Got it!!!

So it's 5 in the morning and I'm home alone and probably snoring away when I am awakened by a joyous sound - the rat trap! This little creature has been the bane of my existence for a few weeks now and I am so happy to have finally captured him/her. I turn the lights on to check it out and sure enough it's the rat! We live in the foothills so we have tons of critters but this little one was persistent and destructive - it had eaten through our screen door to have it's own little ratty door and freely came and went when we forgot to close the sliding door. Several avocados were obliterated and the dog food bag was regularly invaded with new cutouts giving the darn ants easy entrance as well. I borrowed a rat zapper from my co-worker but to no avail and to this little rat's fortune, it did not work and before I could try any more to get it to work, my husband convinced me that we could do something more humane - we live in their space anyway, right? (I think these are Norwegian rats, though) So, I got on Amazon and voila! a Havahart rat trap was at my door the next day. So after many days of trying I finally got it and drove it down the hill to the far end of the foothills where there is a big open natural canyon, with a lot of coyotes.