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County Health Department inspectors in Oneida County and state Health Department inspectors in Herkimer County conduct unannounced and periodic checks ...
Meet Ratty, the Little Rodent Who Taught Me a Big Lesson - PETA
Published February 20, 2024 by PETA Foundation . Last Updated April 2, 2024. 4 min read Written by Dana Peer Levis. Meet Ratty, the avocado-loving rodent who nibbled his way into my life and taught my family a valuable lesson about the importance of humane traps. After finding his way into our home through holes in the wall behind our washing machine, Ratty quickly made a reputation for himself as an avocado thief. Curious and crafty, he managed to evade my makeshift humane traps, locating a new avocado every day and leaving behind the bread and peanut butter we had left out for him. Not everyone was satisfied with my attempts to remove Ratty from my home humanely. Our landlord, who brought in a "pest" control team to seal off the walls, tried to give us cruel glue traps—but I knew better than to use those horrible, torturous devices. Glue traps are among the cruelest methods of killing animals. Any small animal who walks across or lands on one become...
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