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March 26, 2007
Hundreds of pigeons, rats and mice were rescued by the Toronto Humane Society on Sunday where they were holed up in an apartment without food or water. The smell of the animals' excrement is what drew the police and Humane Society to the 15th floor Bleeker Street apartment (Wellesley and Sherbourne).
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February 23, 2007
Topics rats, subway, video, tv, city, buildings, rat, construction, eye, window, health, internet, restaurant and world
A few months after enduring an E. coli outbreak, about a dozen rats were seen having a good time Friday in a locked KFC/Taco Bell restaurant in New York City. The rat infestation was brought to public eye after a TV crew captured shots of rats through a window of the Greenwich Village building. Video footage of the rats was seen around the world, broadcast on TV stations and the Internet.
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January 9, 2007
Topics rats, rat, arizona, toilet, health, university, laura, phoenix, snakes, swimming, paper, food, woman and face
The neighbors of the University of Arizona are facing strange problem that includes small white rats that have been swimming through sewer pipes and into their toilets. According to Laura Hagen Fairbanks, spokeswoman for the county's Wastewater Management Department, they are the kind that researchers use in labs.
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January 9, 2007
After 37 rats and six cats were seized from the filthy cabin of his sailboat, a man now faces charges of cruelty to animals and confining animals in too small of a space. In 2006 authorities discovered Roger Dier of Petaluma to be living with 1,300 rats and evicted him from his one-bedroom home. Shortly thereafter Dier bought a 29-foot sailboat.
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December 17, 2006
Some 80 live rats caused panic on board a flight in northwest Saudi Arabia after escaping from a passenger's rucksack, the Arab News reported. According to the report, passengers of a Saudi Airlines flight to the city of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia, began panicking after seeing the live rats running on board the plane.
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