/24-7PressRelease.com/ - While most people perceive rats as stupid, dirty, disease carrying animals, their super intelligence at least is now being recognised by Belgian Scientists as they use Giant African Pouch Rats to save human lives by smelling out landmines and tuberculosis. (See Editors’ Notes)
Here in the UK, domestic (or ‘fancy’) rats are also being trained – but this time in the art of smelling out new-build botch jobs. The 22 rats at small animal shelter CavyRescue have been getting intensive, hands-on (or we should say, ‘paws-on’) training on how to sniff out a builder’s botch job at their £200,000 home in Kent and have already experienced all sorts of builder’s bungles, big and small, from:
windows that are not sealed in properly (which caused pneumonia and the death of one little rat*);
doors that flout fire safety regulations;
electrical sockets that don’t work and botched paint jobs;
leaky sinks, windows and re-occurring bulging walls;
shoddy workmanship such as cracked tiles and mismatched skirting boards;
central heating that does not work…..
And this extensive learning curve for the rats is just the tip of the iceberg as neighbours** at the Bryant Homes Development near Rochester have assisted in the training by showing them other examples of unacceptable workmanship such as:
internal walls that are so unsound they need removing and replacing;
garages built so close together that no one can actually get their car in;
semi-built properties blowing down in heavy winds:
loose bricks and gardens with missing bits of fencing;
a window that cannot be opened as it hits the roof of an adjoining garage and handles hanging off kitchen cupboards;
draughts coming through unsealed windos and uninsulated walls so severe that a new baby has to be swaddled up in blankets to keep him warm – even in the Summer;
sinks hanging off walls, dodgy electrics, carpets ruined by clumsy contractors and entry and exit doors that cannot be opened;
serious back and foot injuries to residents on the development caused by missing sections of pavement and dangerous doors that their insurers have yet to acknowledge
Jason Hulott from CavyRescue says: "Our rats will not be rented out to new-build buyers as a way to sniff out builder’s botches just yet as they are on a continuous training programme. After 6-months in this rich learning environment, they are still finding new problems every day….."
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