On Mar 1, 9:34*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> cybercat > wrote:
> > "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> James Silverton > wrote:
>
> >>> ...and the deer have just
> >>> eaten my English ivy nearly to the ground. I'd thought ivy was poisonous
> >>> but not to horn-rats it seems.
>
> >> You just said the deer ate your ivy, not horn rats.
>
> >> WTF is a horn rat, anyway?
>
> >> It's posts like these that really make me wonder if you're actually
> >> of sound mind and body, Jim. *I think you're psycho.
>
> > I'll consider this strong evidence in favor of James' glowing mental health.
>
> So you don't know what a horn rat is either? *Got it.
>
> Depending on where you look, its a series of books, a video game, a
> kind of car, but nowhere can I find any mention of "horned" or
> "horn" rat or deer outside of Jim's imagination.
>
> -sw

Steve, there are sky rats (pigeons), tree rats (squirrels), and now
horn(ed) rats, aka deer which will depradate the landscape of most
suburbs given a winter of little natural foods. Seemed pretty obvious
to me, but then, I've seen what deer can do.

maxine in ri