Re: World Rat Day

Dawn Flood wrote:
> On 4/3/2026 11:23 PM, David Dalton wrote:
>> April 4 is World Rat Day.
>>
>> That is significant to me since Rat is a SSOSOSS (species someone
>> of other species of significant sign) to me, so is a minor 
>> deity to me.
>> I received a sign from Rat early in the Year of the Rat in 1996
>> as described on https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/rat.html . In
>> case you don’t want to click on that, here is the relevant 
>> paragraph:
>>
>> "Early in the Chinese year, in the Year of the Rat, when I, my 
>> sister Anne
>> and her two daughters were travelling west from St. John's to 
>> Lakeview
>> along the Conception Bay Highway, a large rat raced Olympic 
>> fashion
>> rapidly to the edge of the road and made a flying leap to hit 
>> our car. We
>> backed up to find it was dead and I dragged it off the road, 
>> and later
>> thought that it had committed self-sacrifice and would be 
>> reincarnated i
>> n higher form after hitting the `car of ma.’ “
>>
>> Anyway, I plan to next try a mystic attempt beginning in the early
>> evening of April 4 and leading up to Easter Sunday morning,
>> and will report progress on alt.religion.druid .
>>
> 
> In my opinion, the fact that we humans and rats share a recent 
> common ancestor makes them special!  Still, I cannot & will not 
> tolerate one living in my home!!  I would do my best to capture 
> it humanely & safely, and then, it needs to go live out in the 
> countryside far away from other homes!
> 
> Dawn

what kind of traps have you used? i think there is only 1 humane 
trap and it can be overpowered by the rat.