04-04-2010, 10:54 AM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary
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This just in! CTV: "Rat found in Calgary Alley"
CTV: Rat found in Calgary Alley
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"A necropsy will be done to determine how the rodent died. "
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"Anyone who does see a rat, dead or alive, is asked to call 311 and report it. "
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I understand Alberta's issue with rats, but I was chuckling at what someone not familiar with Alberta's rat-free status would think of a city of over 1 million people obsessing over a dead rat.
"311?!!!! Make that 911! and have the medical examiner on standby, stat!"
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04-04-2010, 10:56 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: SW
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I saw the picture of it yesterday, Looks like a pet or Snake food, it was mostly white.
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04-04-2010, 10:57 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Easter back on in Vancouver
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Alberta rat free? hahahaha do they have a rat fence between saskatchewan and Alberta?
I understand we claim to be rat free. but we definetly aren't. We still do a good job compared to other provinces though.
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04-04-2010, 10:59 AM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by puckluck
Alberta rat free? hahahaha do they have a rat fence between saskatchewan and Alberta?
I understand we claim to be rat free. but we definetly aren't. We still do a good job compared to other provinces though.
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I suppose compared to NYC, we do a pretty good job. But then again, urban myth says NYC has crocodiles living in the sewers.
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Last edited by bcb; 04-04-2010 at 11:02 AM.
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04-04-2010, 11:00 AM
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The City of Calgary averages 8 Rat sightings every year, That's about as close to "Rat Free" as you can get IMO.
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04-04-2010, 11:10 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Methanolic
The City of Calgary averages 8 Rat sightings every year, That's about as close to "Rat Free" as you can get IMO.
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But there's way more politicians in Alberta than that.
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04-04-2010, 11:15 AM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Originally Posted by Methanolic
The City of Calgary averages 8 Rat sightings every year, That's about as close to "Rat Free" as you can get IMO.
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That's probably abut the same as the number of liberal MP/MLA sightings. Cool.
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04-04-2010, 12:51 PM
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Rats = Outside
Mice/Mouse's = Inside
They are the same thing.
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04-04-2010, 12:53 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by puckluck
Alberta rat free? hahahaha do they have a rat fence between saskatchewan and Alberta?
I understand we claim to be rat free. but we definetly aren't. We still do a good job compared to other provinces though.
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The Alberta government employs the Rat Patrol which travels around the province exterminating any and all rat infestations that are reported. Most of their work is done within a couple hundred km of the Saskatchewan border, but they will respond to reports anywhere in the province.
http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex3441
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04-04-2010, 12:55 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Whats The Internet
Rats = Outside
Mice/Mouse's = Inside
They are the same thing.
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That's like saying:
Wolves = Outside
Dogs = Inside
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04-04-2010, 12:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by getbak
That's like saying:
Wolves = Outside
Dogs = Inside
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yes...
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04-04-2010, 12:56 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Chair
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Originally Posted by Shazam
But there's way more politicians in Alberta than that.
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Most of them do their business in Edmonton, where much fouler things steal attention away from them...like the Oilers, for example. I wonder how many rat sightings would be reported in New York if there were fataing dinosaurs and smoke monsters rampaging through the city.
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04-04-2010, 01:00 PM
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Originally Posted by Whats The Internet
Rats = Outside
Mice/Mouse's = Inside
They are the same thing.
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Your posts are baffling.
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04-04-2010, 01:02 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the cut, in the cut
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anyone who has lived in one of the worlds major cities and has seen rats the size of small children would agree with the need to exterminate rats at all costs... *cringe*
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04-04-2010, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by flameswin
Your posts are baffling.
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Not if you think that he's just not that bright.
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04-04-2010, 02:27 PM
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I saw a rat running along a curb on my way away from the point and feather.
Although it could have been a ufo as well
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04-04-2010, 03:50 PM
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^Damn you!
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04-04-2010, 07:20 PM
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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Who cares about rats, it's pigeons that need to be taken care of. Rats with wings and all that.
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04-04-2010, 10:25 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Who cares about rats, it's pigeons that need to be taken care of. Rats with wings and all that.
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I think you mean magpies. I was just about to start another thread called "All magpies should be exterminated".
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