Agouti / Coypu Became Victim on 7 October 2007

Huh? What is that? I recently discovered those words are in the family of rodent.

Recently I asked a question in Facebook re. ‘What would you do if you saw a mouse/rat enter your bedroom through the space beneath the door in the middle of the night while everyone else is sleeping and hide behind your wardrobe without coming out?’

That is precisely what happened to me as I was about to go to dreamland early morning of Sunday 30th September 2007.

I knew that the thing has been roaming around the house for some time but I would never have thought it would give me a surprise visit! I made all kind of sounds imaginable but it was adamant to just stay behind my wardrobe for over an hour. This was even after I quickly rushed downstairs and pulled out from the power point a supposedly rodent proof ‘insect and rats expeller’ and attached it into one of the power points in my bedroom.

The way this expeller works is through sound. Humans and other creatures are unable to hear the sound except the insect and rats. After having the expeller for a few days, mum mentioned that she still sees the rat lurking around. Out came this statement from my sis-in-law’s mouth, ‘Maybe the rat is wearing earphone!’. I didn’t know I should laugh or cry upon hearing that.

In order not to repeat the incident of early morning of 30th September 2007, I make sure every night before I go to bed, the two holes in my bathroom is blocked so that the thing is unable to get in through the holes. Besides that, I also covered the space beneath the bedroom and bathroom doors with things.

Mum consulted a contractor from our neighbourhood (who did the extension to our downstairs for grannie’s room last year ). According to mum, Mr. Michael Chan is the ‘king of rodent catchers’ cos he managed to help people caught over a hundred rodents so far using his trap. He said at the most by the third night of using the trap, the rodent would become victim.

We put the trap in the lounge room with ‘lap cheong’ as the bait on last Saturday night, 6th October 2007.

When I woke up on Sunday morning, the trap was no longer there. I went to the backyard and found the thing caught inside the trap. Hallelujah! Someone had submerged it along with the trap into a bucket of water and let it died a slow death.

I’m not sure whether there are other rodents still lurking around, so the trap is still out there in the lounge room and to take precaution, I am still covering the two holes and the space beneath my doors.