Should be here tooo!

[Roland]

It's illegal for rats (at least the 4-legged kind) to exist in Alberta and it's been this way for eons. The Rat Patrol has been in existence for all these many years and cruises the borders with other provinces and US, and any activity that's suspicious of rats is investigated immediately and thoroughly. Any positive cases are killed off quickly. It sounds incredible and very few outsiders actually believe we are rat-free - but it's true! Very often in the Fall, when young muskrats leave their birth places to look for their own territories, people will mistake them for Norwegian rats and immediately phone the Rat Patrol who check it out. I've actually worked for years in fairly close contact with one member of the Rat Patrol in my area. Pity we can't keep out the relatively few 2-legged criminal rats that sneak in here to cause trouble among decent people.