> The first summer that we were at the block, we had a really huge tin shed that we lived in while we were building our house. (We lived in that shed for three years!)
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> Anyway...
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> We had all crept off to bed, but about half an hour later we heard this "splash splash" noise coming from the cooking area (you couldn't really call it a kitchen).
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> Anyway...
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> as we were all curious as to what was making this splashing noise - not to mention it was quite noisy and you couldn't sleep with it anyway....all 6 of us got back up again, out of our beds and wandered to the "kitchen" area, Dad turned on the lights and .....
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> (trying to make some suspense here....is it working?)
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> We saw this huge brown rat swimming in this pot mum had left on the stove to soak. It was huge! had to of been at least a foot long (without tail!)

EW! A tailless rat! ;-)

> so......
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> We turned the stove on and had rat soup the next morning! Kidding! Ugh! Im kidding!
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> R"I'm game to try new foods and stuff but I think thats going too far!"oach
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> P.S. We let the rat go outside.

Nyperold