Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Blackbeard: Scourge of the Seven Seas" video.
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 @leechgullyÂ
I just might...I live in a big very old house my husband inherited and it's in an old neighborhood. A man behind us lived for fifty years in his house alone, as a hoarder and never repaired anything. He passed away, and the house was left abandoned for 6 months until a rehab company bought it. They gutted it down to the frame, and a million rats and mice came out. In 24 hours every house on the street had giant, Norwegian roof rats INSIDE their houses. Those things were completely fearless and over a foot high, NOT counting the length of the tail. They were starving and chewed through, wood, plaster and metal screens to get inside. It was the worst experience I've ever lived through, and I been through tornadoes (here) and earthquakes (in Los Angeles). It was like a hideous nightmare, once one was in, they swarmed in! We had to flee with our dogs to a motel. A pest co had to come out and totally replace the attic insulation, place giant box traps everywhere and seal up the millions of holes in our old house. It cost us about 15 grand, not counting the fact that rats were all over every single thing we owned, ruining food, clothes, cosmetics, toiletries, our furniture, you name it. Then of course, we had to sterilize the entire place because they carry over 30 communicable diseases. Our neighbors put out poison which the rats ate and then died in their walls and attic, driving them out with the stench. We didn't want to go that route. I put out cat food for the stray cats in the neighborhood for a couple of days and we attracted a ton of cats, who stayed on to hunt. They spent all night and day at our house, killing rats and mice. I rewarded them with some food, so they didn't eat poisoned rats, and they stuck around, killing hundreds of vermin. I adopted a couple to live inside, since there were still a couple of rodents we couldn't seem to trap or chase out. If we had kept cats originally, we would have saved a ton of money. I love them and consider myself a devotee of Bastet, the cat goddess, since our house would not have been livable without them. On a very weird note, there is an ancient Japanese fairy tale that terrified me as a child, about a small child who draws cats and ends up alone sheltering in an ancient temple. Being lonely, he draws cats all around the walls and goes to sleep, only to wake up to find a gigantic rat fighting a battle with a huge cat. They battle to the death and the cat keeps the rat from killing the boy. The temple has had a dangerous rat spirit for many years, and only the boys devotion to cats saves him.
Now that I've lived through this rodent infestation, I might start drawing cats too!
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