1,2,3,4, rats just want to hop some more…

So, I went out to check on my two little friends just now, hoping to dispose of them—the rats, in a trash can half-filled with water, which I had shoved another trash can into to seal them in below the water line. And what did I find?

Two rats doing the backstroke, and a third rat–dry as a bone–watching them from a bobbing piece of trash. As soon as they saw daylight, they all started hopping again.

I was concerned that I was being cruel to animals. They seem to have thought it was a spa and invited a friend.

I'll be stopping off for an air rifle later this evening.