My Furry Friends at Work

[HEMI®Dart]

They would be easy to kill, but I just couldn't.



They always run from you. Never aggressive.



They are Norway Rats. They supposedely harbor disease, these are not like the Black rat, which are rumored to carry bubonic plage (Black Death) but none of my co-workers have ever gotten sick. Salmonella is a real possibility, but if you just wash your hands, you'll be OK.

 

[MMeier]

A rat is a rat... is a rat... is a rat!! Never heard of a good one! Where do you work? Maybe if you cleaned up a bit, they would go elsewhere.

 

[PToombs]

If you get one cornered, it might jump and try to bite. If it has a way out, it will run most of the time. Most wild animals are like that.

 

[WDaniels]

A rat is a rat... is a rat... is a rat!!

You dirty rat..... (said like the late James Cagney)



There you go Mark. Top that.

WD

 

[dsherman]

Rats make cool pets and food for my Boas!!!!

 

[HEMI®Dart]

A rat is a rat... is a rat... is a rat!! Never heard of a good one! Where do you work? Maybe if you cleaned up a bit, they would go elsewhere.

Impossible to clean up. Too good a food source. I work at the Mid-Connecticut project. A trash-to-energy facility. 63 towns dump their trash here. I love working there.



MDC - The Environment

 

[ekroman]

They're doing what comes naturally. They follow humans around, because we produce a lot of trash. Human's garbage is food for a lot of critters.



BTW, there's probably hundreds, if not thousands more of them you haven't seen yet.



Two years ago, the house up the street was foreclosed due to the "immigrants" not making their mortgage payment. Didn't take out the trash, either; it was piled high in the garage, about 100 plastic trash bags. Then it was moved to the driveway, and two weeks later, I got a rat's nest under my deck.



I flooded their tunnels with the garden hose. They would pop up out of the holes, and I would whack at them with the GI shovel I've had laying around for years. It was a real, live version of Whack-A-Mole, except it was Whack-A-Rat.



I killed them all. Felt a little guilty when I nailed the first one with a shovel. After that, it was kind of fun.



Eddie

 

[nickleinonen]

i've got the winged variety at work. they've pit out poisoned corn kernals on the roof to get them but it doesn't seem to work. they flock to the yard as every grain car that comes through always leaks some corn or other grain. .

 

[The patriot]

The people around the corner from me are pretty good junk collectors.

When they built a house in the so called empty lot next to them we had some mice try to move in.

I dont like mice.

I dont like rats.

I dont like snakes.

They must all die!

We have a garbage dump about 2 miles from me. Plenty rats can be seen crossing the highway after a good rain.

 

[evldsl]

Rat urine + cut = kidney failure.

 

[hammersley]

Didn't you see....Ratatouille

great movie..... and they are cute... .



Ratatouille Movie - Official Disney DVD Website

 

[HEMI®Dart]

Rat urine + cut = kidney failure.

This is all I can find on the web:



Rats urine is not going to be contaminated with any pathogens that can make you or any animal sick so dont worry.