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Growing up in AB, I really didn't conceptually understand what rats are like in other places. I can't think of another animal with that same ubiquitousness. Ha
by id34 2y ago
Growing up in AB, I really didn't conceptually understand what rats are like in other places. I can't think of another animal with that same ubiquitousness.
Having no exposure as a kid means I find them terribly terribly gross when I see them in other places - in a park in Mexico City a couple months ago I audibly jumped when I saw them rooting around in gardens. Probably something to be said about exposure therapy
- hbn 2y agoI've lived in Saskatchewan my whole life where we don't have this law and I can't say I've seen a lot of rats in my life. Maybe if you work in unhygienic restaurant kitchens, or on a farm you might see them more. But in the city, it's not a thing I can ever remember encountering.
- bryanlarsen 2y agoIf you're in Saskatchewan and you see rats you call Alberta. They'll come by and get rid of them for you.
- tonyarkles 2y agoI laughed so so hard when Ratatouille came out and had this little extra feature on the DVD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-2xD9ShhMZU https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=-2xD9ShhMZU Also another SK HNer checking in!
- dboreham 2y agoYou'll see vast numbers of rats any night in downtown Seattle or San Francisco.
- gotaran 2y agoI lived in both for more than a decade. I only remember seeing a mouse sized rat once in Seattle. Never saw one in SF. I live in NYC now and see multiple on a daily basis. Exposure therapy helps, but barely. It still scares the shit out of me a few years in.
- morkalork 2y agoBeen seeing them more frequently in Montreal, apparently the city banned some specific poisons used to control the population so we end up with fun videos like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/x5cnu6/sweet_old_chinatown/ https://old.reddit.com/r/montreal/comments/x5cnu6/sweet_old_...
- nightowl_games 2y agoI'm also from Saskatchewan, cheers
- hbn 2y agoThere are dozens of us!
- dowager_dan99 2y agoI saw you all at the last Stamps v. RR game, wearing watermelons on your heads!
- rikthevik 2y ago-30 reporting in
- herewulf 2y agoAnd it's a ho, hi Farmers bar your doors When you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores XD
- ChumpGPT 2y ago>I can't think of another animal with that same ubiquitousness. In Toronto, you have rats, Racoons, Canadian geese, and pigeons. An infestation almost everywhere downtown and throughout the city. I've seen a rat in Toronto that I mistaken for a Raccoon, it was insane how big it was. A crowd of people waiting for the Subway started running for their lives as it ran toward them on the platform. There is a rat, Racoon, epidemic in Toronto. They are everywhere and I don't think there is an effort to try and control them. As a matter of fact, I think they may be protected by law since I have heard of people almost going to jail for trying to chase away Raccoons with a broom.
- Graziano_M 2y agoI also grew up in Alberta, and I never even saw a raw in my life until I visited Europe in my 20s.
- throaway250 2y agoMB has regular amounts of rats. My dad said he once saw one the size of a small cat in an old basement.
- rts_cts 2y agoI grew up in Alberta, too. Intellectually, I knew what a rat was but I'd never seen one in my life. After school, I moved down to California and was leaving work late one night (Sunnyvale, CA) and saw this crazy thing walking along the curb near my car. It was like a really small cat, or a huge mouse, or a short weasel with a long tail. There I was, all alone in the parking lot in the middle of the night shouting at this rat, "Hey! You're a RAT!" The rat was not concerned by this.
- TheGrassyKnoll 2y agoIt was probably poisoned & couldn't give a damn about anything else.