Living in the country brings something new everyday: Like a massive rat in your kitchen at 4:30 in the morning! which managed to somehow breech the house's defenses.
After trying to herd it out your door with towels and the highly excited help of your cat, an excellent mouser (but this is a frickin' rat a third as big as he is), complete with animated shouting and hysterical laughter, you recognize defeat. That's when you pick up the phone to call Long's Pest Control.
Steve, a very nice, honest, hard working young man, will do his best to fit you in. He will arrive masked and gloved. He will get down on his hands and knees, shine lights in darkened spaces, identify holes around pipelines or plumbing which you thought too small, fill them up, climb on the roof, walk the exterior perimeter looking for other egress points, and set out traps (yeah, despite your compassion toward all living beings, that honking huge rat in your kitchen brought out something primal).
When he leaves, having charged you less than half what the not local competitor quoted, you will feel better. And you wont see that rat again- mercifully, not even in a trap. read more