Spring Flings

  • The Floor of Heaven by Howard Blum
  • An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin
  • The Devil She Knows by Bill Loehfelm
  • Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
  • The Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (book club read)
  • Death of a Pinehurst Princess by Steve Bouser
  • Still Life by Louise Penny
  • Looking at Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gilmore
  • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (book club read)
  • Trap Line by Carl Hiaasen
  • Killer Stuff and Tons of Money by Maureen Stanton

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Rats are a new kind of service animal???

Hubby picked up the Secondhand News last week.  As I was looking through it I noticed an ad under Volunteers Wanted.  The Phoenix Rodentry and Rescue needs someone to help train rats as service animals.  I kid you  not!  For 25-40 hours per week, you can handle and train rats to assist humans.  Assist them in what, the ad did not say.

I went on their website, which said they are a non-profit rattery looking for foster homes for homeless rats.  If that isn't creepy enough, there is a memorial page for rats that have crossed over the Rainbow Bridge to rat heaven.

Needless to say, I will not be volunteering there.  Even though the ad did say the volunteer may get paid if there were available funds.

I did a google search on rat service animals and found out there is a women in California that keeps a rat on her shoulder to let her know when she is going to have a seizure.

Oh boy, on further research, I found that the rattery is also a nudist colony.  You can camp there by the creek if you so desire.  But be warned, sex is only allowed in certain areas of the woods.  Can it get any creepier????

Here are some rat pics from the Phoenix Rodentry and Rescue.



Here is the website if you would like to see for yourself:  http://williard_oscar.tripod.com/brsfrcsite/index.html

1 comment:

  1. As CEO I will gladly post a comment, nudist colonies only exist in areas where they are legal the secluded part of this property is only reserved as a small club approved by Ashe County Law Enforcement. The rats are the main issue which I have chosen to have in my care for 22 years now.

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