There I was enjoying digging the late spuds, Romano and Picasso, and I started to notice a few nibbled spuds. Thought it must have been a squirrel or maybe a rat.
Pushed the fork into the ground to lift the next plant and reached down to pull a tuber from the ground only to find it strangely furry and with a long tail………..
He/she got thrown across the plot and I fell over backwards, not impressed!
Jerry
What was it Jerry? :o
Not nice, when that happened to me, at least it was the extremely sharp digging fork which went through the rat!
The thought of actually touching one, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
When I was an ickle girl, went to go and get eggs from favourite hen, and found her dead on nest :'(. Picked her up to bury her, and B***Y rat underneath! Had nightmares for years.... Lottie ;D
My OH was turning over the compost heap with the fork when a rat popped up, run up the fork handle, up OH arm. OH did a back flip and was never seen again......
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Jessevieve on September 03, 2005, 21:09:38
What was it Jerry? :o
Ratus Ratus.
My least fav animal I have to admit.
Jerry
Ugh!! What a horrible experience Jerry. Makes my skin crawl to think about it. :) busy_lizzie
Euuuggghhh, that's disgusting :o I'll be making sure I wash my veggies extra well in future, to think there could be rats crawling over them and weeing everywhere.
And remember rat urine carries leptospirosis (weils disease) - nasty! :o
I spent some time living in Fiji working on a reef conservation project and the straw hut we lived in had rats living in the roof. One night I kicked my feet out of the bottom on the mosquito net and one got in, it ran up the full length of my sleeping bag. I woke up when it got to my chest and opened my mouth to scream as it ran over my face. Its foot went in my mouth!!!!! :o :o :'( :'( I slept on the beach for about a week!