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A quick warning: the following text contains some descriptions of poisons, their resulting effects, and experiments done on both humans and animals; should you feel that you might find reading about such subjects offensive, it might prove advantageous for you to skip this post. The rats were back, and this time they appeared as a far cry from when I wrote about them almost gingerly in an earlier post . This time one might almost classify their appearance as a swarm, a scene from one of those horror-movie films where rats arrived one after the other and in such numbers that you tended to gasp. Okay, not quite that bad but shocking enough that my wife and I decided that our playful admiration side of them was proving a bit naïve. The BBC mentioned some time ago that a breeding pair can soon become 200 rats in one year (yes, they breed year round), and we viewed at least 8-10 rats on our porch, scampering around like large flies, far too quick and too smart to fall for thos