San Mateo County Times/Opinion: John Horgan, 2/1/13. "Pacifica's rat lady has honed her special anti-vermin craft."
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"I've even dealt with a few two-legged rats in my time," she notes wryly, mentioning no names in particular. A permanent (deadly) solution is not involved in such human cases, however. But the four-legged version is different; it's firmly in her focused cross-hairs. Tiny Tina and her helpful sons, along with their array of traps and other methods, have eradicated an estimated 14,000 of the annoying rodents through her 27 years, and counting, on the job as, officially, Dirty Rats Rodent Removal. As luck would have it, she also doubles as a real estate agent on the Coastside. As she puts it, "Any house I sell is rat-free." One would hope."
Related article commentary - The John Horgan's article is also posted on The Burlingame Voice, 1/28/14, with additional comments. "Leave it to John Horgan to find a squib on a topic of interest in my neighborhood--and probably yours too. Roof rats are a common nuisance in B'game. The hawk I mentioned a few weeks back has not visited again to my knowledge and I miss him. Here's John's notice of someone who can help. ....I may give them a call, but if anyone else has any e rat ification tips, I'm all ears. Pat Giorni's peanut butter suggestion hasn't yielded any results yet." Yelp/Dirty Rats.
Related rat reference - Wild Rat behavior, "Wild Norway rat behavior." (Norway rats live in California, and after all if their not our variety, they're still rats). "Wild rats live in colonies. Female rats, usually related to each other, live in little groups of one to six in a little burrow system of their own. They each have their own nest chamber, but they may share the burrow and may raise their young together (called communal nesting). When the offspring are weaned, the young males disperse."
Note: photograph from Dying brain cells blog.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
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