......you've got to love Colombo and I have to admit to being party to painting a live rat as well as the remand centre yesterday.
Now, before you call the African equivalent of the *RSPCA you may recall that the body count was already standing at two humans and a lizard (I forgot to mention the lizard in yesterdays post) that the children took great delight in dismembering when it had the misfortune to venture into their small concrete enclosed exercise yard.
The rat in question was living in one of the beds and whilst myself and some friends were working on sprucing the place up a little we disturbed it from its cosy home. My personal view on rats is that they are disease bearing vermin and I wouldn't want it living in my bed so I think it got away very lightly with just being painted blue instead of being brutally exterminated which is exactly what would have happened if we had let the children have their way with it.
I feel my conscience is mildly salved in admitting my complicit guilt in this animal cruelty but I would also like it noted that the body count at the remand centre remained at two humans and a lizard and the rat will live to fight another day even if he is feeling a little blue!
*Royal Society of Protection of Cruelty to Animals
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