Email from "FANS"
The following emails are unedited and not screened. There will be filthy language from the less mature parties so view accordingly.
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| From: John Taylor | 9/9/2006 |
| hi, you son of a bitch! i have a rat problem too. i have chickens, and the rats keep getting into the coop, and eating their food. i would like these rats gone. ive killed about 10, but it seems like there is 1000 of them, because they keep coming back. is there any way that i can attract them so i can get a shot at them? or do you have any other ideas of what i can do? | |
| From: LittleRed | 8/12/2006 |
| CongRATs on a great site. To all those "how-could-you-kill-such-innocent-creatures" people, I say: Did you know that rats spread: Plague - which is spread from rats to people by the oriental rat flea. Murine Typhus - caused by a bacterial organism which is transmitted from infected rats to people also by the oriental rat flea. Rickettsial pox - also caused by a bacterial organism is transmitted by mites from mice to people. Mainly in areas of New York City and several New England Cities. Salmonellosis (acute food poisoning) - is caused by a bacterium which can thrive in sewers, live stock facilities, septic tanks, cesspools, garbage, and other similar environments. It is spread mainly by fecal droppings by rats and mice. Rat Bite Fever - is caused by a bacterium which can live in the saliva of both rats and mice. It has flu like symptoms that can last for days and is sometimes fatal. Leptospirosis, Lymphocytic choriomeningitis, trichinosis, typhoid, dysentary as well as others. Furthermore, one female rat can successfully raise between 40-60 offspring in the space of one year. Think about it next time you consider "just taking it to the woods and letting it go." If this were war, humans would lose. Keep on pluggin' em, Vskills--regards, LittleRed | |
| From: J | 7/4/2006 |
| Saw your site from a search. i have rats in my garage as well. Do the same as you do. Clean house, kid, and I have a cat as well. I simply have no time for a dog but would love to have one. I use a remington airmaster 77. Originally i thought I had 4 rats because I set up a camera for a couple of days and only saw 4 for a few nights straight of baiting them before going on the garage safari. Do they make a non breaking barrel pellet gun? I want to use complete accuracy. I don't know exactly how accurate your rifle is because I don't own one. I imagine a non breaking barrel would be more accurate with a laser sight or a scope. I have called an exterminator and have taken precautions to keep the rats out but for any future rodents found i'd like to be as quick and deadly as possible to them. To the people that find this type of site objectionable. You all probably don't have these types of animals moving into your house out of the blue as well. You couldn't understand the guy killing these things because you never had to do it yourself yet. The exterminator is only so good and the only way to get the rats in a way where they wont crawl into the walls after death is to kill them right away. J | |
| From: Mom in Oklahoma | 4/24/2006 |
| My opinion is that is isn't so bad! I killed about six in one night. I left out a vase to soak the gunk out of the bottom. In the morning I had six of the little buggers. I'm not sure what kind they were. I do think that they are pretty. It's amazing to me that God took the time to make even little rats perfect. If you are really into killing them you might think that it was funny that they were all frozen in different poses as they drowned in the water. I had been squeamish about throwing them out. I thought that I would wait for my husband. But I threw them out and have killed many more since. When I grew up in the country we had RATS and I mean RATS. Big suckers! Huge suckers. My dad had to make special traps. When those things were trapped they would scream!!!! If you don't want a cat, get a snake. What happens in nature is there are snakes to eat them. When you live near the country you just have them. That's just a real fact of life. It's better to kill them than to have the unsanitary rat droppings everywhere. please remove my husband's name from your fan mail, just write: MOM IN OKLAHOMA On a personal note you should look up people that hate Squirrels. They really hate them. They have shirts and magazines and websites. | |
| From: Johnny White | 4/11/2006 |
| hey just like the say your a great role model =P Iam in england and due to stupidly paranoid neighbors & police forces its hard to use my air gun n bb gun. i dont have a paticular rat problem but i get half dead animal baught in by the family cats. keep up the great work & take no notice what so ever to any hippies or vegeterians that ell you that your cruel or sick. im sure your tryin to kill in the most humane way possible. same as every other natural predetor. >Steve | |
| From: Nat | 9/29/2005 |
| I've read that any cheap, old beer in a wide shallow container will kill rodents fairly cleanly. Supposedly, the carbonation cannot be handled by a rodent body. So even flat beer has enough to make a rat burp to death. Sounds like bullshit to me. Have you tried it? | |
| From: Zak | 9/8/2005 |
| Man, I just got to your site at random and began reading from kills 1-15. Sounds just like me at my house, but anyway you’ve done a great job with those rats, and it’s cool that you go for the head rather than torturing them, or intentional body shots. I was wondering how you got all those headshots, luck or do you have some kind of practice tool? Anyway great site, keep up the good work -Zak | |
| From: ajcz (from ratkill.com | 6/25/2005 |
| wonderful bangup job oh yeah could u send me the video clip from unscrewed at the email above i love your rathunting ajcz rat+gun=whole lotta fun | |
| From: Bryan Gooden | 5/16/2005 |
| Looked like nice,clean kills to me.When we moved into a house in an older part of town years ago,we trapped "ratty" under a milk crate- in the living room,which was still full of boxes.We were scared to lift the crate,I had no bbguns,firearms,or blowguns anymore(small children).The kids got sent outside,and with my wife holding the crate to the floor and wall firmly with a sponge type mop,I proceeded to viciously stab "ratty" to death through the openings of the crate with the only thing I had available-a 102" cb antennae.It had no ball on the end as I had cut it to a custom length for use with a different radio.It took like 25 stabs-I was shocked at the amount of punishment that damn rat could take.These people bitching have NO IDEA how big an adult rat is-my one and only kill (thank god) was at least 15" long,including tail.The confrontation ended with me forcibly holding "ratty" against the back of the inside of the crate with the antennae as I worked it all the way through him-it still took him 10 minutes to die.We told the kids we released him outdoors,which I had considered,but I didn't want it coming back in.Keep Hunting!! I can stand ants+mice,but NOT rats+roaches. P.S.-they make .45 caliber airguns,and they make 1000 fps models of .177/900fps .22 The .45 is pre-charged and pnuematic,made in korea-check the web. | |
| From: Sam Sanchez | 5/16/2005 |
| I also am very respectful of animals, but when they become a huge pest like seen in your old house it is neccesarry, by the way, you are a hell of a shot man, get more content on your site, WAY TO GO. | |
| From: SDR | 5/16/2005 |
| Hey Vern, I loved your site -- particularly your thoughts on the subject. I think your whole experience might make a great musical. Can you and Jose sing? Sy | |
| From: Peiter Hageman | 4/12/2005 |
| What you are doing is a great thing, despite all the critism you get. Some people state you are doing wrong, killing innocent rats and then put them on your site. The facts are that rats are a pest and can spread several harmfull deseases. Rats get killed all the time for that and there even are corporations that specializes in killing the little animals. I think that shooting the rats is not the most effective way to get rid of them, but the don't die in agony like when they're poisened (the way that most rats get killed) Putting them on your website even gives them honor, they will live on in all the computers that log in to your website. So I wish you all the best with your hobby. There's nothing wrong with a little bit of hunting, especially when no protected animals are killed. Greetings, Pieter The Netherlands P.S. excuse me for my somewhat poor english. I'm not a native speaker. | |
| From: Dr. Coro | 4/12/2005 |
| Awesome hunting dude! You are doing a good service, be careful though, rats carry fleas that carry disease, & not just the plague. You should film more of your kills, you should try & eat one. In the Philippines they sell rat meat in a can like tuna its called star, [which is rats spelled back word]. Dr. C | |
| From: Shadow | 3/31/2005 |
| you are one hell of a shooter on #55! yeah i have just today found out there are other people like me trying to get rid of my rat problem. the thing is i live in chicago and there's rats everywhere. but no matter how hard i try the always get into the yard and the garage. i cant try the poison or the broken glass cause i too have a half german shepherd half husky dog and another german/lab/husky. which they both had caught a couple of them but the vet said they were fine. your motion detector is a brilliant idea. I'm goin to try but in your stories you said something about a red light dont really understand that is it hard for notice it or something??? but please get back to me really soon i would greatly appreciate it because it wont be long until they get into the house and i dont want that. talk to you soon | |
| From: Jaikl Mouse | 3/29/2005 |
| just spent an excellent hour laughing my way through your site! excellent fun. i'd just like to say to all those soft liberal ass hippy vegetarian tree huggers out there to shut up, i hope one day they realise how pathetic they have become, and they get their food eaten by rats and starve to death! ...ahem, rant over. My Grandad and Father were all rat hunters in their day, now i am the hunter in the family! got a few air rifles, thing is the only pest we have at the moment are seagulls, can't shoot them (yet!) | |
| From: Alma Galinski | 3/22/2005 |
| Hey, You are right, Those rats are a bunch of bastards that like dto scare the bejesus out of me when I am doing the laundry. I have dogs. If I put them in the garage, will the rats still come into the garage? I have a black lab and a german shepard/ikeda mix dog. I dont know what else to do. What do you think about those noise repellants? let me know Take care, ALMA | |
| From: Pierre-Luc Champagne | 3/22/2005 |
| Hi i saw the gun you were using to kill those rats but i have one problem in Canada having a gun that shoots pellets faster then 500 feet per seconde is illegal(need a license) the gun i curently have shoot pellets at 450 feet per second, is this powerful enough to kill rats? (i use pointed pellets) | |
| From: Olympeus | 7/15/2004 |
| fuck you sick bastard. I hate rats as much as you do but you are to stupid and fat to understand that a rat has right on a life too dude. A rat can's do anything about the fact that he's a rat and that you hate him.. If you hate someone are you going to shoot him as well then? I don't think so! I will do anything in my power (which is pretty much) to get your fucking thingy (it is not even worth of the names: website, site, homepage, page or something because it sucks harder then your grandma) hacked of the internet. You must go to a hospital with sour desease dude. I hope that you will die very early in your life and that you would die a horrible death!!!!!!!! Crazy assfuckking punk, motherfucker, go fuck your daddy incest graver!!!! | |
| From: simon lang | 7/15/2004 |
| Hi, Beter Go kill people and be a real man! Killing rats is for pussies.. Simon! | |
| From: Jason | 5/5/2004 |
| I saw the interview on "Unscrewed" and wanted to check your site out. Wow, it is great in a cool but disturbing way. It's kind of like watching a car accident, it horrifies you because they are living things, but the carnage and, in your case necessity, draws you to the scene. I feel sorry for the rats but also I applaud your tenacity and marksmanship. One last thing, after reading through your emails I noticed that the people who despise you and threaten you because of your chosen method of pest control have some of the worst grammar, sentence structure, and spelling I have ever seen. Anyway I look forward to kill 55. | |
| From: Santiago | 5/5/2004 |
| Hey, Your site was fucking hilarious in a sad and disturbing way. I wish you'd hire an exterminator or something instead of smoking these rats with a pellet gun, though I have gunned down a many birds in midflight with my bb guns too. Your site presents a humorous look at your exploits to rid yourself of ratdom but then it's also vicious in it's lengthy execution. I'm torn in two, like some of those rats. Keep up the good work, - Santiago. | |
| From: Jacob | 5/5/2004 |
| first off, your site kicks ass, i would dispose of them the same way, and all those people waving their rats rights signs sgould sit down and shut up. what about the snakes that people kill daily, you NEVER hear anyone say ANYTHING about not killing them. I myself have five snakes and do not promote the killing of snakes, not do my herpetological bretheren. BUT we do kill rats to feed to our snakes, so i only find hilarium in our site. BTW your pictures and narration are exceptional. keep up the good work -Jacob Wine | |
| From: Tim | 5/4/2004 |
| Hey great job on documenting your adventures in extermination. and What humors me the most is the compassionate emails of the bleeding heart animal lovers. They have no realization of what a house full of rats can be like whether your dealing with the health factor or the destructiveness of rats. There really is no other solution then killing them. A mass relocation process would not only take months but would be dangerous to your health as you would have to be handling rats constantly. Your a bigger man then most of your critics will ever be. Keeping taking out the rodents and remember there trespassing on your property and you've got every right to fight back.. Tim | |
| From: Some Moron | 5/4/2004 |
| Those look like mice to me......not rats | |
| From: The King of Argentina | 5/4/2004 |
| Why don't you just get a cat? Perhaps your dog would eat it? My cat does a very good job of keeping the mice down. Only problem is that she brings dead mice from other peoples yards. The one thing she hardly ever gets is rats with bushy tails. AKA squirrels. Maybe I should take your pellet gun idea and clean out my yard. PS: list my return address on your site as kingofargentinaatyahoo.com. Might keep the spam down. The King of Argentina | |
| From: Robbi | 5/4/2004 |
| saw you on tech tv thought you might be interested in this my self and fellow employees were tring to solve a rodent problem in the warehouse when we saw an ad in a local newspaper for a "canned" deer hunt we figured why not get someone else to do our dirty work I think you will find our solution amusing best of luck to you in your quest robbi | |
| From: Stephen | 5/4/2004 |
| This site is so awesome. I just saw the clip on Unscrewed. To think I could have gone my whole life and not seen this. I too have spent time in the quest to kill rats and I salute you sir. You are an inspiration. And a damn good shot. Let them eat lead. One shot, one kill. That's an Army thing, but I think it fits well here. The site will be bookmarked. -Stephen | |
| From: Alvaro | 5/3/2004 |
| U are seriously "THE MAN" so u can realize that rats and other varmint are common around here, i'm a very active hunter (shoot at what ever mooves or is on season), so i can understand the pleasure of the kill, it is instinctive; only someonethat has experienced it can see y you preffer to shoot than to trap. keep up the good work!!!! :^) | |
| From: Austin | 5/3/2004 |
| LOL, your site is so hilarious and so wrong at the same time, but probably more hilarious. Reading your stories reminds me of the days when my dad would shoot cats in our front yard that were taking a crap (he used a BB gun though, didn't kill um). Keep up the good work! | |
| From: Brain | 5/3/2004 |
| I have recently moved to the basement of my house and discovered a population of little motherfuckers. Their shit is jammed between the carpet and the molding at the base of every wall in my basement. They are entering through the 1/2" gap between the door and the doorjamb (I think) I have got one with a blowgun and 4 with traps, but the last straw was when one woke me up by biting my ear, it is on like donkey Kong now. What is the significance of using red lights? And I got some 22 shells that are like a pill capsule with a bunch of tiny shot in them, should I use those?shot in them, should i use those? write me back, thanks Brain | |
| From: Some Dude Named John | 5/2/2004 |
| hi if you think you have an infestation you should see our hog barns one good day there could end up with a head count of about 20 and on the superb days 40 to 50 all of which are somewhere from 6 to 12 inches long (body only)!! the only tools my friend and I use are blunt tools and something to get them out with unless we are feeling lazy then we use pellet guns instead of blunt tools. and if you have a true infestation in your house you should try taking of the sheets of drywall and just use blunt tools to maximize the daily total then just lay some poison and put the drywall back and be done. ps please don't show my email | |
| From: Ken | 5/2/2004 |
| LMAO,you should try a Co2 pellet gun...no pump just aim and fire again and again till you get them or you can try my favorite... use a neon light transformer connected to two pieces of metal (copper works best) space them about 5-10 inches apart (depending on transformer size) using non conductive wood or plastic dowels, slap a piece of yummy rat food in the middle and plug it into your motion sensor when you here the ZAP of electricity its done. be sure to unplug before removal of body or you could get zapped yourself! Good luck | |
| From: Mike | 5/1/2004 |
| Dude, you are sick. But I applaud you taking the time to catalog and document your kills. I would probably do the same thing if I was in your position, but just don't have the stones to take the picks and put them on my webpage. Keep up the good work! Mike. | |
| From: Sam Judd | 3/9/2004 |
| LOVE your site!!... How much time elapsed between kill 1 & 54 ?..... If I thought I could have this much fun,I'd try to grow an avocado tree in my yard..... When I was a kid I shot a lot of rats in my neighborhood (there was drainage ditch behind the houses on my street that was swarming with them at night) with a .22 loaded with ratshot & equipped with a flashlight... I was even able to shorten the barrel on the second gun I had as it was fed from a magazine instead of from a tube under the barrel.... I never knew they couldn't see red light.... that makes for some interesting scenarios.... I also LOVE the letters from those obviously disturbed people telling you what a monster you are for ridding your property of vermin... I guess they'd be content to co-habitate with rats... them's some sick puppies out there.... Keep up the good work... Sj | |
| From: Unknown | 3/9/2004 |
| I endorse your heroic endeavors. When I am up for a job in the Federal Government, possibly the Supreme Court, I am sure this endorsement will get me into a lot of trouble. Men with useful hobbies should be encouraged | |
| From: James Conine | 3/8/2004 |
| Dude, you by far have the Koolest web site i'v seen in a while. Nice shots of your shots too. Good luck on getting your 100'th kill. i think everyone should kill at least 100 creatures in a lifetime. Kone | |
| From: grandpa | 3/8/2004 |
| dude.... FIND A WOMAN....NOW....QUIT JERKING OFF....ITS NOT HEALTHY....AND STOP LOOKING AT THE RATS TO GET OFF...ALSO NOT HEALTHY....hey jason ladd u got anything to say?....all you are is another sick pervert in this world that was probably touched in the pants as a child by your parents, grandparents, priest, ect. ect. stop taking out your sexual fustrations on these innocent animals all your proving is that victims of child abuse grow up to be weak minded sons of bitches with no real ambitions GROW THE FUCK UP | |
| From: Alexander Karp | 3/8/2004 |
| You're so sick, I hope you're getting shot by some freak after he just raped you and you goin to burn in hell while being raped in your ass an mouth by Adolf Hitler. I hate you and all your action. If we ever meet I promise I'll be the one who fuckin kills you. Some_German_Guy | |
| From: .22Luver | 3/3/2004 |
| V Skills. Where is #55? You killed them all? Great shooting! Keep up the good work. I've seen mice die in traps and I've seen mice die from shooting. The mice that have been shot die quickly. I've seen some in traps that get broken legs -- but still get away. They then have to live disabled. I have seen some mice just caught in traps for hours before they die. I don't know that shooting them with an airgun is LESS humane than trapping them. .22Luver | |
| From: .22Luver | 3/3/2004 |
| Here is a site for those visitors of yours that don't appear to understand why you dislike rats: http://www.total-pestcontrol.co.uk/lee/rats.htm .22Luver | |
| From: Erin Potter | 2/26/2004 |
| Dearest SICKO, ok i'd understand if you have a rat problem... id even UNDERSTAND you wanting to kill the little things with a gun BUT WHY do you have to Show them on the internet like some trophy? i myself i TWO PET RATS and i love them dearly... so if you could be so kind PLEASE add in a part or something that lets these POOR TINY creatures to rest...Becuase if you don't I WILL REPORT YOU TO BECAUSE IT IS A FORM OF ANIMAL ABUSE. YOU CAN NOT JUST KILL ANIMALS AND THEN POST THEM ON THE INTERNET LIKE SOME KIND OF GAME. You are taking a life.. and this is a what if thing... But ... What IF aliens came and decided that WE were the pests of the earth and KILLED you the same way you have been killing those POOR rats. I know for a FACT that YOU would not like that at all... so next time you think.. "gee i have nothing better to do ... i know lets go kill a poor helpless rat!" think about how it would be like if some one came and kill you or/and your family!!!!! Thank you for reading this and i hope that it puts SOME compassion in your heart. RAT parent and Animal Helper Erin | |
| From: Williams, Andrea | 2/17/2004 |
| what is wrong with you...haven't you ever heard of relocating...or using humane traps.... if you really enjoy all of this killing...you need help.. | |
| From: Matthew Lawson | 1/8/2004 |
| My home was recently invaded by rats/mice and i have ordered a few blowguns and am going to get a pelet gun. Question is: did u set up a flood light to the motion detectors? In my kitchen i have planed to use an IR Chem light w/ my nightvision to wax the bastids. They are all in my attic as well as the walls and there is no light in the attic. The IR chem lights are getting to expensive so im going to have to switch to just plane red ones. | |
| From: Dave Murphy | 12/15/2003 |
| Where's kill #40!?!? I am sure I'm not the only one out there cheering you on. Keep up the good fight! Dave "Headhunter" Murphy Lincoln Nebraska | |
| From: Amanda Johnson | 10/10/2003 |
| Hey, 1. Your website is HILARIOUS!!!! You're a brave one for posting those pics, but I dig 'em. 2. Is your band going to be playing anytime soon? 3. If you ever come across any small rats, let me know-I've got a snake that would LOVE it:-D Thanks- Amanda | |
| From: minsc182 | 6/30/2003 |
| you are weake you are in pitty you would not stand against me i would kill you brake you nek like a match let you bleed i would not mind lets us meet some time you vs me it would be good let me feel good me kill you so good look into you eyes, they see nothing, i see you,...nothing,... sucker,...hahahaha,... mail me,...blekberry123@hotmail.com | |
| From: Blowgun Joe | 6/7/2003 |
| Hey VS, Saw your post on RatKill and thought I would shoot you some mail. Nice work on #16...That's a shame! Made me laugh. And the poor bastard that died for year-old peanut butter. What a freakin' loser! My Website address has changed, so if you update your links: http://www.adventuresportsla.com/info/blowgunjoe/ I has one of those little baby's on the bird feeder last week and missed him. First rat litter of the summer. Should be seeing some more action soon. Good to see you back at RatKill bro. Joey | |
| From: Brian Millager | 2/20/2003 |
| The "if you're a member" thing is great! Nice work on the site. | |