Trivia goodness

[weaktwos]

In New York City, rats bite about 311 people in an average year. However, 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers.

Also, some research indicates that the rat population is 12 times that of the New Yorker population.

dangermouse74, and lordrexfear...any bite stories you care to share with us?

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[brittadotcom.livejournal.com]

This reminded me of my field mouse story...not a rat, and no biting involved, but can I share?

My roommate had found a baby field mouse stuck in a garbage can by his work, so he put it in a shoebox and brought it home. Cutest thing, ears larger than its body, tail five miles long. My cat was sitting in her preferred vantage spot at the end of the hallway in the doorway to my room. Of course, as he opened the box in his bathroom to show me, the mouse bounded out, into the hallway, under the couch in the living room. We found where it was, then started the tag-team effort of him at the end of the couch with the box, with me on the side with my yardstick gently trying to shove the mouse in his direction. Well, the mouse decided instead to run up the yardstick, up my arm, up my face, launching itself off my nose and forehead...directly down the hallway right into the mouth of my amazed cat! She was so shocked that she just took it under my bed, so we were able to get it away from her safely, back into the box. We felt so bad that when we bought the mouse's cage at the pet store we bought my cat a fur mouse toy the exact size and color...she wasn't fooled... :)

We caught a wild tarantula in the SoCal desert one year and brought it back for a pet...I wonder how poisonous that was? It never bit any of us, thank goodness, and we never used gloves...had to buy live crickets for 5-cents each to feed it...ah, memories... ;)

[namfle.livejournal.com]

Ok, the image of that little field mouse pulling a matrix stunt and Jackie Chan-leaping off of your face? Hilarious. I was totally broken by it. :D

-elf-