Rodents

I live in a neighborhood with a brutal rodent problem. Mice and voles to be exact.

Until last month I didn't know what voles even were. But now I see their tiny body parts strewn across my sidewalks every time I leave my house.

The infestation is so bad that each time I jog or bike on the trail nearby I measure my distance in dead rodents. This morning's jog was 37 rodents. Also 37 minutes. So....there's that.

Every time I check in on facebook there are updates of whose porch is littered with pieces of the things.

It's filthy. And disgusting. And gives us all the heebie jeebies.

And now you see why I'm writing this on "the porn blog".

It's interesting to watch everybody's reaction to the infestation:
Sister Smith has taken it upon herself to call the city demanding they do something.
Brother Johnson bought a cat and let it have a million babies all of whom are killing machines.
The Williams children throw rocks and use slingshots.
Sister Jones orders poison by the caseload every month.

But the majority of us are simply doing the very little we can to keep the filth out of own homes. We certainly don't lay out cheese and crackers, or leave our doors and windows open inviting them in.
We find the holes and fill them.
We lay traps and poison.
We try to set up barriers.
And then we clean up the carcasses.

But because of the overwhelming number, it simply isn't enough. We still find them on our lawn, sidewalks and porches. We still squirm as we watch them run across the road. There are still 37 mice in a 37 minute run.

So I'm wondering, what will it take? It seems to me that it will take an enormous unified effort. Every neighbor pitching in at once. Every person laying poison and filling holes. We ALL need to be sharing our information and connecting our resources. Because this isn't a battle one household can win alone.

And so it is with porn.

So please, share what you know. Invite people around you to meetings, blogs & forums. Let them know what has worked for you and let them share with you what works for them. This may not be every person's current top priority and that's ok but the more people sharing what works, the better off we'll be.