John Lindal’s Blog

Building a Rat Cage

It appears that we a have a non-paying renter. Some sort of rodent has decided, reasonably enough, that the vent assembly on top of our water heater in the basement is a very nice place to build a nest. I have decided, reasonably enough, that this house isn’t big enough for the two of us. So I spent yesterday evening down in the basement building a rat cage. Now, eleven years at Caltech has taught me a certain level of flexibility, so after constructing a mesh cage around the vent, I defined the inside of the cage to be everything but the vent, thereby trapping the rat