Robert Rafferty

Every little noise and every little, do you know how the way like when you go to sleep in bed and like you say, look the house is settling down at night time and it made like little noises here and little creaks there.

Like you're saying to yourself, could that be a rat in the attic or could that be something in the bedroom?

Now after catching one in the bedroom, in my child's bedroom, it's a little bit disturbing.

But there's no evidence of anything else after being back in there.

That room was totally taken out, it was scoured down.

It was totally cleaned.

Yeah, basically, it's just like the whole family's being traumatised because of it.

I always think about that myself.

So basically...

what we had to do was we had to leave the trap on set and put the food in.

Yeah.

Because rats are neophobic.

They're partially blind.

And we've done a lot of research about this.

They go along skirting boards.

Now, if you were to put a runner in front sideways on a skirting board, what you do is they would know that there's something there.

and they'd know something that was different.

But if that runner was left there for two or three days, they'd go around the runner, the shape of the runner, and back in against the wall, because they know that's there.

So as I said, they're neophobic, and they're partially blind, they can't see.

They hate you, King.