For two days I had a rat living in my basement.It was about 1/2 a foot long,with out the tale!!!!! Then I was sitting where I am right now(in the living room)and I heard something.I thought it was coming from the garage,but turns out,the stupid thing had gotten in our attic!!!!!!We had some mouse poison up there,but we think he ate it,cause we found him laying beside the rat trap we had set down in the basement.My dad put it in a garbage bag and stuck it in the garbage can outside.My mom saw it later,moving around in the bag.My dad took a hammer and smashed it's head in. That's probably something Ben likes,but hey,I HATE RATS!!!!(I've got the shivers right now just thinking about it)