The Alberta Rat War
Decoder Ring
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Alberta, the Only Temperate Place in North America That Doesn't Have a Rat Population
The first rats in alberta were found in the summer of 19 50, outside of the town of alsax. They were initially discovered by employees of the department of health who were looking for plague in ground squirrels but turned up rats instead. Rats can be carriers of plague. But it immediately became an agricultural one too. The rats just caused a of destruction. It's at this moment that the rat scurries up to the province's eastern border, the eastern front and alberta's war against the rat truly begins.
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