Yep, a rat

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Just a quick FYI for folks: I've seen a rat close to where I live between Porter and Union.

I've called the city and filed a work order, of course, and I'll be putting out a trap to kill it (please no moralizing; it's not an endangered species and it is a health risk). Just FYI to any in the area with pets or who might otherwise be concerned.

Comments

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I sometimes see skunks on their nightly rounds in my back yard in Ball Square. Once a mama skunk and two skunklets. Raccoons occasionally, too, though I don't stay up as late as they do anymore. Waiting for that first coyote sighting...

[keshwyn]

I saw one over on Winter Hill about three-four years ago. BEAUTIFUL animal. (I promptly warned the neighbors who had small children or small dogs that they left outside...)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

You saw a coyote?

[keshwyn]

I did indeed. It was fairly early in the morning and I was getting my bike out of the basement, and this beautiful dog (it wasn't a dog) came running around the corner, went right past me and on down the street. Took me about five seconds to parse that it was not, in fact, a dog, and then I couldn't stop grinning the entire way to work.