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1,000 rats found in Petaluma home
San Fran Chronicle ^ | 22 June 2006 | Cicero A. Estrella and Peter Fimrite

Posted on 06/23/2006 11:46:19 AM PDT by Marius3188

Petaluma animal control workers expected to find a horde of cats when they knocked on the door of a 67-year-old man whose neighbor complained of stench. Instead, they stumbled onto a scene straight out the movie, "Willard."

About 1,000 pet rats -- ranging from 3-year-old adults to little, pink newborns -- shared the one-room house with Roger Dier.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: California; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: petaluma; rats
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Only the DNC has more rats.
1 posted on 06/23/2006 11:46:22 AM PDT by Marius3188
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That makes me want to puke!


2 posted on 06/23/2006 11:48:06 AM PDT by TopoGigio
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Only the DNC has more rats.

There you go, reading my mind again.

3 posted on 06/23/2006 11:49:14 AM PDT by scooter2
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Having had pet rats myself, I can vouch for them as being great pets. But 1000! Ye Gads!

They are actually more intelligent than dogs, and are very social and playful.


4 posted on 06/23/2006 11:54:18 AM PDT by Madeleine Ward
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This is a serious question, is there a specific name for this kind of mental illness? You hear stories about people with hundreds of cats living in squalor...and this kind of thing. It is a mental illness..


5 posted on 06/23/2006 11:54:21 AM PDT by Hildy ("Whenever someone smiles at me all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life." - Dwight Schrute)
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Must have been filming a "Rats Gone Wild" video.


6 posted on 06/23/2006 11:55:08 AM PDT by dc-zoo
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That makes me want to puke!

Then I guess you don't want to see the pictures?

7 posted on 06/23/2006 11:56:04 AM PDT by steveo (Fathers Against Rude Television: You may already be a member)
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Reminds me of a Billy Badmouth joke.

Rats, Miss Brown! ...


8 posted on 06/23/2006 11:57:21 AM PDT by newgeezer
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I didn't think it was possible to get 1000 democrats in one house.


9 posted on 06/23/2006 11:58:34 AM PDT by newnhdad (All your government branches are belong to us!! not for long if this cr@p keeps up.)
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Sounds like a dem convention.


10 posted on 06/23/2006 11:59:04 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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They make great pets.

11 posted on 06/23/2006 11:59:32 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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Bah! All the guy has got to do is claim he's "Native American" and all these rats are sacred to, and part of, his religion. Why, if he plays his cards right....


12 posted on 06/23/2006 11:59:41 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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I closed my eyes, and when I opened them again the rat was dead and the ratman was slipping the money into his pocket and spitting to clear his mouth.

“That’s what they makes likcerish out of,” he said. “Rat’s blood is what the big factories and the chocolate-people use to make lickerish.”

Again the relish, the wet-lipped, lip-smacking relish as he spoke the words, the throaty richness of his voice and the thick syrupy way he pronounced the word lickerish.

“No,” he said, “There’s nothin wrong with a drop of rat’s blood.”

“Don’t talk so absolutely disgusting,” Claud told him.

“Ah! But that’s it, you see. You eaten it many a time. Penny sticks and lickerish bootlaces is all made from rat’s blood.”

“We don’t want to hear about it, thank you.”

“Boiled up, it is, in great cauldrons, bubblin and steamin and men stirrin it with long poles. That’s one of the big secrets of the chocolate-makin factories, and no one knows about it — no one except the ratters supplyin the stuff.”

— Roald Dahl, The Ratcatcher.


13 posted on 06/23/2006 11:59:57 AM PDT by dighton
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It's called "hoarding."


14 posted on 06/23/2006 12:01:15 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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Ben, Willard come to mind.


15 posted on 06/23/2006 12:02:25 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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This is where you can hear the creepy Michael Jackson sing his ode to a rat:


16 posted on 06/23/2006 12:03:01 PM PDT by JellyJam (Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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He also shared the place with seven cats.

Seems like a war waiting to happen.

17 posted on 06/23/2006 12:06:08 PM PDT by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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18 posted on 06/23/2006 12:14:00 PM PDT by Smogger (It's the WOT Stupid)
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To: Madeleine Ward
They are actually more intelligent than dogs, and are very social and playful.

Yeah... Can they play fetch? Jump in your lap when you come home?

Man, that's just sick.

19 posted on 06/23/2006 12:15:59 PM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: yankeedame
One man's god is another man's lunch.

20 posted on 06/23/2006 12:17:22 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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