How cute. CHOMP. My Hand! My hand!
1,000 rats found in Petaluma home — Warning to out-of-state rubes. Sonoma county is flled with people like this.
Petaluma animal control workers expected to find a horde of cats when they knocked on the door of a 67-year-old man whose neighbor complained of stench. Instead, they stumbled onto a scene straight out the movie, “Willard.”
About 1,000 pet rats — ranging from 3-year-old adults to little, pink newborns — shared the one-room house with Roger Dier.
Dier kept nearly all of his small furry friends in about 20 huge cages that he lined up around the room. About 20 of his rats were running around loose, said Nancee Tavares, Petaluma Animal Services manager.
He also shared the place with seven cats.
2000 rats and 7 cats. Those are the kinds of odds i like!
That’s what extreme loneliness does to people. And our societies thrive on separating people from one another…
People are separating themselves more because we’re become more egocentric. Relationships and communities involve compromises and work. If you want things your way, all the time, you will be by yourself. This poor guy is probably suffering from an emotional problem like OCD.
What are you talking about JimJammer? It was only 1000 rats, not 2000.
2000 rats would be insane….but this guy only had 1000, which I can perfectly understand. But the 7 cats….well….that’s just koo-koo
Hey how far is this from Leo’s house?
Extremes in isolation tend to breed aberrant behavior.
On the whole, I tend to think this had more to do with the guy likely being mentally ill than the fact that people are no longer buddy-buddy with the neighbors.
Certainly people don’t look out for one another like they ought to. I have a neighbor who very rarely leaves his house whom I believe has some kind of disability, and I find occasion to make sure he turns his lights on and off once in a while.
On the other hand, there’s absolutely no reason why people should have to be friends with someone just because they live on the same block or work at the same job. I think part of the problem is that people still have that expectation, whereas in practice, people aren’t cut out to be friends with everybody just because.
Was still shocked to think how many people wind up friendless, because that would be completely intolerable to me. In the worst case, the dude should have been able to go to the library, google “rats, hording” and met someone he could have talked to once in a while.
This is twice, now — I double-checked my post to make sure I enclosed the url and title in quotes. And, of course, I missed something just the same.
Sorry! I just love things like this because nothing makes me feel more like a complete bone-head.
[editor — I fixed it, Max — I think]
This wasn’t Leo Laporte’s house was it? 🙂
In my experience as a library employee, he probably *does* go to the library to use the Internet to google “rat hording”. Maybe it was an employee who lived near the guy who ratted him out.
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Sorry, couldn’t stop myself that time….
So: are the rats just cat food?
Have they checked the US capital?
there is at least 435 + 100 more there
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I think the ‘rats’ in the capitol are a much more disgusting type of vermin. Rats are much more honest. Please don’t insult the rats.
-sorry couldn’t help myself.
I thought Patrick told Leo those pet rats were a bad ideal.