Wednesday (Thursday), February 27th (28th)

Well, it is Year of the Rat... so I suppose today was good luck? We've had an on and off visitor of the ratty variety -- there are numerous ways for one to get in... the drains, the door in the kitchen to the small outside trash/water heater area... it's not as creepy as it sounds. Taiwan is a rabies free zone. But still.

So, we were cleaning and Gosia opened that kitchen door and in it scurried, freaked out, and ran into the small kitchen bathroom, where it knows of a drain escape route. However, apparently, it has been dining well lately because it's fat butt could no longer fit through the drain!

It dove down, wiggled about, then came back out looking befuddled.

So we sent in Ethyl Merman to catch the rat... she sniffed it out, but then we became worried for the great dame's safety so we got her out. Then Gosia went in with the rat trap we'd gotten months ago and trapped it with the aid of a plunger.


Eli and Rhiannon watched the whole thing, Eli armed with a stick.

Then began the discussion as what to do with it....

Rhiannon was thrilled and suggested now it could live in their room, they could feed it and care for it and the like.

Eli just didn't want to kill it, since it was just doing it's thing and just made a mistake by coming inside. The rat squeeked it's own appeals for decency.

So, Eli and I got on the scooter with the rat and drove it over to the local recycling center/basketball court/mini dump and released it there.

Eli wished it a good life, and that's that.