"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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That's a non sequitur.There may have been cooked food in your heap,
but that does not prove the reason for the rat going in it. I saw a
rat-hole in my warm compost heap the other week, but there's no meat or
cooked leftovers of any kind in that heap because I have other uses for
that material.

Many people fail to understand the difference between correlation and cause
and effect. Hence one can propose interesting theories like 'Global warming
is caused by a decline in the number of pirates' see www.venganza.org for
more details.

Pete