Padger wrote:

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What is the problem with having a few rats around? (4 legged ones)
People seem to have this morbid dread of rats which is possibly a hangover
from the plague days and even then it was the fleas which the rats carried
that spread the plague, not the rats themselves.
There seems to me to be a whole lot of discrimination in the way we regard
our wildlife.
(snip)
Better stop now in case I dig out my soap box and really go into one.
ps I am not immune from damage to my garden from the local wildlife but I
would rather have that than no visits from them.

My thoughts en-ti-re-ly. Keep that soap box. I'll make the badges and
flyers )