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Whose paw print was that??!

Who knew all it took for me to get out of a funk was a dead, funky rat? Let’s vlog about that!

I live in the countryside, and across the road from my house, my neighbours keep chicken and horses, which means the rodent population in this area is strong. I get my fair share of the rodents regularly visit my quarters, but thankfully, the ones who get indoors, are mostly tiny mice. I’ve also managed to block most entryways to my kitchen and livingroom, and my little visitors can’t access my inner sanctum anymore - but I have traps in my hall / bathroom wing (this is a really tiny house, so wing is a bit of an overstatement), and I catch a mouse every now and then. I have an agreement with the surrounding nature - if the animals come to my home uninvited, I have the right to kill them. If I disturb wild animals in their living quarters, they have equal rights to kill me. But in today’s vlog, no-one is getting killed. The culprit to the mysterious stink in Link’s house is most certainly already dead, and the mission for today is to find the carcass.

But in today’s vlog, no-one is getting killed. The culprit to the mysterious stink in Link’s house is most certainly already dead, and the mission for today is to find the carcass.

My parents have a much bigger house than I do, and they get some mice in the attic every now and then - and because they rarely go there, the way they sometimes find out there’s a mouse caught in a trap is by the horrifying smell that comes down through the air vents. My mom has a really bad sense of smell, so usually it’s me who smells it first, when dropping by. It’s amazing how much a tiny mouse can smell - and I can only imagine how horrifying a bloated dead rat is. My parents also have had rats a few times, and the most recent one took weeks to catch, but fortunately we finally caught it and it didn’t have time to start smelling.

(In case you’re asking why it was me and my mom who did the hunting, and not my dad...let’s just say that my dad is a gentle spirit, and unfazed by the expectations put on the male gender by the society. He does own blue overalls, though.)

Link has invited Rhett over to his house to find the stink, and Rhett arrives, looking like a very tall truck driver. Somehow, he pulls off the look quite well - and we should probably get used to it, since a hat is an efficient way to control the mane. I wonder when we are getting a new Mythical hat, I have the black and camo one from a couple of years back, and I’d very much like another (it turned out to be a useful thing to wear in the sun, after I got over the fact that I, too, look like a truck driver wearing it.)

Turns out, the Neals have an actual rat problem. My personal opinion is that they should probably get an exterminator to drop by. One rat trap isn’t going to solve this - and based on how Jade prefers to sniff the house plants instead of guarding the house from furry intruders, she is no help in the battle.

I really envy the fancy coffee maker. My dad has one, and I regularly drop by just to drink coffee just because it grinds the coffee beans. But it would be an overkill to buy an expensive thing like that just for myself, when I drink two cups (well, two enourmous mugs, really) max per day. Which reminds, me, now would be a good time to make that second cup. But isn’t this nice?

Oh man, Link’s overalls are exactly like the ones my dad has, and just like my dad, he has to make a little dance performance after putting them on. I don’t want to think that Link is just like my dad, only 30 years younger. And then he does things like this. When he walked through the gate wearing a head lamp, I cracked up. My dad ALWAYS wears a head lamp when he does something where he needs to see properly. Is there some manual of how to be a dad where they teach this stuff?

For someone who doesn’t watch horror films that often, Link really knows how to enter the space under his house in a very genre accurate way. This vlog could easily be turned into a horror film, and I’m personally a little scared of what’s to come. But I’m sure we’d heard by now if the guys somehow ended up eaten by giant rats while filming this, so maybe they’re ok.

Now that we got Link under the house, I want to tell a story about a rat who lived under my parents’ trash can (outside) one year. I was house watching for my folks while they were traveling, and because it was November, it was the time of year when mice usually start coming inside houses to escape the winter. I caught 6 mice during the two weeks, and each time I caught one, I took it to the outside thrash can, in a plastic bag.

My parents knew the trash can needed to be replaced, because it had a hole in the bottom, and when they finally came back home, they dropped by to get a new trash can. When they went on to remove the old trash can from the place it was standing in, a rat ran away from under it, and was never seen again. It had been living under there for a while, and had organized the space very neatly. The dead mice I had carried out were lined up next to each other in one corner, and the plastic bags in which they used to be, were in another corner. The rat was saving the mice to eat later.

So, that pile of trash under Link’s house, was most likely put there by either the rats while tidying the place, or by whatever animal it was that left that paw pring in the dirt. I think that could be a raccoon paw print - they have five “fingers” like humans. Looks like the Neal house is home to all kinds of creatures, big and small. I wonder if the raccoons took food under the house, and the food attracted the rats to come over, too?

Link crawling in thight small spaces reminds me of the movie Descent, and that is possibly the scariest film I’ve ever watched. I’m so glad he got out of that hole alive.

How old exactly is the house Link lives in? The roof space looks like it’s been there for decades, and for some reason I assumed this was a fairly new building. Whoever owned the place before the Neals was obviously aware of the rats, so I really hope Link gets someone professional to sort this out before he has to sit on the sofa with a family of rats to watch tv.

Well, at least the source of the stank is found, and probaly only hours before an explosion which would have made things even more unpleasant. And because this gruesome story can’t really get any worse at this point, I’m going to say that a dead rat is food for more rats - and leaving rat traps unattended means that if they ever caught anything, they probably lured more rodents to the space. And who knows what other creatures, flies and bugs, and...eww.

I know the reason the rat looks so chubby is because it’s literally ready to explode, but that is by no means, a small rat. Are rats, like everything else, bigger in America? (I was going to place the screenshot of the stinker here, but let’s just not do that.)

So, what did this vlog teach us? As the sorroful notes of the trumpet travel across the neighbourhood (I wonder what Link’s neighbours thought of this?), and the rat is put into it’s temporary resting place (before the dump), we can admire Link for his bravery in dealing with this ordeal. We can appreciate the fact that Rhett looks like a senior skateboarder with his cap reversed (I prefer this version of his look).

Most of all, we now know that under the peaceful exterior of the Neal residence, someone with five fingers in each of their hands, crawls in the dead of night, looking for a way to access the house, and the innocent people and dog, who sleep in their beds, thinking they are safe.

Let’s not think about that.

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My claustrophobia is killing me watching Link under his house AAAARGGGHHH

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Flutters: Please don’t start a scene rainbow..

by luvconnor

Wanna see all the vlogs? Check out Andrew's new platform #HoneyPotts. Here's just a taste of what you'll get. A little snippet from Vlog #7 with special appearance from Neil Jackson (with thanks to luvconnor)

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