Having a huge rat/mice problem and it's my fault

[Cashewmilk]

My sister and I were feeding the raccoons and cats, and now we have either rats or mice in the walls of my mom's 1.8 million dollar house (tbf she paid 600K for it 16 years ago). It's all my fault, I feel so horrible. And I think the electricity in my part of the house will go off any day now. It has already gone off on my sister's side of the place and in my room, I am currently using a giant extension cord to power my room. I can't bring the electrician back here because my sister's a hoarder and we have to clean up one of the rooms so they can access the electrical outlet. It's been almost 6 months since they first came, I said we'd call them back next weekend. The rat issue is the worst... it's so bad, I'm already badly suicidal and have been for 20 years, and I've gone through hell and back in my lifetime, but I have to say, this has got to be the worst thing I've ever had to deal with simply because it affects other people and not just me, and it's fucking expensive and my family values money over life. And I've gone through heroin addiction, forced myself into prostitution for 9 years, and other crap. I know that when the exterminator comes and kills the rodents, they will die in the walls and it will smell so bad. I also hate killing rats and using poison, it also affects other wildlife, I hate seeing any animal suffer, I actually like rats and mice but I know they carry diseases and they are a big pest. I hate how rat poison methods are so painful and sadistic, why can't these creatures have a peaceful quick death? I guess if they sold rat euthanasia then we'd all be buying it too for ourselves. At least the damn pest control company could use it with their license and all.

These issues are really making me want to die even more now. I was actually going to give it one more shot and try doing something online with my art stuff, because I'm basically stuck here, I've failed so many attempts and I'm just tired of wasting my time with researching and planning ctb and failing...these kinds of terrible things that happen to me just remind me of how much I hate life and how miserable I am and how much I wish I didn't exist. I always make stupid dumb decisions too and fucked up shit always happens to me even when its outside of my control.

 

[Phuckwad27]

I'm really sorry ypure going through this. Rodents are cute, but a tough situation to deal with. It wasnt necessarily your fault, they were probably already there.

 

[Endeavour]

Sadly there is only one way to get rid of them and that is to kill them. They won't leave of their own accord.

You also need to plug up all gaps they get in through once you've got them out, e.g. any hole the width of a pencil.

Look on you tube there are some very cool things out there for killing them. Some of the bucket traps can catch 20 to 30 in one evening.

Of course you might want to catch them and release them, if you do you'll need to take them miles from your home or they will find their way back.

 

[Cashewmilk]

Sadly there is only one way to get rid of them and that is to kill them. They won't leave of their own accord.

You also need to plug up all gaps they get in through once you've got them out, e.g. any hole the width of a pencil.

Look on you tube there are some very cool things out there for killing them. Some of the bucket traps can catch 20 to 30 in one evening.

Of course you might want to catch them and release them, if you do you'll need to take them miles from your home or they will find their way back.

Yeah I know, I'm okay with it now I mean I'm accepting it now. The exterminator came today, they are rats, we needed to get the situation assessed too, they're inside the walls so this has to be done by a professional, and I just don't have the energy to do all of that stuff, I have physical illnesses that put me out for days at a time. I just spent all morning cleaning outside and cleaned up like 5 pounds of rat feces and nesting material, they were nesting in a spot where I had to put my some of sister's hoard because there's just no space in the house. I know I'll be paying for this tomorrow, I just hope I don't get sick. I'm really really worried about the raccoons now, the guy put snap traps in bait stations with bacon grease but they're not activated yet...I'm gonna have to get them to change the type and make it more safe for raccoons. I'm not the one talking with them my brother in law is doing it, I have social anxiety and can't deal with it.

This is honestly the most mortifying thing I have ever had to deal with. Or one of the most, I have had it worse before with parts of my heroin addiction like when we ran out of drugs and couldn't get it for a month and had to do weak stuff, I was dying that time...and all those times I had to "work", ugh. But this is a different type of hell... I feel so creeped out because they're finding ways in through underground, and this house has an underground basement, another thing is that there was a giant lot sized bushland destroyed recently a block from my house to make way for new apartments, ugh... and I think that's where all the influx of rats have come from. Today there were 3 other pest control trucks on my street servicing other houses, some people are selling their houses here too and just leaving. My sister wants my mom to sell the house, she'd get 1.8 million dollars and be debt free, but she'd spend that 1.8 on a new house plus pay off this house, but then she needs to have rental suites to generate some income so she can finally retire (we live in a stupidly inflated housing market it's not supposed to be this expensive). It's a nice idea but my mom doesn't want to move and then have my sister and her spouse coming with her, my sister emotionally abuses my mom relentlessly. Anyway I'm getting off topic. Hopefully these rats can be gone, then the electricity can get fixed... then finally my life won't be super horrible anymore, I recently cleaned my room and set up my art studio, it looks amazing but everything else is fucked. Since I suck at killing myself, I'm totally stuck in this prison of life.

 

[Echo81]

There are box traps. They are little boxes the rodent runs into and can't get out that's a little better than the rodenticides which I had stocked up on a couple years ago to ctb with. There are also glue traps, which yes, is cruel, but they suffocate pretty quickly. Pest control is rough yes but the house will quickly become a condemned property if drastic measures aren't taken and that's a whole new level of a problem.