A lot of people eat themselves out of house and home. I think it’s a lot smarter to eat myself into one. (But I need to resist the urge to nibble the roof over my head.)
Pests Mice Rats Etc, by British_Pest_Control_Association, licensed under CC BY 2.0
Welcome to the Rat Cave!
Oh god how do you do that Allein!
The technical answer is: Go to google and search for what you want, click on “Images” at the top of the results page, click on the image you want, then click “View Image” and it’ll open the image in a new tab and you can copy the url from there. If it ends with .jpg or .png or .gif (for animated gifs) you can just paste it into the comment box and it should embed the image. Alternatively, you can get an image link from any page by right-clicking on the image and choosing “copy image address” (in Chrome, at least; not sure about other browsers).
Like so:
If you’re wanting to know how I find them, well, I’m willing to google just about anything. 😉
Hahahahaha. I meant you always find the perfect picture!
Thank you. I was hoping someone would be able to do this!
I aim to please.
Seems odd that the British Pest Control Association would produce such a beautiful portrait of a rat.
Eeeeeeekkk! I am not afraid of rats nor bread but the image of one emerging from the other just gives me the heebie-jeebies! I just finished reading about the 1349+ Bubonic plague outbreak where fifty percent of the Europe’s population died from the plague itself or starvation directly caused by the plague deaths.
The plague was cause by the flees on he rats not by the rats themselves, they were just transportation. But isn’t it is scary to know that there are still documented cases of Bubonic plague every year. ::shudder::
Yes! Gigi, didn’t some kids get infected from squirrels or groundhogs, some cute rodent which were carrying plague fleas at campground a couple years back? I am pretty sure though it can be treated with antibiotics these days but can you imagine– some towns lost 80% of the population– the toll on mental health, ‘life, world’ perspective. It must have been like the end of the world.
What were you reading?
The Ian Mortimer, Millennium book– the 14th century chapter. I like the book as he encapsulates the major influences, events that affected the biggest changes.
My library has that; I’m going to get it when I’m done with the books I have out.
I was thinking of The Great Mortality by John Kelly.
I highly recommend the book Year Of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks. About 100 pages of crystalline prose of fictionalization about one small English village during the plague.
Added to my list. 😉
Read it!!! and heartily agree Faye! 🙂 🙂
That book haunts me. It comes to mind all the time.
I read a book on the 1915 Flu epidemic that had a similar effect on me – it was a great book, but I finally had to give it away because every time I went back to it, I had such vivid dreams that I was living in that era.
Cute! I remember the St. Louis Children’s Zoo used to have a breadcave of mice… I don’t remember seeing them out of the bread, though.
Just watered the tropicals on my front deck and a disgruntled mousie crawled out of one
and into another with more foliage to stay dry. After watering, I looked into that plant and saw two mousies, one about half the size of the other. Really cute, and, not at all intimidated by the lady with the garden hose!
Rats have a bad rep for carrying diseases. A pet rat was more than likely born and raised in captivity, and were not exposed to diseases or fleas carrying diseases. My daughter had a pet rat, who was the sweetest pet ever. Someone actually called CPS on me for having a baby and a pet rat. CPS workers made me put the rat cage in a room the baby couldn’t go into, and made weekly visits until the rat died. They showed up, said, “where’s the rat?” I told them he died, they said, “Okay, this is going to be our last visit” and I never heard from them again. When they showed up, and the baby (she was 18 mos at the time) woke up from her nap, one of them said, “The baby is neat and clean.” I said, “Of course she is, why wouldn’t she be?” Reply, “Well you have a pet rat…”
Oh my goodness! That is probably one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard! I wouldn’t personally pick a pet rat (those naked tails give me the heebiejeebies), but that just seems crazy for someone and CPS to make such a big deal out of it. Weekly visits?! What a waste of everyone’s time.
That has to be one of the most ignorant things I’ve ever heard!
Wow, that’s up there with the urban legend about “You can’t have a cat because it will steal the baby’s breath.”
I can hope that at least the CPS workers learned something from the experience, so they could be more appropriate with future families.
Yea, visit TWICE a week to figure out how she’s covering things up!
That is a mouse, not a rat.
Rats can be very good pets–sadly, they just don’t live very long. They are quite smart and can be trained to do many things.
I had pet mice for a bit. Cutest and cleanest elegant pets.