what area of Washington?

Kitsap Peninsula  between Bremerton and Gig Harbor.

WOW! THat's a beautiful property! I wonder if I sell my home here can I afford to get something similar on the mainland?

Thank you! I love living in forest area.

Yes, you could certainly buy a much larger place for half the cost of your Hawaii home.   Ours is 5 acres and was well under 350k.


7 miles from the big shopping centers. Feels super remote but actually isn't. 

Probably more appropriate to this forum, we have lots of wildlife for hunters.  Deer, bear, raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, Bald Eagles (don't shoot those!), coyotes, - these are just the ones that have been seen in the yard (previous owners said they've seen bears & coyotes - I've seen the others).

no more rat hunts?

Nope, rats all left once the trash got cleaned up. I didn't see or hear any for the last several months I lived there.  A couple months ago I moved to Washington state.  My wife retired and we wanted a large piece of property in the country.  Couldn't afford that in Hawaii.  We ended up with a large piece of forest with a ~1.5 acre clearing cut out of it - which is where the house is.  Our driveway is 3/4 mile long.  I'll try post some pics but I'm so far out in the boonies I have to have satellite internet now and the upload is god awful slow.

The critters causing me headaches now are moles and gophers.   Remember that ~1.5 acre clearing?  It's mostly grass that has to be mowed.  The moles/gophers are leaving large mounds of dirt all over that the riding mower hates.  Since they stay underground I can't shoot them.  I've tried car exhaust gassing them but that didn't work.  I'll have to see about traps.

Also noticed it's exactly one year since I last posted.

http://www.kitv.com/story/36135809/two-dogs-survive-vicious-mauling-by-hunting-dogs-on-hiking-trail

Anyone knows these two?  screen shots included in case you can't see the post.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stolenstuffhawaii/permalink/1945853669010636/

Any updates?  Guess all the rats must be dead.

You should invest in a terrier to go ratting.

They seem to be mostly gone although I still hear them every now and then.

Before my German Shepherd I had two Jack Russell Terriers.  They would've wreaked hell on the rats.

Does this mark the end of your chronicles?  Will it end as a legend or will the story continue?

Story will continue as long as there are rats or until I move.  I doubt that rats are ever completely gone.  It just may be a while in between kills so not many updates.  It was kinda like that already before I posted the vids and someone put it on facebook after which the media picked up on it.

Fish eating a dead bloated rat

My dog sniffed out another poisoned rat this morning next to the fence. Luckily she's just sniffing and not trying to bite or pick it up. I'm glad she's finding them though.  They stink pretty foul once they start rotting.