Rats

2169 Mission Street has a little bit of a rat problem. Here are some ways you can help:

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On Going

Food and Kitchen

• Do not leave food out after you've left the space. Rats love left overs.
• Use trash cans with lids. Rats love to jump into open cans.
• Wash all your dishes and put them away. Rats love that you don't clean your plate.

General Space

• Don't create hiding space. Rats love to hide under and around tight spaces, such as build out materials.
• Don't create nesting spaces. Rats love them too.
• Don't leave the doors open during the later hours when no one is around. Rats would much rather walk right in than create a new hole to sneak in.

The War on Rats

Geneva Convention

• Can't kill or hurt the rats. --The Vegans
• Can't get a cat. --The Allergenic

Defensive

• Find and eradicate (clean with soap to get rid of any scent they'll want to return it) all nests.
  • Under the stairs leading up to the fire escape.
  • In the elevator room.
  • Under the DJ booth.
  • Possibly under the hack and user shelves.
  • Possibly under all the build out materials next to the classrooms.
  • Possibly under all the spare wood and shelves in the shop.
• Patch all new holes (fill with steel wool and spray foam so they wont bother with it).
  • In the elevator room.
  • Under the DJ booth.
  • Under the stairs leading up to the fire escape.
• Install rubber gaskets/sweepers under doors to reduce space for the rats to run under.
  • Main entrance.
  • Not-a-fire-escape.
  • Door at the end of the stairs under the DJ booth.

Offensive

• Build a better mouse trap.
  • Trap cannot hurt the rats as to not make the vegans angry.
  • Let go of the rats at Pumping Station: One.

Experimental

Ultrasonic

• Get ultrasonic emitters. [1]
• Set them up outside of the space.
  • At the end of the ledge holding the lights in the main stairs.
  • In the not-a-fire-escape stairwell.
  • At the bottom of the stairs under the DJ booth.
• See if any humans can hear them.

Peppermint

• Get some peppermint.
• Spread it around the space without stinking up the space.