was only one. People kept telling me it would be more than one but it wasn't, so about a week went by and still no luck.
One day I was in the kitchen and I noticed a shopping bag on the floor, not paying too much attention made a coffee, omg the bag moved and I moved faster, right out of there. When really I should have reached for the first heavy object and hit the thing to kill it, never mind.

I set to work with poison.

@ravijojla took me to a vet pharmacy who gave me some poison to lay for the rat, which smelled like chocolate and you lay it so its well out the way of the dogs. Within hours of laying the poison it had took the bait, well by this time it could have been more than one, I will explain in a second about that.

It said the poison takes 3-5 days to work so I was patient, and it someone ended up that the rat came in the living room and met it's ultimate death when the dogs shook it violently and it was promptly drowned in water. And left over night in the bucket just to make sure.

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Or so I thought, the last few days the temperature has been dropping and we have still had the occasional fly in the house, which is not odd as some days the temps are in the teens which bring them out.
Suddenly I am inundated with Cluster Flies which are everywhere in the house, particularly the windows and its driving me nuts.

What are cluster flies?

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They are a larger size house fly than your standard summer one, in Fall they emerge from the ground and go inside to find warmth, because it is too cold outside. These are extremely docile I mean they don't even try to flinch when you beat them with a swatter.
I am so done with infestations this year, enough is enough that I am now sitting permanently armed with a swatter looking at the windows to see if there are any more, I mean this is crazy its full on snow outside and here I am still swatting flies. Do they not realise it's winter they should be dead or dormant.

Instead they're all coming to live in my house, enough already.

Ok rant is over back to swatting again.

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