Wildlife Logic

Ok... we tried everything to get rid of this nice Greek lady's attic rat problem, we sealed up the house, trapped and removed 6 rats from her home using lethal rat traps... but she repeatedly said that she still had rats keeping her up nights.

We were pretty sure she was experiencing ghost rat or mouse hallucinations... this is where customers- especially those who are particular grossed out by the rats and mice in their attics, wall voids our under the home in a crawlspace actually interpret any sounds a previously rodent infested home makes as a sure signal that the rats or mice are back and they will chew or gnaw up their wires, ductwork or waterlines costing them tons of dollars in repairs... which means they call us at any hour of the day or night to let us know that they still have rats and to inquire as to what we are going to do about it.

We hired other companies to come out and inspect the home in the apopka-vineland area of Orlando just to see if a new set of eyes could discern a problem we missed, but we were gratified when all reports came up negative as to rats or mice remaining in the house.

But our customer kept hearing scurrying and scratching noises in the attic that she was sure was caused by a rat...

Now we have a perfect record when it comes to rat removal... and we were sure that we had gotten rid of all the rats as a good rat and mouse extermination company should, but every now and then a case comes along to test our rodent removal expertise... so we decided to place a video camera in the attic just to satisfy our customer and to put to bed once and for all the idea that she still had rats.

Wouldn't you know it, there was the rat (luckily just one) running through the picture giving us the finger... it wasn't ghost rat syndrome after all.

Our customer still had rats.

Over the next 3 days we tried everything to catch this insanely cautious rat but the rat won. he would not allow himself to be caught... and then we noticed that every time we saw the rat on the video, he was heading toward a box above the lady's bedroom by the entrance to the attic. we asked the lady about the box but she was adamant about the box and its content being in no way attractive to rats, but we pointed out that rats could find shelter in the box and as we were talking the lady's husband joined in and told us to search the box over the lady's objections.

upon searching the box, we found the reason for this rats resourcefulness, a 5lb box of Jordan Almonds (the lady's favorite snack) was hidden in the attic storage box. Our customer had been ordered by her husband and her doctor to loose some weight and lower her cholesterol and she was forced to give up the Jordan almonds as part of her forced diet and she was cheating on said diet by sneaking up to the attic and eating her favorite treat. Embarrassing for all concerned to say the least.

we removed the candy, put the storage box (complete with rat hole chewed in the bottom corner) back in the attic with a rat trap baited with a piece of Jordan almond and had our "Einstein rat" within 48 hrs.

now i can't eat Jordan almonds ever again.