About a week ago our Scotty was barking at the back door.
She does this all the time, but for some reason this time we looked to see what
she was barking at. It was A RAT! It darted from the fence to the space beneath
the deck. We let the dogs out. While they investigated the deck from the north,
the intruder fled south and was gone. We haven’t seen him since, but I’m still
freaked out. There’s no such thing as one rat. A pair can produce 2,000
offspring in a year. They can tread water for three days. They can survive
being flushed, and can even enter your home through the toilet. They carry up
to 60 different communicable diseases including hantavirus, typhus and
meningitis. They can chew through electrical wires, cinder block, even lead pipes. So
the next time I see a rat, it could be in my pantry, bathroom, or bed. Eek!
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