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	Some City Rats Roam Far From Home

ratilfar

6-3-2009 4:22 PM

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ratilfar says:

Smart little buggers!

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6-4-2009 6:28 AM

Kreuzberg-Jakob

It's a very good luck for us all, that they don't be able to kill the rats!
Our Metro and caves would turn into stinky holes during one week, if they didn't ate all the thrown away kebabs and saussages!
Unlike in other cities, our rats are getting smaller during the years. So they come thru small holes in the walls, that were made for wires and tubes. I'm glad about those cleaners of our underworld! Meanwhile we have enough foxes to keep them down there.

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