Oh No! Don't Tell Me I've Got Rats!

By R. Paul Stevens

The title says it all...

A humorous look at what a rat invasion did to my wife and how she dealt with it.

[Article 2749 words – 5 pages]

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Paul Stevens
• Release date: Mar 6, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301029853

R. Paul Stevens

R. Paul Stevens is professor emeritus of marketplace theology and leadership at Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, and a marketplace ministry mentor. He has worked as a carpenter and businessman, and served as the pastor of an inner-city church in Montreal. He has written many books and Bible studies, including Doing God's Business, Work Matters, Marriage Spirituality, The Other Six Days and Spiritual Gifts. He is coauthor (with Pete Hammond and Todd Svanoe) of The Marketplace Annotated Bibliography.

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Oh No! Don’t Tell Me I’ve Got Rats!

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Oh No! Don’t Tell Me I’ve Got Rats!

You know before I started writing this article I did a bit of research into this whole topic of rats. You see we had a rat invasion in our home and my sweet, loving, beautiful wife basically went berserk. But more about that later. Look, I don’t like rats any more than the next person. But I felt I had to delve into this subject to see why she has such a terrible phobia of this particular creature.

But even I was horrified about what came up. There are presently 7 billion people in the world. And of course, at the moment, the Homo Sapiens is the dominant species. But is it going to last? I ask that because I discovered there are an estimated 5 billion rats in the world, though exactly how many no one knows. The numbers are really only being kept down by determined efforts by humans to eradicate them. But that’s pretty scary don’t you think? This population could so easily get out of control and we, human beings, would be fighting a horrible rearguard battle which probably we will lose in the end. It’s not just that there are so many of them, it’s that they breed copiously, are intelligent as anything, and tougher than nails. One nuclear war and you and I will be long gone but the rats will thrive. They probably can even feed on radiation. In New York