<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>Our Rattailaban ratness relocation program continues to go well. To date, we have relocated six operatives: 4 brown rats and 2 gray mice. (At least in Hawaii, you can tell the difference by their ears--rats here have smallish laid back ears. Mice have stand-up, round Mickey Mouse ears. Both species grow to impressive sizes). Each night we set our have-a-heart trap just inside the doggie door. My DH relocates the captives to an open field outside of town when he gets up in the middle of the night anyway. All has been going smoothly. Why am I writing?</DIV>
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<DIV>To let the troops of the PBF know that their commander, Bo, has finally abandoned his shyness about command and decided to emulate the Theodore Roosevelt character in "Arsenic and Old Lace". (The one who periodically came out of his room to blow a bugle and yell "charge!") Bo has decided to announce the capture of each new prisoner and rally the troops living in our house (all of whom are asleep at night except for Bo, who apparently stands watch). Rats are nocturnal. They usually enter our home under cover of darkness (1 or 2 AM?). When this happens, Bo stands in the middle of the livingroom and starts baying/bellowing until everyone in our household (and probably the whole neighborhood) leaps out of bed (sometimes still in a horizontal position) and runs to the front lines. We are hoping we will exhaust the enemy forces soon (before we are all forcibly evicted from our position). Semper fido. Val</DIV></div><br>
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