1.   She has a rat on top of the living room door on Christmas Day, for example, and it will last her two days.

2.   Carmen Lara moved to New Settlement Apartments two years ago from a building a few blocks away that had little security and no heat, but did have rats.

3.   If you want blue rats, you can have blue rats, as one recent episode proved.

4.   It has rats.

5.   Loretta complains that Mississippi probably has more snakes than Chicago has rats, and notes that Earl lives in a dry county.

6.   Miami has its rats and, in Detroit, Red Wings fans have been hurling dead octopi over the sideboards for decades during the playoffs.

7.   Raquel Cintron learned the hard way that it does not pay to tell the men she goes out with that she has rats in her apartment.

8.   Scioscia will try to purge the clubhouse of the finger-pointing and blame-shifting that had the rats running amok in the Mouse Kingdom.

9.   Some of us have grown children, while others still have rug rats running around the house.

10.   Having rats in the kitchen would scare away most diners.