| Often mice and rats are considered as disgusting beings, which bring misfortune and death. However, one must not forget that due to these small animals, we have attained considerable development in medicine, microbiology, pharmacology and other sciences. At present, there are more than 300 known pure lines of laboratory animals among which white mice and rats occupy a very important place.
When white and colored laboratory rats and especially mice are kept, it is important to clean the cages and wash their pallets with hot water daily. These small animals smell a lot, and it is a problem to keep them in the house.
In the news:
A KFC restaurant has been in trouble with a rat infestation problem which was filmed by video cameras.
The local TV crew from Greenwich Village, NY, taped the rats through the restaurant windows from the building located opposite the KFC. The video shows over twelve rats running round the restaurant looking for the remains of food and playing with each other on the customer's tables and chairs.
The KFC restaurant was closed at the time of filming and the company officials said that rats may have found their way to the restaurant building through the faulty basement construction which had some openings.
A local TV company released the video for all to see - it was aired on TV as well as posted on news web sites - to the complete dismay and shock of the KFC customers looking at the rat infested KFC which took their orders and served their food just yesterday.
One of the upset customers was quoted as saying that the place should be closed and all rats thrown in jail.
Rats are and have always been one of the oldest problems in New York City. NYC's big population provides the ideal environment for rats, mice and other rodents, who thrive of the food supply in the trash and who live naturally in the city subways, parks, and apartment buildings.
However it was still a surprise to find such a dense rat population in one place, particularly in the place where hundreds of people eat every day. The resident who lives in the building opposite the infested KFC place expressed his anger saying that he lives next to a place which supplies the rats for the entire city. Such a situation, he said, is completely unacceptable and should be dealt with by New York officials.
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KFC restaurant has been in the news after video cameras there discovered rats racing around the restaurant's floors, playing with each other and sniffing for food as they dashed around tables and children's high chairs. The Department of Health had inspectors at the site in the morning for hours, and by midday had posted a sign that read "CLOSED." The cameras filmed the rats again however. Apparently rats can't read.
