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Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GLURG AAAAAACKKKKKKKKKKK EEEEEEEEEE AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!
Don't DO that! I need warnings on rodent posts! GAH! Here I thought it was going to be the song. It's not fair to expect Petula Clark and get rats!
I am not opening this. I fear a scene of a rat-maimed human, or at least humans defiled by rats. Nope. . .no way this gets clicked on. I know how you people are.
I wouldn't post anything gruesome, danf... it's just a very sociable rat. :)
But, err, sorry for the freakout, MGL! (Well, mostly sorry... heehee) I do love Petula Clark, though, if that makes you feel any better. It probably doesn't.
Actually, Miko, rats are very clean. They bathe themselves almost as much as cats do. Anyway. Must be a NYC rat because that thing is HUGE. It's at least a third again as big as my biggest rat was.
We like to watch for rats from our back deck when outside smoking at night or when we're coming home from the bar. There's also train mice in some of the subway stations here. They were my inspiration for getting our mice earlier this year.
We have outside rats, too. In the winter they raid the bird feeders. One bird feeder is right outside the family room window and makes for great entertainment for the cats and dog. And we noticed this summer, but not previously, they're into the fruit trees stealing apples.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
