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Rat-o-cide plan in the making off Alaska
A plan is underway to wipe out the abundant life of rats on Rat Island, a 6,800-acre island on the western edge of the Aleutian Islands that trail off from Alaska.
It's because the rats have driven away all the birds. Well, not so much driven away as eating their eggs, which is all the incentive the birds needed to stop visiting the rat paradise. The first rats, including the muscular Norway rat, landed on the island in 1780 when a rat-infested Japanese ship ran aground. Since then rats, who are fantastic at making baby rats, have ruled the roost on the island. Thus, its name. Now there are no song birds or sea birds on the island. So there is a multi-pronged attack by state and federal authorities to kill the rats on the island and prevent new ones from arriving. As far as I know, neither PETA nor any other group is rising to defend the noble rat. Why is that? Posted by Steve E. Swenson 7 comments from 6 users
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posted by
palm50
on Dec 3, 2007 at 02:57 PM
Send in King Rat.... Sell them to the French. Taste better than horse meat.
posted by
CurtDalton
on Dec 3, 2007 at 10:19 AM
A better use of tax dollars would be to spread Rat-O-Cide in Washington, DC.
Sure would clean up politics! posted by
koztarr
on Nov 30, 2007 at 08:31 AM
Tell the Sudanese that the rats insulted the prophet...bye bye rats
posted by
dgrealish
on Nov 29, 2007 at 05:58 PM
No one gives a Rat's A$$ about the nasty rat!
posted by
randomfactor
on Nov 29, 2007 at 04:28 PM
Just because they may be nuts don't make 'em crazy. It's cold up there...for another couple decades.
posted by
OldBlue56
on Nov 29, 2007 at 04:20 PM
Maybe because those sexy gals from PETA, who stand at the corner of 18th and Chester every year, wearing almost nothing, don't want to travel to Rat Island to protest.
posted by
randomfactor
on Nov 29, 2007 at 04:16 PM
Just wait a few years. Bet the rising seawater does the job for them.
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