aug 19 2022

my head is. consumed with  stories of rats for the moment..... boston is now  #2 in rat problems according to bobby corrigan  who is an urban rodent expert... Philadelphia is #1    with  washington dc #3 and new york #4.  everybody has a reason rats are a problem... with their 20 minute gestation cycle..but a significient problem is their IQ.....they have an  ability to find accomodating food and housing... not terribly unlike humans.

i do wonder how a young couple of  newly wed rats  found thier way. to a penthouse  in nyc... did they study which wires to chew and cross to make the elevator  go  to the 102nd floor????

i did read also that nyc and boston both are "using" exhaust fumes  produced by a special exhaust fume producing machine.. --- so what is the matter with ny AND BOSTON TAXI'S????

i tried that some 20 years ago. with a huge tree in the yard...... that had a rat hole under it.... i assumed the hole went to a networkj of holes underground.... as i had read.... so i backed up my car and ran  my vacuum hose fro the exhaust to the  hole under the .tree and waited..

 i expected to see rats appear in the pasture or around. the gound somewhere... but no...   over head-- some 30 feet in the air were a few very annoyed rats  and a puff of smoke.. eventually. we did cut the tree down and it was indeed hollow.. who would have thought???  

it is my opinion that we stop reading what anyone else think rats like-- like fake plastic cheeze on the traps.... or strange tubes of  "rat attractant" produced for a tidy profit from "garbage"  and set out a buffet of  possibilities... then get them trained to come for. dinner... at which time you can set a snap trap and get them... sort of like las vegas does with humans... then the water gets shut off....

who would ever expect a rat would choose  ridx.  to a dog cookie?  but there is something in many hardware stores that attract rodents of some kind....   my service dogs tell me ... there is somehting in them there shelves besides nuts and bolts.----- maybe it is the glue holding the cardboard together???  spoken by a person who had 2 toyotas "totaled " by parking them in the wrong place.

ah well---- the presence of rat feces does not indicate the presence of rats--- it indicates  where rats have been---- i bet you could "age" i that feces.... and tell how old it was.... or  if it is current... but people don't do that...

re elevators....

Hi - You have made me very aware of making sure of inspections. Cosmo travels in one of two elevators 6 to 8 times a day, he’s a pro! Always sorry about your horrible experience. I am knocking on wood!