{"id":1268,"date":"2010-07-01T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tom-nan.com\/2010\/07\/rats-literally\/"},"modified":"2010-07-01T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T10:30:00","slug":"rats-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/01\/rats-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats\u2026 Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>W<\/strong>ell we haven\u2019t been able to completely lick the rat problem here at Casa De Cardinal.\u00a0 Just when we think we\u2019ve got \u2018em all we hear them in the attic again.<br \/>About 6 months ago I put wire mesh in the attic vent to keep \u2018em out and they still come. I\u2019ve since found where they\u2019re coming in\u2026\u00a0 The AC refrigerant line into the house.\u00a0 So I bought a new Victor electronic rat trap. Thing works great\u2026 no mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/trap.jpeg?w=400\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4081\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got it at the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/h_d1\/N-5yc1vZ1xg3\/R-100400789\/h_d2\/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&amp;storeId=10051&amp;catalogId=10053\" target=\"_blank\">Home Depot<\/a>. Not bad for the price.\u00a0 Just make sure you empty it out ASAP after each kill, rotten rats destroy the trap.<br \/>We put a camera on the trap so we know when it has a guest.\u00a0 I\u2019ve decided to put the most recent picture from the camera where I can get to it from anywhere with my phone.\u00a0 It\u2019s available from anywhere at <a href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/ratcam\/ratcam.html\">https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/ratcam\/ratcam.html<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019ll leave it up and maybe update this space as new things happen with this project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well we haven\u2019t been able to completely lick the rat problem here at Casa De Cardinal.\u00a0 Just when we think we\u2019ve got \u2018em all we hear them in the attic again.About 6 months ago I put wire mesh in the attic vent to keep \u2018em out and they still come. I\u2019ve since found where they\u2019re &#8230; <a title=\"Rats\u2026 Literally\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/01\/rats-literally\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rats\u2026 Literally\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tom-nan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}