This is a different post for me. Not so much a bitch, but an apology.
Last night I discovered a rat in my apartment. Using my cunning hunting skills I baited him with some sugar and trapped the lil prick in a laundry basket. I quickly ran outside to my balcony and hurled the fucking rodent over the rail.
I’m sorry to the guy walking in the entrance to quinpool centre off Monastery Ln. I can only imagine what it would be like to be walking the streets of Halifax when a rat falls from the sky and misses your head by inches.
I didnt see you there and I’m sorry.
PS: Deep down I wish it would of hit you for the sake of a good laugh.
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I’m sorry that you’re sorry you punted the rat off your balcony…but jeezus, that was the best tihng I’ve read all day. 🙂
Of course by “tihng”, I absolutely meant “thing”.
Best. Bitch. Ever.
What a great image… thanks, Redman – it was getting pretty intense around here.
I think that this just made my day.
I want to hear from the other guy, before I know how hard to laugh.
To have been a fly on that rat’s ass….
Wouldn’t mind hearing from that guy too
Um, doesn’t anyone else think that this was cruel?
Nope. Just hilarious.
Do people keep rats as pets? This was a white rat which was very……clean.
I have yet to see a wild rat that’s clean and white. What do YOU think?
A white rat? Probably a pet then.
Wild rat – white and clean – sure it wasn’t Asslee MacIsaac?
Ashley McIsaac is the furthest thing from clean. White and rat-like, sure.
It has been confirmed. It was my neighbors pet rat. There was a note on my door a week later. Is it bad for me to feel absolutely no guilt???
“domesticated rats are sociable, intelligent animals and can be trained to use a litter box, come when called, and perform a variety of tricks. Pet rats behave differently than their wild relatives depending on how many generations they have been removed, and, when acquired from reliable sources, they do not pose any more health risk than other, more common pets.”and yeah, redman, you’re a fucking cruel asshole for tossing the animal off your balcony, to its painful death, when you could’ve simply trapped and put it outside. although, if it was your neighbour’s pet rat, as you say, then you’d have to be pretty fucking stunned not to realize that… they LOOK totally different than your average ‘gutter rat.’ no matter, you’re still a cruel SOB!
Techcafe – I think any reasonable person, upon seeing a rat in their home, automatically thinks “pest”, not “pet”.And I’m sorry, but “domesticated pedigree”??? Give me a break.
Well, now we know there is a white, formerly domestic, rat out there running wild, probably invading someone’s home as we speak or making white rat babies with some gutter rat that will go on to invade other homes. Now we can never be sure that a white coat means “domestic” so we will all have to toss first and check for pedigree later.
@jennie – your point is well taken, and after reading this thread, just maybe some people will have been enlightened to the fact that there are discernible differences b/w wild and domesticated rats.i mean, would a wild rat have actually jumped up on the OP’s bed, with him on it, no less? think about it, that’s the kind of behaviour exhibited by a domesticated breed. a wild rat’s natural instinct is to stay the fuck away from humans. i guess not everyone is aware fo that.
techcafe, your knowledge of the rat world is truly astounding you rat-fucker
techcafe: You are a fucking idiot. I don’t care if a rat can be trained to shit in a box. And I didn’t toss it off to it’s death, it ran away….unfortunately. The fact is, a fuckin rat appeared in my apartment out of nowhere, jumped on my bed and shit. I could’ve smashed him with the baseball bat that was in my hand, but that would’ve made a mess on my carpet. Having no idea it was my neighbors pet, I just wanted it out of my apartment. Would you go door to door asking people if they lost a rat? Or would you just wanna get rid of it. A white rat is still a rat, and if people want to keep it as a pet, then keep it in a cage.
Redman, keeping in mind that techcafe considers a rat to be an intelligent animal, well, need I say more?
hey redman, i was just quoting a wiki article on pet rats, apparently they are more intelligent and sociable than people think, and CLEAN. i also know people who’ve had pet rats, they’re almost the same as guinea pigs, except smarter.and i still think you were cruel for tossing a LIVE animal off your balcony.
I don’t think Redman was all that cruel there Tech. A guy finds a rat in his apartment, catches it and tosses it outside, like you would a spider or something. Other than the white coat there was no reason to expect it was a pet if it’s running around in your apartment, and if you don’t have much experience with rats you might know recognize that the white coat is typical of pet rats. As Redman pointed out, tossing it was actually the more humane response, rather than bashing it with a bat. If I thought I just caught a wild rat in my apartment I would probably kill it and rush to the store to buy traps and inform my landlord of the problem. I don’t see anything cruel about killing a rat (unless you torture it or something) and since the rat lived, no harm done except to the neighbours who are out a pet that they should have kept a closer eye on.
@Miles – ah well, i don’t believe in harming animals (or tossing them off balconies), so i would’ve handled the situation differently. i mean, why panic and start throwing things? and you’d *think* that the rat’s WHITE coat would’ve been a CLUE as to its DOMESTICATED pedigree.
Well cafetech, one things for sure, these guiney pigs and rats you speak so highly of, are a whole lot more intelligent and sociable than you are.