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rat saga con't
Jun. 2nd, 2014 08:00 pmthe health department came over today, I invited them. I am well meaning and naive, and Al was torn between thinking it would be fine and thinking I was walking into a legal and financial trap. They liked the start, wanted us to call an actual exterminator, and happily played hard-ass/easy-going or carrot and stick. There was a lot of carrotage, and only the waving of the stick, saying we clearly seemed like we were headed the right way, keep on going, stop and kill them. Close out places they can breed and sleep and eat. Al wants Maddy to see that her territory is still infested, they have a vested interest in making sure we keep pushing the modifications along. I desperately do NOT want to point fingers at anyone because they have been pointed at me recently in a very shrieky fashion and it is very bad. My heart pounds, my blood pressure spikes, and I get very defensive and very rattled. Even Maddy is oddly reticent about how she's doing and what the next plans are. I had thought she was going to show the health board dude around, but she basically lawyered at him in a very deflective way, said she was dubious about the other dude's claims regarding the persistence of poisons in rats and the effects on predators (any one know about anti-coagulent effcts second-hand, do tell!) and saying she'd seen fewer rats. She's been trapping more than I have, and more effectively, and killing more doing other things like with the gun.
Al is worried about lawsuits, and claims and being sued, and liability. I want the shrieking to stop, and the rats to be done and not visible, and no one pointing their fingers at me and blaming me. And no yelling. Kate said it was sad that the rats at our house are not the rats of NIMH, and I said yes, because if they were I would give them electricity, and help them use my ipod, and maybe donate my smartphone so they could surf the web, and I would even print out books and things for them in teeny tiny print so they could read in the evenings. And they would trust me, and together we could rule the world. They would keep the other rats out of Joan's freaking yard, and keep the squirrel populations down. Maddy might have to donate an egg or two a day to help keep them fed, or I could do that because they would be MY friends. I think rats would do well on the internet. They'd want a faster connection sooner or later, although my phone can connect to the house wifi, it is getting kind of old and slowing down. I'd happily donate some of the strings of battery driven LED strings of fairy lights for using in their tunnels and rooms. I wonder if we could garden together? I can plant stuff, but I'm bad at weeding and bad at maintenance. If they wanted to help weed, they could use a corner of the open ground to palnt some cereal crops, and they could definitely have the raspberries and blueberries I planted and don't look after. Maybe I should plant rugosa roses so they can have the hips, for vitamin C and flavor. I wonder if sailing rats got scurvy?
Al is worried about lawsuits, and claims and being sued, and liability. I want the shrieking to stop, and the rats to be done and not visible, and no one pointing their fingers at me and blaming me. And no yelling. Kate said it was sad that the rats at our house are not the rats of NIMH, and I said yes, because if they were I would give them electricity, and help them use my ipod, and maybe donate my smartphone so they could surf the web, and I would even print out books and things for them in teeny tiny print so they could read in the evenings. And they would trust me, and together we could rule the world. They would keep the other rats out of Joan's freaking yard, and keep the squirrel populations down. Maddy might have to donate an egg or two a day to help keep them fed, or I could do that because they would be MY friends. I think rats would do well on the internet. They'd want a faster connection sooner or later, although my phone can connect to the house wifi, it is getting kind of old and slowing down. I'd happily donate some of the strings of battery driven LED strings of fairy lights for using in their tunnels and rooms. I wonder if we could garden together? I can plant stuff, but I'm bad at weeding and bad at maintenance. If they wanted to help weed, they could use a corner of the open ground to palnt some cereal crops, and they could definitely have the raspberries and blueberries I planted and don't look after. Maybe I should plant rugosa roses so they can have the hips, for vitamin C and flavor. I wonder if sailing rats got scurvy?