Re: World Rat Day

Dawn Flood wrote:
> On 4/5/2026 9:46 AM, jojo wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> 
> I don't have any; no issues so far!  (Knock on wood.)  I had a 
> coworker who trapped one in his home and transported it out to 
> the country safely.

well we can afford that since we have the cure for plague.