Buying items from IKEA AKA Rats!

[Ducks]

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Insurance were not interested said we were not covered by vermin, but interestingly if someone had broken in and pi$$ed and $h1t everywhere and wrecked the place I was covered. 
Management company said they had no responsibility as all the sewers and drains in Fuerteventura are full of rats, we got a rat catching company to come in, he was a really funny guy, he came in the door stood and smelt the air, Aahh Rats he said, he the new proceeded to check each room, threw down small bags of bait unopened he told me always when putting down bait to leave it in the wrapper as that way you will know if the vermin have eaten it, other animals will not eat the wrapper as well. Anyway he wedged all the interconnecting doors semi open and placed a glue trap between each doorway so if ratty was going from room to room there was only one route over the glue trap, and that’s where we caught him. 
WE only found out about rat on the Monday and we were due in on Thursday or Saturday I can’t remember anyway we had to rent somewhere else and we had friends coming with us. So the entire holiday was spent organising rat catchers, someone to clear out the place, some one to sanitise the place, and then later refurnish. Luckily all our clothes were safe as they were in wardrobes and chest of drawers that the rat hadn’t  got into, also we never leave food there only my coffee pods and they are in sealed box.

Thank you so much for sharing this entire story! I'd like to say I'll sleep easier for knowing, but... 

How did he survive so long with nothing to eat but paracetamol and coffee pods?! The tenacity of nature is a hell of a thing. I will very definitely be weighing the toilet lids more heavily going forward. Something (else) to remember. 

Thanks so much for the details!

Nearly as bad as the cockroaches? 🤣

Different kind of horror. At least with a rat, he should be a bit easier to locate. (And they can't reproduce quite so quickly.)

[Can the Man]

We reckon the rat had only got in a day or two before our cleaning lady arrived, he didn’t get any of my coffee pods they were in a secure box, all he got to eat as the Solpadene paracetamol. Rats can breed very quickly if they get into a place they interbreed- Incest is best for them 🤪🤪🤪