Poison!

We learned last week that the Kigali City government has decided to address the stray cat problem. I was unaware of a stray cat/dog problem, but evidently, it needed to be resolved. The solution is to lay out poison at night for the animals. As a pet owner, I see an immediate and horrifying problem with this plan. Tchoup, as a result has been on lock down at night since we heard about this. During the day he mostly naps and patrols, but stays in the compound, so we let him outside during the day (I also couldn't imagine trying to deal with him if he was couped up all day everyday).

Of course, there are some other things besides pets that I see potentially negatively effected by this: children, ground water, and anything else that might eat it, like the occassional monkey and the birds. They're laying rat poison, I've been told. I hope we don't lose all our lovely birds.