What I want to know, that I've yet to see covered in any of the monkeypox articles - why, on God's green earth, are we importing rats into the country?!
Everyone's concerned about the prairie dogs. But everything I read says they were infected by a Gambian Giant Rat. (Thank goodness I never crossed paths with one of those while I was in the Gambia.)
Rats are ick. Giant rats are super-ick. And last I checked, our rat population was doing just fine, thank you, without reinforcements from other countries.
Posted by Shokufeh at June 17, 2003 02:19 PMYou know, Shokufeh, I think of you every time I see a rat. Which, thankfully, isn't that often. Mainly only when I'm in New Orleans. Did Emily ever tell you her NYC rat story?
Posted by: Julia at June 17, 2003 06:23 PMI've been living relatively rat free the past few years, thank goodness. Except for the time when I was taking Lacey to the airport, driving on LSD when a rat ran across the road, causing me to swerve because I didn't want its death on my hands. Good thing it was way early on a weekend morning, or I might have had Lacey's death on my hands.
I would like to hear Emily's story.