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Friday, December 21, 2007
3:28:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Here's a story for you: shop owners in NYC are letting cats walk freely in their stores, not because they're just so darn cuddly, but to kill all the rats -- rats being a real problem in NYC these days. Health inspectors are apparently not keen on this, but the store owners quite logically figure that customers are going to be less offended by a cat on the job than by a rat scampering over their shoes in the produce aisle.
I would agree with that myself, being the owner of working cats. They are cute and cuddly and they also keep our house from being overrun by field mice in the winter. Likewise, unlike the rats, I'm pretty sure the cats that work the stores will not be spending a lot of time in most foodstuffs I would want to purchase. So yes, one more vote for the cats.
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3:28:00 PM EST
Hearing Nothing at the moment
Rat Dispatch in Aisle Five
Here's a story for you: shop owners in NYC are letting cats walk freely in their stores, not because they're just so darn cuddly, but to kill all the rats -- rats being a real problem in NYC these days. Health inspectors are apparently not keen on this, but the store owners quite logically figure that customers are going to be less offended by a cat on the job than by a rat scampering over their shoes in the produce aisle.
I would agree with that myself, being the owner of working cats. They are cute and cuddly and they also keep our house from being overrun by field mice in the winter. Likewise, unlike the rats, I'm pretty sure the cats that work the stores will not be spending a lot of time in most foodstuffs I would want to purchase. So yes, one more vote for the cats.
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I am totally for the rats... I will take a stray cat hair anyday over any rat offerings!
be well,
Dawn
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I think that is a great idea & solution, I myself have a very excellent mouse/rat/mole hunter here, Genavieve. However, I see a problem with cats in a shop - someone walking in who is highly allergic, having a reaction and trying to sue the shop owner. "Cuz you know how folks like to sue these days.
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I vote for the cats
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I completely agree. When I moved into my house a few years ago, it apparently had a rodent problem. There were mouse traps and poison left everywhere. My house was a fixer upper. Anyway, the first fall when it started getting cold outside, my cats started leaving blood, guts and rat heads all over the back porch. I couldn't believe the amount of mice and other rodents they caught. That was three years ago and I have not seen a rodent near my house since. Yay, for cats!
12/22/07 8:13 AM
It must be nice getting cat hair on your food when you don't have a cat.