776...Rat Pack

You may file this in the part of your brain that stores vital cocktail party yet otherwise useless information: Alberta is the only province or state in the NAFTA 3 that is rat free. The four legged kind.

That was not so last week. According to CBC a single Saskatchewan rat had made its way to Calgary [more jobs, better opportunity, tastier garbage] and was ensconced in the Coventry Hills neighbourhood. The Alberta Rat Patrol trapped the little bugger and got rid of him.

Alberta spends about half a million a year on rat control but the effort most likely saves millions upon millions in potential crop damage, disease and so on.

Amazingly PETA, People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals, is silent on this issue.

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566...National Hot Dog Month

Geez, I just found this on UPI.com. It is an American holiday, festival I suppose would be the better word, dating back to 1957, but hey, you went to a Super Bowl party, right?

It goes with out saying that People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals are against this.

If they weren't so hot [Pam Anderson, Playmate of the Year Jayde Nicole, Playmate Joe Garcia are with PETA] I would be against them.

By the way, reference Post 476, Oscar Mayer III passed this mortal coil during National Hot Dog Month.

A coincidence?

I think not.

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