the 4-legged kind.PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Staffers normally concerned as of late with exterminating the state’s financial crisis are finding themselves distracted by rats that popped up last week in two offices. An exterminator inspected one building Monday after the rodents dodged several traps left for them over the weekend.
Sue Stenhouse, Gov. Don Carcieri’s director of community relations and emergency preparedness, spotted a rat Thursday night after returning to her first-floor office to gather some papers needed for a meeting. She noticed, from the corner of her eye, something darting across the floor and assumed it was a mouse.
Stenhouse realized her mistake when the rodent haunched up and appeared to look at her.
“I thought it was a squirrel that really just came in a window or something,” said Stenhouse. “And then, I saw that tail and I was really concerned.”
