Posted on 02/07/2025 12:37:59 PM PST by DallasBiff
The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is one of the most ubiquitous and familiar creatures on the planet — but also perhaps one of the least understood.
According to Kaylee Byers, one of the lead researchers with the Vancouver Rat Project, "In some ways, we know more about life on Mars than how rats navigate life on Earth."
"Rats have long been associated with filth, disease and death," said Bobby Corrigan, a world-renowned rodentologist and New York City's unofficial "rat czar."
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Despicable creatures.
democRats are true vermin.
Cord couldn’t be replaced?
> She said it would cast 600 bucks.
A set of tools to do that would be a lot less.
The domesticated Norway rat is one most used in research; and it’s a pet in many areas of the world. They can make nice pets.
Crazy. Anyone with a screwdriver ought to be able to do it.
Thanks to G-d, President Trump, and DOGE, many, many democRATs are scurrying like never before.
They make good pet food, if you keep snakes.
Seems to me that the most widespread pest in the world is the Muslim. With the socialist in a close second place.
“According to Kaylee Byers, one of the lead researchers with the Vancouver Rat Project”. Kaylee how do I get a job at the Vancouver Rat Project? Pack rats here on the farm have cost me money: chewed up wiring harnesses, hoses, belts. I want to learn how I can more effectively exterminate them all.
There are a lot of rats. But it seems like more because they vote more than once.
When I was a Kid I had pets.
Dogs, cats, horses, and Rats.
Even as an adult I have a pet Donkey
and my cows are gentle and loving.
Wild animals you kill,
domesticated pets are just that; pets.
Although I do eat my cows.
They live in filthy places and produce a lot of sebum, so yes, they’re filthy and greasy. Hopefully, I can get rid of the one in my attic, soon.
I guess they've never seen the ones that live in the General Mills grain mills in Buffalo.
that bites...
I saw one of those once
By the time “a cord” is chewed through enough for the current to go off, there was probably an unbelievable amount of peripheral damage. Our grain dryer quit, and when we opened the electric box, it was a chock full nest of trash and destruction that looked like it should have quit years ago.
Moth balls will drive it out of the attic. Where it goes...? Traps don’t work?
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