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Description: Gertrude knows of some ratcatchers in Varrock. Pay her a visit and she may tell you of their whereabouts. Perhaps they could show you and your cat a few pointers about ratcatching. Enter the subterranean world of the ratcatchers and discover more of your cat's true potential!

Difficulty: Intermediate

Length: Medium

Quest Requirements:
Gertrudes Cat
Icthlarin's Little Helper

Skill/Other Requirements:
A pet kitten/cat (Overgrown cats do NOT work).

Items Needed to Complete Quest: Catspeak amulet or Catspeak amulet(e), Clean kwuarm, Red spiders' eggs, Vial, 4 Cheeses, Bucket of milk, Clean marrentill, Unicorn horn dust, Empty pot, Weeds, Tinderbox, 500 Coins, Shantay pass, and Raw fish if your kitten has not fully grown yet.

Items Recommended for Quest: Ring of charos (a), and teleport methods to Varrock, Ardougne, and Al Kharid.

Items Acquired During Quest: Rat pole, Directions, Book (Ratcatchers), Rat poison, 4 Poisoned cheeses, Cat antipoison, Pot of weeds, Smouldering pot, Snake charm, and a Music scroll.

Quest Points: 2

Reward: 4.5K Thieving XP, Wiley and Lazy cat stages, and access to the Rat Pits.

Start Point: Gertrude's house.

To Start: Have a cat/kitten and talk to Gertrude.

Instructions:

1. Speak to Gertrude at her house, south of the Cooks' Guild. She will tell you about two ladies who apparently know a lot about catching rats.
   
   
   
   
2. Go down the Varrock Sewers and talk to either Grimesquit or Phingspet. They will tell you that your kitten/cat has to catch 8 of the nearby rats. When you have completed your rat chasing task talk to the sisters again and they will give you a Rat pole and tell you to speak to Jimmy Dazzler.
   
   Note: Have the Catspeak amulet or Catspeak amulet(e) unequipped while catching rats because it will go much faster. If you get a message saying that your cat cannot get its prey, give it food, stroke it, or pick it up. Using a Ball of wool with it also helps.
   
   
   
   
3. Make your way to East Ardougne and talk to Jimmy Dazzler at his house northwest of the castle. He will give you some Directions and tell you to follow them to a mansion, where you need to get rid of rats without the guards noticing you. He will also cast a spell on you so that, if seen by the guards, you will be teleported outside of the manor.
   
   
   
   
4. Read the Directions and you will be sent to the mansion. Pick up your kitten/cat and place it in your inventory. Start by sneaking past the gardens with guards to the left or right. You then need to find your way north to the back of the mansion. Once at the back, hide behind the hedges (see the image below). This spot will now function as a save point, if you get caught inside of the mansion. Climb up the trellis and stand as close as possible to one of the potted plants. Equip the Rat pole and sneak into the western bedroom to catch a rat. Now wait until both guards are on the balcony, then make your way to the southeastern bathroom to catch another rat. Once all rats are caught upstairs head down the ladder in the southeastern bathroom. Once you are on the first floor, you will no longer run the risk of getting caught by guards. Catch the last few rats and retrace your steps to the gate or teleport out of the mansion.
   
   Note: If you get caught by the guards, you will be teleported back to the start or the save point and will have to start over. One of the rooms contains 2 rats.
   
   
   
   
5. Return to Jimmy Dazzler. He will give you a Book and ask you to talk to Hooknosed Jack in Varrock.
   
   
6. Hooknosed Jack in the southeaster corner of Varrock, next to the mini-game symbol, needs your help with getting rid of rats at a warehouse. He will make you a bottle of Rat poison if you bring him Clean kwuarm, Red spiders' eggs, and a Vial.
   
   
   
   
7. Head south of Hooknosed Jack to a area with a ladder. Go up the ladder into the warehouse. Use the Rat poison you got from Hooknosed Jack with all of the pieces of Cheese to poison them. Use each 4 Poisoned cheese with a rat hole.
   
   
   
   
8. When you are finished go speak to Hooknosed Jack again. He will tell you that his cat must have eaten one of the poisoned rats and that you will need to speak to the Apothecary to get a cure.
   
   
9. The Apothecary, northwest of the Varrock swordshop, will tell you that he needs a Bucket of milk, Clean marrentill, and Unicorn horn dust to make the Cat antipoison.
   
   
   
   
10. Take the cure back to Hooknosed Jack. He will tell you that one rat has survived and that you will have to kill it. Go back to the warehouse and use your kitten/cat with the hole. The king rat and your kitten/cat will start fighting! You can heal your pet by using food on the hole.
    
    
    
    
11. Once the rat is dead, talk to Hooknosed Jack again. He will open the rat sewers for you and will then send you to Keldagrim.
    
    
12. Head to the eastern part of Keldagrim and speak with Smokin' Joe east of the mining shop. He will ask you to help smoke out the rats in his house. Use the Weeds with the Empty pot to get a Pot of weeds. Light the Pot of weeds with the Tinderbox to produce a Smouldering pot. Now, use the Smouldering pot with the rat hole. It will not work the first time but try it again and your kitten/cat will offer to help you.
    
    
    
    
13. Talk to Smokin' Joe and he will send you to the center of Port Sarim to look for The Face. She tells you to speak to Felkrash down in the pits.
    
    
    
    
14. Go down the manhole and talk to Felkrash. She will tell you to kill all the Port Sarim rats in one stroke.
    
    
    
    
15. Head back up and talk to The Face again. She will tell you a story about charming the rats in Pollnivneach.
    
    
16. Make your way to southern part of Pollnivneach and put 1 Coin in Ali the Snake Charmer's money pot. Ask him about charming other animals and he complain about Felkrash. He will offer some advice to kill the rats for one more coin than you have. Tell him you do not care about his offer and walk away slowly. Click "Stop" and he will give you Snake charm and a Music scroll for 100 Coins.
    
    Note: You can use the Ring of charos (a) to only pay the Snake Charmer 50 instead of 100 Coins.
    
    
    
    
17. Head back to the manhole in Port Sarim, but do not go down inside of it. Play the Snake charm while next to the manhole. Read the Music scroll transfer all the notes from the scroll to the pages of the Snake charm. Each note starting from the left of the Music scroll represents a page on Snake charm. You will note a red symbol above one of the 8 notes. On the page where you select that particular note, you also need to click on the black symbol in upper left corner of the page. Once you are finished copying the notes, play the Snake charm and watch as you drown all the rats.
    
    
    
    
18. Speak with Felkrash to claim your reward. Now you can train Overgrown cats into Wiley cats, and you get to name your Wiley or Lazy cats.
    
    Congratulations! Quest Complete!
    
    

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This Quest Guide was written by halk 5. Thanks to Andro_Girl, Chaosblade77, Scamfighter, ammdc5, doomedfire, diana_de_wit, andro_girl, invghost, ixipaulixi, Bectemir, Im4eversmart, debroby, jacobzcoool, JoshB, Darkcut, Radmite, aseult, Oblivion590, darkalice, hawk_element, magicblade28, Aakanaar, senken2, and Alfawarlord for corrections.
This Quest Guide was entered into the database on Mon, Nov 28, 2005, at 03:25:26 PM by Im4eversmart, and it was last updated on Mon, Dec 07, 2009, at 10:10:54 PM by Scott.

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