A rat died in my wall (or ceiling), and it smells terrible. I'm leaving town for a week, what can I do to make sure the smell is gone (or greatly diminished) by the time I come back? [more inside]
posted on Mar 21, 2008 - 13 answers

The U.S. calendar new year sucked for my sister and me so we'd like to commemorate Chinese New Year today. How can we celebrate the Year of the Rat? [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - 7 answers

What to do about an extra "pet" rat. We have two domestic rats who get a bit of freedom (out of the cage for ~ 1hr per day so there is a risk of temporary escape). But now an extra rat has come into the house. Previously I've used poison to get rid of rat visitors (we live next to a creek so they're pretty common round about) but I'm reluctant to do so in case one of the pets escape. Any suggestions on how to proceed? The two pets are called "Dotty" and "Stripey" btw so we've christened the visitor "Hidey"
posted on Mar 14, 2007 - 15 answers

What was (is) so great about Sinatra? [more inside]
posted on Feb 22, 2007 - 34 answers

OK, so I'm sitting here with one of my buddies, talking about his research, and we realized that we know the word for "of or relating to mice" (murine), and the word for "of and related to cow" (bovine), but have no clue what the word for "of or related to rat" is. And after what we thought of as a pretty comprehensive web search (including this very good Google Answer), we're no closer to an answer. Anyone know what the word we're looking for is?
posted on Sep 16, 2006 - 14 answers

A rat just swam up into my toilet. Can I flush it back down?
posted on May 22, 2006 - 43 answers

How do I kill a rat? [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2005 - 45 answers

Oh my god - is that a moth or a flying rat? [MI][moths][uk (possibly)]
posted on Jul 24, 2004 - 27 answers