Rats Chew Off Newborn Baby's Nose, Upper Lip in Kansas City, Mo., Apartment (FoxNews)
Exterminators began sweeping a Kansas City neighborhood infested with rats after one of the rodents crawled into a baby's crib and severely disfigured the girl's face.
Authorities said the girl's parents put her in a crib next to their bed early Sunday and awoke a few hours later, when a heart and breathing monitor alarm went off. The 4-week-old baby, which had been born prematurely, was lying in a pool of blood with her nose and part of her upper lip chewed off.
Swoyer said rats can be difficult to exterminate because they are cautious of new things in their environment. He said the rodents have even been known to force weaker members of their colonies to eat new food "to see if they die."
This is just gruesome, and I'm sorry to even post it; but it is an AKJ attack.
I'm not quite sure how this guy is able to document rodents forcing weaker members to test the food; but hey, he's the expert. Being in the rodent family, like the squirrel, they have the same insidious nature, so it wouldn't surprise me.
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I'm not quite sure how this guy is able to document rodents forcing weaker members to test the food...
The rats probably tell the weaker rat that he's on a reality T.V. show and he has a chance to win fame and fortune.
Touche Surly. But how sad for that little girl. I remember a few kids from school days who had a tough time fitting in because of physical oddities. It wasn't even that they were shunned necessarily, but that they were very conscious of their deformity.
This also brings up a question. Can you have plastic surgery to repair that kind of damage before you stop growing? Will she have to wait 16 years to get a new nose?
Uncle Ben
Have you ever seen stories on the doctors that go to South America and do surgery on kids with cleft lips and palates. You'd be amazed what they can do. I certainly pray that this child will be able to receive this kind of treatment.
kd
I've got a high-tech solution for this phase of the AKJ called a "cat". Regarding reconstructive surgery, yes, it can and hopefully will be done.
I just posted recently on the feral cat problem. What KC should do is start having other cities send them any of the cats that they trap and let them loose on the rodent population. The cats are a problem as well, but at least they can't tunnel into your house somehow.
kd
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