Monday, May 02, 2005

rattus

rattus

I am from Alberta. There are no rats there at all: the government of Alberta spends something like 5 million dollars a year on the "Rat Patrol", basically guys who roam the borders killing rats. Given that, it is perhaps not surprising that I have never seen a rat in all my 36 years on this planet.

That is, I had never seen a rat until yesterday. I am presently in Florida, and the cat in the place where I am staying caught a big male rat yesterday. We took a picture of the thing; I just had to post it here so that the people back home could see what a rat looks like.

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