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

Requirements: Must have completed Gertrude's Cat
and Icthlarin's Little Helper
A pet kitten/cat

Items Needed: Catspeak amulet, Kwuarm, Red spiders eggs, Vial, 4 Cheese, Pot, Weeds, Tinderbox, Bucket of milk, Marrentill, Ground unicorn horn, 2k coins, and food for your Kitten if it is not fully grown yet. Suggested Items: Teleports to Varrock, Ardougne, and Al Kharid

Quest Points Reward: 2

Reward: 4.5k Thieving Xp, Access to the Rat Pits, and having unlocked Wiley and Lazy cats.

Start Point: Gertrude's House

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

Instructions:

1. Talk to Gertrude (She can be foundit west of Varrock in the small house near the bank). She will tell you about two ladies who apparently know a lot about catching rats.
   
   
2. Go to the Varrock sewers and talk to Grimesquit. She will tell you that your kitten/cat has to catch 8 rats. (NOTE: Overgrown cats do NOT work! Have your catspeak amulet off while you are doing this, 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 works.
   
   
   
   
3. When you have completed your rat chasing task talk to the sisters again and they will give you a rat pole.
   
   
   
   
4. The sisters will send you to Ardougne to look for Jimmy Dazzler. He is in a house west of the bar Lucien is in.
   
   
   
   
5. He will give you a map and say you should follow it to a mansion to get rid of some rats in it. The only thing is that you must catch the rats which live there without being seen. He will cast a spell on you so that, if seen by the guards, you will be teleported outside the manor.
   
   
6. Read the directions Jimmy gave you and you will be sent to the mansion.
   
   
   
   
7. Your job is to catch all the rats inside the house, so this what you need to do. First pick up your kitten/cat/overgrown cat and place it in your inventory. When you enter the mansion dont let the guards see you or you will be teleported back outside.
   
   
   
   
8. Start by sneaking past the guards to the left, then go north all the way and finally east to a trellis. Be careful not to be seen by the guards. Climb up the trellis and equip your rat pole. You are now upstairs. Go to the east bathrooms and then wait there until the 2 guards are outside again. Now go to the other room and catch all the rats inside, climb down, and then catch the rest of them. When catching rats at the mansion, two of the rooms have TWO rats which must be caught.
   
   
9. When you have all the rats captured, you will have to escape from the house without the guards spotting you. Retrace your steps back to the trellis or teleport out of the house.
   
   
10. Go back to Jimmy and he will give you a book and ask you to talk to Hooknose Jack.
    
    
11. Go speak to Jack, who is in the southeast corner of Varrock near the start to the Family Crest quest. He wants Kwuarm, Red spider eggs, and an empty vial to make rat poison and he needs cheese for bait.
    
    
    
    
12. Now go south of Jack to a area with a ladder. Go up the ladder into the warehouse above. Use the potion you got from Jack with all of the pieces of cheese and then put them inside the rat holes. When you are finished go speak to Jack again.
    
    
13. He will tell you that you poisoned his cat and that you will need to speak to the Apothecary (located in southwest Varrock). The Apothecary will tell you that he needs a bucket of milk, a Ground unicorn horn, and a Marrentill to make the cure.
    
    
14. Next, bring the cure back to 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/overgrown cat with the hole. The king rat and your kitten/cat/overgrown cat will start fighting! You can heal it by using food on the hole. If you want to run away, just climb down ladder and you will save your cat.
    
    
15. Once the rat is dead, go talk to Jack again. He will open the rat sewers for you and will then send you to Keldagrim.
    
    
16. Talk to Smokin Joe, he is east of the mining shop. He will ask you to help smoke out the rats in his house.
    
    
    
    
17. Use your weeds with the pot and then light it and use it with the rat hole. It will not work the first time but try it again and your cat will help you.
    
    
18. Talk to Smokin Joe and he will send you to Port Sarim to look for The Face.
    
    
    
    
19. She tells you to speak to Felkrash down in the pits. Talk to Felkrash and she will tell you to kill all the rats in one stroke.
    
    
20. Go back and talk to The Face. She will tell you a story about charming the rats. Head over to Pollnivneach and talk to the snake charmer.
    
    
    
    
21. Offer the snake charmer money, and he will ask for 1gp more than you have. Refuse to pay it and walk away slowly. Click Stop and he will accept 100gp and give you a tune to play.
    
    Note: You can use the Ring of Charos (a) to only pay the Snake Charmer 50GP, instead of 100
    
    
22. Now go back to Port Sarim. Play the snake charm near the manhole. On the snake charm there are 8 notes and 8 pages. Select the right note for each page. 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 making it red. Once finished copying the notes onto it, play the snake charm and watch as you drown all the rats.
    
    
23. Finally, go back to Felkrash for your quest reward. Now you can train Overgrown cats into Wiley cats, and you get to name your Wiley or Lazy cats.
    
    Congratulations! Quest Complete!