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Originally Posted by senior citizen
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Extra notation to my other reply.
These aren't the Norway rats like in the N.Y.C. subway tunnels.
They are "roof rats" and "citrus rats" like in orange groves.
Smaller size.
In Venice they were in the palm trees as we walked underneath. You could see them.
I've read since then that they are ON ALL THE BARRIER ISLANDS FROM NORTH CAROLINA, SOUTH CAROLINA....DOWN TO FLORIDA AND AROUND FLORIDA THEN AROUND TO LOUISIANA AND TEXAS........
As for alligators, I was told by a realtor at TOP OF THE WORLD north of THE VILLAGES.....that he had a friend who worked at Disney World during his college years............his "job" was to keep all the alligators in a certain location around the perimeter of the Disney World grounds.......but not allow them to get any closer..........he and a team of workers.
All the years we visited D.W. never once did we think of an alligator.
Never knowing that they were "there".......but kept at a distance.
In Venice, I read in the newspapers that they were in the sewer pipes.
It was quite a problem. Some of the sewer pipes went out to the beach.
I wonder why they just don't use something like D-con. Better that then to ruin a town's reputation. The realtors all knew it. A few women realtors told me that they would warn the owners to cover their toilets with saran wrap so that the water didn't evaporate.......or else the rats came up and would chew the draperies, rugs, furniture,......now, if that didn't creep me out. Esp. when you go to sit down??? The Venice newspaper had an article in it about a woman who got up in the middle of the night and a rat was swimming in her toilet. It was a lot of things.........not one little incident.
Plumbers who were working on our kitchen remodel in the condo chatted about all the snakes they were called to "fish out of toilets"......I was never so happy to return to Vermont.
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I think snakes in toilets is a prank that guys like to share. NEVER ever heard of one for real. We will now hear from the guys again. I think they like to laugh at the thought of us very scarily lowering our naked parts to the porcelain throne. My brother was a plumber and he says .....Nawwwww.
I will never forget that Handyman posted that one on here years ago. I never tortured the truth out of him, but I am pretty sure he was pulling our collective girls legs.
One of the biggest sources of rumors and incorrect information and downright fibs are some of our local contractors. They are also the sources of the truth and good direction. Depends who you are listening to.