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6 myths about rats, one of the most widespread creatures on Earth
CBC ^ | 1/13/23 | Jeff Morales

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


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KEYWORDS: canada; ratking; ratkings; rats; rodents; yersiniapestis
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Have a friend and her fridge was ruined by a rat chewing on the fridge cord.

Despicable creatures.

1 posted on 02/07/2025 12:37:59 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

democRats are true vermin.


2 posted on 02/07/2025 12:39:56 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: DallasBiff

Cord couldn’t be replaced?


3 posted on 02/07/2025 12:40:48 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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Cord couldn’t be replaced?

> She said it would cast 600 bucks.

4 posted on 02/07/2025 12:44:56 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DallasBiff

A set of tools to do that would be a lot less.


5 posted on 02/07/2025 12:46:04 PM PST by GingisK
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To: DallasBiff

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.


6 posted on 02/07/2025 12:46:49 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

Crazy. Anyone with a screwdriver ought to be able to do it.


7 posted on 02/07/2025 12:47:18 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: DallasBiff

Thanks to G-d, President Trump, and DOGE, many, many democRATs are scurrying like never before.


8 posted on 02/07/2025 12:48:15 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: Jamestown1630

They make good pet food, if you keep snakes.


9 posted on 02/07/2025 12:48:37 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: DallasBiff

Seems to me that the most widespread pest in the world is the Muslim. With the socialist in a close second place.


10 posted on 02/07/2025 12:48:44 PM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.")
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To: DallasBiff

“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.


11 posted on 02/07/2025 12:50:48 PM PST by kawhill (“My poor friend, you are the absinthe drinker. It is you who have lost your moral faculty.”)
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To: DallasBiff

There are a lot of rats. But it seems like more because they vote more than once.


12 posted on 02/07/2025 12:50:52 PM PST by DannyTN
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13 posted on 02/07/2025 12:54:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: DallasBiff

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.


14 posted on 02/07/2025 12:55:20 PM PST by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: DallasBiff

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.


15 posted on 02/07/2025 12:55:33 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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Rats can grow as big as cats

I guess they've never seen the ones that live in the General Mills grain mills in Buffalo.

16 posted on 02/07/2025 12:56:40 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: DallasBiff

that bites...


17 posted on 02/07/2025 12:57:33 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁 )
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To: metmom

I saw one of those once


18 posted on 02/07/2025 12:59:48 PM PST by combat_boots
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To: DallasBiff; gundog

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.


19 posted on 02/07/2025 1:01:07 PM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Moth balls will drive it out of the attic. Where it goes...? Traps don’t work?


20 posted on 02/07/2025 1:02:40 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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