Now about the rat problem. The owner of the trailer court needs to have an exterminator over and he needs to have authority enough to insist on hygeine practices that are not conducive to rats. Now, every high school student in America and the world should have the knowledge and some skills to fight rats, cockroaches etc. They should know how to repair holes where they come in, how to protect food from them in tight containers, be prepared to set traps and dispose safely of the rats caught. We just can not afford as a nation to keep producing helpless people..I am talking about non-handicapped people of adequate potential etc. Now, a wise community would say, we have a rat problem, and we have an employment problem. Let us contract out with some people to set rat traps and go around and clean up places they like to hide and you kill two birds with one stone. Hopefully either these three women in the above scenario have been taught those skills or can acquire them or they can barter a ride in their car, which one of them hopefully has, or a home cooked dinner of trout and lentils and blackberry cobbler, or a haircut, for someone to set the traps for them and plug up the rat holes. mg