Sue Stenhouse spends her days figuring out how Rhode Island officials should calmly deal with disaster. But when a rat scurried through her office, her natural response was to jump on a chair, snap it with rubber bands and threaten to spritz it with Obsession.
— From Eek! Rats giving RI Statehouse staffers a scare at NPR.
Hilarious! Particularly that Obsession threat. That would be enough to make me surrender!
Agree! Especially love that just the *threat* was enough!
And finally, a news bit that includes the name of the perfume! Great story.
Yeah, so glad they named the perfume. My choice for vermin killing would be Opium though.
I didn’t enjoy it when I had a couple “juvenile” rats who thought it was fun to play around in my apartment kitchen at night last spring. Old house + semi-wild neighborhood + wildlife = recipe for being creeped-out.
Yikes! we get more than our share of skunks and raccoons but at least they stay OUTSIDE where wildlife is supposed to be!
We saw *one* rat but lots of evidence of chewing in our thankfully unattached garage just after we bought our house. A few weeks later while we were lounging on our patio, we found a very friendly little stray kitten who appeared to have gotten lost. He was stuck on the garage roof meowing for all he was worth and my hubby first thought he was a bat. We got him down and adopted him, and our garage has been rat-free ever since.
We have a twelve-year-old Siamese indoor cat, but she wouldn’t dream of hunting *anything* if it’s not the odd housefly or junebug. But our indoor/outdoor cats are great for pest control and cost much less than an exterminator.
I wonder if Obsession would have had the same effect on the rat as it did on the tigers? Lol My hubby also likes Ciara, and that’s really strong stuff if you don’t know what you’re doing. I imagine that would stun anything smaller than your average five-year-old, so it’d likely be a sure thing for rodents.
The RI Statehouse ought to borrow your cat
Next time my father goes to a meeting in the State House (home of the Fayva Factree, aka the Legislacha), he should bring my sister’s dog. Shadow appears to be lab and setter and she is the Terror of Rats and Squirrels.
With two dogs and four cats (too far from RI to visit the state house), I have never seen a rodent in the house except for the freshly deceased rat that Casey the lab brought in from the yard. I could actually hear the cats thinking that dogs might be good for something after all. (Good girl! Destroy rats! But please leave them outside!)
Wonder how Calvin Klein is taking this.
They’re too busy promoting CK Free on Twitter to notice.
LOL LOL. I remember my one and only CK….cKone I believe. Never really got into any of their other fragrances.
When I read this I LOL. I owned rodents when I was younger. They should just get some of those ultrasonic pest repellents, but the Obsession would of had me running too!
It’s not at all clear the Obsession worked though!
LOL
This reminds me of the time my BFF twarted a house invasion by an ant colony with a bottle of White Diamonds. They never came back!!!
Excellent!
Ooh ooh ooh! Excellent idea! As an advanced beginner perfumista, I’ve got a small collection of bottles that would find their rightful place in the world as ant repellent.
Many years ago my nephew borrowed my Tabu to kill a spider. Now I feel bad for the spider. I mean I like Tabu, but it seems a mean way to kill a spider.
I have absolutely Febreeze-d more than one insect to death.
It’s good for more than just spraying down the bathroom after my fiance does his business.
Lysol and Scrubbing Bubbles are also effective weapons of chemical death.
at least the insects that dare to cross your path enter the afterlife clean and smelling good!
Shhhhhhhhh…. PETA might be listening!
Ack.
LOL.
I also wanted to put a smiley to it, but how do I get them? Thanks.
Type : – ) but with no spaces.
-) thanks
You forgot the colon.
Eyes without a face… Oh, wait, that would be face without eyes.
Thanks a lot, Miss Kitty, that’s an earworm that’s never going to go away!
New, from the house of Ortho: cK be-Gone
HA!!
LOL…perfect!
Funny!
I saw the article this morning and immediately thought of NST – glad to see you put it up.
Hey I wear Obsession… rarely but I do keep a bottle kicking around.
We all joke about the loud fragrances, but it is a great scent and it’s not surprising that it still has so many fans.
As usual, it’s not what you wear, but how you wear it. (Or how much you wear.)
Personally, I’m more afraid of Obsession than I could ever be of rats. Actually, I love rats. (But I’m allergic to Obsession. Don’t mind it on others, break out in a rash if I wear it.)
I really like Secret Obsession – I wonder if it’s effective at pest control too? A perfume that wards off unwanted vermin – that’s bang for your buck!
There must be cheaper ways though, LOL…
Ever seen that movie Ratatouille? I wonder if the rat would ever develop a taste in fine fragrances because of the Obsession blast, come back for more, or start sniffing around at Sephora and the like.
Yes — I liked that one!
oh my, does my brain is in comma or what?
after reading all of your comments i almost thought that she threaten the rat with obsession because firstly, rats loved to be gross and dirty, and the threat is for rat to go away or youll gonna smell good with obsession… but reading the comments.. everybody implicates that obsession is a worst perfume that even rat will surrender??
hahaha i cant even figure out which is which… lol
and Sue make me wonder that if obsession is way too low fragrance, still bring it in office (or does she buy CK for insecticide purpose) and ck obsession is the first perfume to grab when your in panic with rat attack@
i cant even think properly! but thanks for sharing robin!
I think it was just the only perfume she had on hand, and no matter what it was, it would be funny!
YA I’D KILL MYSELF BEFORE it touches me. kekeke
LOL!
I tried killing a spider by spraying perfume on it too, I think it was Givenchy Very Irresistible. It definitely didn’t like it, I think the fumes knocked it out because it curled up and fell to the floor from the wall. Then the next time I checked (because I couldn’t even bring myself to remove it from the floor), it was gone!
Ack!