My usual ending of this phrase is "no, I'm not. I'm a llama". So ig Jesse isn't one, I probably am.

Hee!

Aren't rats a health department type of problem? They spread disease. If there is a serious problem and the building management isn't taking care of the problem, would the health dept. be able to force them to do something?

Do you have a dustbuster at the office?

Well, the rodent is very dead. But there are little bits of peanut pieces on the floor, from the snap traps he snagged food from, before he was caught. Should I be expecing another rat?

It's highly, highly unlikely that there's precisely one rat who is now dead. Especially since your manager told you the building is ratty.

These are California rats, so they live outside. They just come in to grab food and then leave again. They're n more like ugly, ballsy squirrels than city rats. The only way to get rid of them is to cut down all the vegetation for miles around. If there's no food, they won't come in.

It's highly, highly unlikely that there's precisely one rat who is now dead

Yup. Most rats are either pregnant or building condos in the walls. You never find just. one. rat.

Aren't rats a health department type of problem? They spread disease. If there is a serious problem and the building management isn't taking care of the problem, would the health dept. be able to force them to do something?

I have no idea. I'm not sure what the health department could do, really, since there are rats on campus, due to the fact that we're in the middle of the city, and there are people and food everywhere. I don't even know if the problem is really serious. I am so not in the loop.

Do you have a dustbuster at the office?

No. I don't even have one at home, because mine was pretty and purple, and thus was stolen by a crappy roommate. And I can't find the housekeeping lady anywhere.

The crumbs should be swept or vaccuumed up. Rodents, like bugs, rarely exist alone in an evironment. Don't leave any food of any kind in or on your desk, or anywhere in your office. If you want to go even further, you could go buy some boric acid and leave piles of it in the corners.

Okay. It's good to know that there are many many more rats, and yet at the same time, my skin is only crawling more.

I don't think I'll be able to talk USC into getting rid of all the vegetation, unfortunately.

Also, they could get an exterminator to leave poison out. There were rats outside of this building, who were living off the garbage laft by the construction crew next door, and our exterminator put poison baits out in the lot and said that will cut down on them. Thank GOD our building is well-sealed, plus there was so much food next door that they didn't have any reason to come in.