Did you know that when the Bubonic Plague struck London in 1665, the powers that be thought dogs & cats were the cause? These animals were then ordered killed throughout the city. The true carrier of plague was the fleas carried by rats throughout London. With particularly the cats gone, there were no predators to keep the rats and their deadly fleas in check.
It is believed that 100,000 Londoners died, or 20% of the inhabitants.
Moral of the story ~ keep a cat or two at your home.
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Of course, you have two cats, and yet the rat in the carport lives on...give those beasts an ultimatum--start carrying their own weight, or join their English brothers and sisters in the afterworld.
We don't keep the cats in the carport closet... and we don't have rats in the house where the cats generally are kept. :)
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