In 0.3 miles…

…I saw 3 Rats while walking back from Shaw’s. This will not become the Rat reporting blog… but really?

Or maybe this means the new barrels are working? They have to be braver to find food?

And on a mildly different topic Coakley and Brown came out on top. Which one will talk about Harvard and Allston?

Rat Attack! Good thing for new barrels

Admittly no one took the trash out for Thanksgiving week, but this was fine given the over abudance of trash barrels we now have.  Upon bringing in the barrels this morning I noticed that one of them had a hole GNAWED through it.  The marks look bigger than a mouse and smaller than a squarrel.  I think (and hope) the new City of Boston barrels are thicker than our old rubbermaid.

In other news I had my first sidewalk rat sighting in awhile the Monday before Thanksgiving.  This time the rat took longer to flee.  As a side note I saw no rats during my 2 weeks in China.  So Allston has the distinct honor of having more rats than Hong Kong or ShenZhen per capitia, based on my sample size of 1 observer.

Maybe Boston should have an open hunting season on rats?  Only subsonic air powered sidearms allowed, firing within 300 yards of a dwelling would be allowed…  actually that sounds like suicide… it would probably take a 410 shotgun to take out an Allston rat…

Mutant Rats Attack Allston?

This would be funny if it wasn’t (almost) true:

http://www.ivygateblog.com/2009/04/harvard-expansion-unearthing-rats-big-enough-to-put-saddles-on-allston-residents-not-glad/