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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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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

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: 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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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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To: DallasBiff
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: 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: DallasBiff
Have a friend and her fridge was ruined by a rat chewing on the fridge cord.

Around here most of the serious damage is caused from rats chewing holes in PEX plumbing tubes in walls, ceilings, and floors that they come across. But I grew up with horses, cows, chickens and other farm animals and we had a constant battle trying to keep them from getting into and spoiling feed.

From the article, “If anyone ever brings me a two-pound Norway rat, I will write them a cheque for $500,” he said. “It's never gonna happen!”

I grew up next to a city with a port and across the street from the city dump. The land that the dump was located on was taken from my family by eminent domain. Growing up I saw some huge rats... But my dad won the “booby prize” at a home builders association event. Whoever won the rat was supposed to take care of it for 3 months until the next quarterly get-together.

I was the one who was told to take care of the rat. He was a massive brown rat. He easily weighed at least two pounds. He as big as our cat. He was tame, but easily upset by loud noises and people he didn't recognize. He had led a life that I would characterize as being sad and neglected. He came in a large cage; he had received very little attention and ate pretty much whatever was put in his food bowl and drank water out of a watering device that was attached to the side of his cage.

While I was taking care of him, I let him wander around my room and let him sit on my lap. I bought him some toys meant for Guinee pigs, hamsters, and other rodents. After three months we had built a relationship. I felt bad letting him go. He was an easy pet to take care of and was always excited to see me.

I know that they can be a nuisance, and that their populations must be controlled. But as pets they tend to be low maintenance and do have some redeeming qualities.

36 posted on 02/07/2025 1:39:03 PM PST by fireman15
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To: DallasBiff

I had trouble with a hoarder-neighbor’s collection drawing rodents and other vermin. One car had the seatbelts chewed through and another had the wiring harness eaten.

I put cotton balls soaked with pure peppermint oil in several strategic places in the trunk, passenger compartment and under the hood of my vehicles and never had another problem.

Mint irritates rodents and they avoid it.


37 posted on 02/07/2025 1:42:59 PM PST by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: DallasBiff

hey


42 posted on 02/07/2025 2:37:31 PM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: DallasBiff
"Rats have long been associated with filth, disease and death," said Bobby Corrigan

Bobby left out "illegal voting".

44 posted on 02/07/2025 2:40:32 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Kamala defines herself in just 4 words..."Nothing comes to mind.")
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To: DallasBiff

When I bought my house I wondered why certain lights would not work. I found a rat had bit into the power cable and electrocuted himself. The breaker tripped and saved the house.


46 posted on 02/07/2025 3:23:43 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: DallasBiff
NOT a myth...they love pizza..


48 posted on 02/07/2025 3:58:55 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: DallasBiff

The city here provided “rat resistant” trash barrels to residents about 3 years ago - at tax payer expense.” They helped yet, almost all I have seen have been chewed thru.


68 posted on 02/07/2025 8:00:09 PM PST by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: DallasBiff
Have a friend and her fridge was ruined by a rat chewing on the fridge cord.

That kind of thinking has earned my son a ton of money. You would not believe how prevalent that kind of thinking is. My son is laughing all the way to the bank.
70 posted on 02/08/2025 5:20:58 AM PST by jy8z (Hell is empty. All the devils are here.)
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