Meet the woman who rescues Louisiana rats

admin · 06-12-2018, 07:31 PM

It's been a ratty couple of weeks in New Orleans (well, rattier than usual).

Sparked by a viral clip of chubby brown rats taking the air at a Decatur Street restaurant, suddenly rats were everywhere ? the evening news, the front page of The New Orleans Advocate, all over Twitter, where reactions ranged from "Rats in the Quarter, what's new?" to "I'm never leaving the house again."

But there's one Louisiana woman who's a staunch defender of rats' right to ... rat. As founder and director of For the Love of Rats Rescue in Walker, Darleen Watts says rats aren't something to be feared.?

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admin Site Admin Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Orleans Posts: 11,971 Blog Entries: 2	Meet the woman who rescues Louisiana rats It's been a ratty couple of weeks in New Orleans (well, rattier than usual). Sparked by a viral clip of chubby brown rats taking the air at a Decatur Street restaurant, suddenly rats were everywhere ? the evening news, the front page of The New Orleans Advocate, all over Twitter, where reactions ranged from "Rats in the Quarter, what's new?" to "I'm never leaving the house again." But there's one Louisiana woman who's a staunch defender of rats' right to ... rat. As founder and director of For the Love of Rats Rescue in Walker, Darleen Watts says rats aren't something to be feared.?