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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

Speaking of rats the size of cats, I notice big ones in my chicken pen
but I have no idea how to get them out without endangering the
chickens & ducks.  Poison or rat traps wouldn't work.

~mIEKAL

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Jim Fruth <jimfruth@charter.net> wrote:
>    When I lived in Central California, I used to visit a friend who lived
> in a palace of a house in the swankiest area of town.  In the evening, when
> we sat by the pool, we could watch rats, rats almost as big as cats, move
> from one house to another across the telephone cable from pole to pole.  The
> rats made forays into yards to raid fruit, and whatever, in the various
> yards.  During the day, they lived in the tangle of ivy that lined every
> privacy fence.
>
> Jim Fruth