You Know You're a New Yorker When...

[lagilman]

Something the size and shape of a young squirrel dashes across the sidewalk in front of you, and your brain thinks "huh. rat." And you stop and turn to look, and when you see it peering back at you from the safety of behind a gate you think, "aw. cute."

And before anyone gets all ick! in my post:

Rats are cute little bastards.
yeah, in too large a number they become massive and potentially dangerous pests, but I'd say that about people, too....  and rats generally don't bite for no reason. Not are they "filthy" when given proper living conditions.

(this was not one of the massive sewer rats of lore and legend...those are the gang members of the rodent population.  But, again, humans have those to...)

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I just evicted a mousie family from my garage, they were awfully cute, and I escorted them to the greenspace as it were... cute vermin.. sigh.

[lagilman]

Oh, we had a mouse infestation when I lived in NJ and man, I held a grudge because those bastards refused to move.

I've no problem with nature when it stays in nature, and not in my living room. Or, for spiders, in my shower.

(I give allowances for spiders and ladybugs, but only so far).

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

the bags of bird seed are the attraction, but, I do caution them and tell them that I will put out poison .. then they will die.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

We used to get wharf rats where I lived in Atlantic Beach. The things were damned near the size of my cat, and utterly brazen.