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3d167c3 Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small children. There have been reports of mongooses attacking motorbikes, power lawn mowers, golf carts, and James Michener. in Hawaii now, there are as many mongooses as there once were rats. Hawaii had traded its rat problem for a mongoose problem. Hawaii was determined nothing like that would ever happen again. How could Leigh-Cheri draw for Gulietta the appropriate analogy between Hawaii's rodents and society at large? Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem. injustice mongooses hawaii rodents justice crime Tom Robbins
34e4e51 "Not much goes on in the mind of a squirrel. Huge portions of what is loosely termed "the squirrel brain" are given over to one thought: food. The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: ." thoughts rodents squirrels brains thinking food Kate DiCamillo
dcfc015 I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits. people rodents rats Philip Pullman
6649716 "But he might have had a bang on the head!" said Joan. "Poor little boy, he thinks he was a rat!" "Hmm," said the receptionist, and wrote on a pink slip of paper." rodents rats hospitals Philip Pullman