My maternal grandparents live next-door to my dad's house (my childhood home). I was sitting in their back room playing with my two-and-a-half-year-old cousin Dylan when he chanced to look outside at the garden.

"Look at that squirrel eating the bird food!" he observed.

So I did.

"Oh yes," said I, laying my eyes upon a humongous rat.


So yeah. Rats now.