I've got to confess this. It's year of the rats and I killed 2 rats, cold blooded but I was left with no choice. They were chewing the bottom part of my doors. Here're the pics.
1st rat.
The rat ran into a dead 'tunnel'. It had no where to run except back out the way it had came in (white arrow). I had no way to catch it or take it out alive. So I took a big steel crow bar which is about 2" thick (the long dark colored bar near the white arrow) and shoved it hard into the 'tunnel', which isn't very wide anyway. The steel bar hit the rat face on, and crunch! It squealed for quite a while. Then I pulled out the bar and smashed it in again. No more sound. I then put some rat glue on another stick and push it into the 'tunnel' and stick the rat and pulled it out. Here's what it looks like.
When I took out the rat, I could see that the back bone was broken. sigh.
2nd rat.
The rat ran behind a kitchen cabinet. I took a torch light and shine behind the cabinet, and I could see it. Again, there's no way I could catch it alive. The only way, again, is to crush it from above... with that same steel crow bar. I aimed the bar, and let the bar go down on the rat. I could feel the bar hit the rat as there was no "clunking" sound of bar hitting the concrete floor. The rat gave a little squeal but almost could not be heard. It then struggled and crawled itself out from behind the cabinet. It was using only it's front legs to pull itself out... leaving a trail of blood as it crawled out. Here're the pics.
The black arrow shows where the rat was hiding, behind the cabinet. That was where I crushed the rat. It then crawled out through that "alley" (where there is a white thingy there) and all the way out to where it is in the picture. Notice the trail of blood near the white thingy. When it crawled out and could not move, I saw it breath it last few breath... sort of like..... breath in breath out...... stop a while...... breath in breath out......stop a while.... breath in breath out.... gone.
This is the dead rat, with a small pool of blood.
Notice the small round white spot just slightly below the front left legs? That's actually the bone pushing against the skin from the inside. I guessed I must've crushed it's bones from the top.
This is the murder weapon.
I really hope rats don't come to my place again because I really don't wanna kill them that way.
