I don't mind - I was really just relating how people's negligence can spread disease vectors in ways no one sane can counter. Every time I read about one of those "cat ladies" I fear for the health of all of the unsung heroes who have to deal with the cleanup.
Date Palm Tree Rats...all this time I thought those were what everyone called Squirrels. Seriously, they're not the rodents these reports have been about, but I wouldn't put anything past the opportunists passing themselves off as journalists in lower California. One report had a distraught mother having to shake the gnawing rats off of her infant.
NewRomeTacitus wrote: "One report had a distraught mother having to shake the gnawing rats off of her infant."
That's a report I would like to read. In school I read something similar in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair but of course that was a fictional account about rats in a meat processing plant.