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I don't think that an emoticon exists that can express how hideous I feel this article is!!

California animal rescuers seek homes for 1,000 rats

A California animal shelter is seeking adoptive homes for 1,000 rats rescued from a house they had infested and virtually destroyed.

The rats ran amok in the Los Angeles house of a man said to be receiving mental health treatment, after his daughter brought a pregnant rat home.

"You were standing in crowds of rats," a rescuer told a California newspaper.

Animal rescuers are sorting the rats in a warehouse and will make them available to new homes on 5 December.
Seeking 'rat food'

The rats spread into the area outside the house, leading alarmed neighbours to contact producers of the reality television show Hoarders, that documents people living packed among belongings in filth, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

"He had all these rats reproducing until they had destroyed his entire house," Lauren Paul, an animal rescuer with North Star Rescue, told the newspaper.

"They chewed all the way through the walls. There were cages in the house, but the doors were all open. When you walked into the house, you were standing in crowds of rats. They were all around you."

North Star Rescue has called for donations, such as "healthy cereals to mix with rat food, dried pasta, dried fruits and nuts, dry soy beans, oats, barley, rye and other rat compatible foods", and toys for the rats.

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RATS! I Don't live in California!

I guess these people will even try to find adoptive country for frogs and locust that devastated Egypt during age of exodus...

Many decades ago, I was one of two administrators for city health dept pediatric clinics. My office-mate left to accept another health dept position, in which he was to be responsible for rodent control. We kept in touch for several years and often talked about his job; I don't recollect that he ever hit me up to donate toys for the rats - obviously, Ron was an insensitive, uncaring clod

Fortunately rats have relatively short lives. It seems that it will be very difficult to find homes, that is proper homes with loving owners and appropriately furnished rat habitats, for over a thousand rats. I think a better approach is to raise about $50,000 and have those rats neutered. Surely a generous vet would perform the operations for $50 each and in six months to a year all of the rats would have passed over the rainbow bridge. Problem solved. Does anyone know the address of the bank account to send in my donation?

Jim,

I just asked my veterinarian daughter about your suggestion. There was dead silence on the other end of the phone, followed by a suggestion that it was way too early in the day to be indulging my taste for Drambuie

She did, however, indicate that she's willing to accept your donation, which she'll use to buy scarves and earmuffs for the rats in the northernmost reaches of ME. Apparently their pre-winter clothing drive fell short this year and, given the state of the economy, neither the St Vincent de Paul Society nor the Salvation Army expect that they will be able to make up the shortfall. You can send cash, check, or money order (PayPal accepted) to:

RATS - Rats Affected by Temperature and Snow
c/o Wildlife Credit Union & Food Bank

anyone in Aroostook County can provide the mailing address.

Many years,

Neil

LOL!!! You guys are toooo much!!!

I have a suggestion for the rats.

My partner sent me color pictures of a raid on a Chinese restaurant a few years ago where some of the cooks were caught skinning and de-hairing large rats in the basement. They ended up being orders of General Tso's chicken with steamed rice.

I gagged.

Bob

So you gagged, did you? The situation you vividly described would be enough to gag a maggot.
But seriously: what we have here is an example of aberrant behavior that puts rats (i.e., vermin) on the same level, or even higher) of human beings. I wouldn't be a bit surprized to find out the "animal rescuers" are also supporters of Planned Parenthood.
I wonder how many of them took some of those cuddly, gentle and glamorous "pets" home with them.

What a crazy world.

sielos:

The scary part of the whole set of pictures was that when the order was on the counter it looked like chicken parts. That's what really sent the shivers up and down my spine.

Sorry I was so vivid just before lunch.

Bob

Now that we have finally gotten to a subject close to my heart, food, I have a couple of things to contribute. First, I have a friend who raises rabbits on his little farm in Chiapas Mexico. When they butcher the rabbits to sell to the restaurants they have to leave the heads on because the restaurant owners fear being sold butchered cats.

Second, the Chinese restaurant discussion is an illustration I have used for my students, I am an accounting professor, for years of the concept of Just In Time inventory. What you are observing is a primitive form of JIT in China. In the U.S. we accomplish the same thing by building Chinese restaurants next to veterinary clinics.

Neal, sorry for bringing your daughter into this again.

Jim

Bob,

What are you complaining about? They did de-hair them


Jim,

If you think that I'm calling to see if anyone has built a Chinese restaurant next door to the clinic since I was there last, you've got another think coming

Many years,

Neil

LOL

I guess if you put spicy brown sauce on anything, you can get it past the eyes and into the mouth. The picture did look like a serving of chicken wings with a side of rice.

Bob

My cat just asked me if we could adopt them all........

The Reptile House at my local zoo is interested.