what a match

Oh, and my rat is back - as of Friday night. I know this because Friday night is when Baer loudly chest-bumped the window (I swear, if he gains another pound or two, he will be able to break that window).

Let me explain how I have justified the existence of the rat and the fact that I am, in essence, feeding him:

• He has defeated poison and I refuse to set any sort of trap.
• I have changed the type of seed and the type of feeder and have zero (or close to zero) birdseed waste.
• I have been traveling too much to keep up with taking the feeder in at nights and won't take it down while I'm gone because the birds are dependent on the food.
• Maybe the rat is dependent on the food.
• He is not living on my porch, he's only visiting.
• He's not bothering anything on my porch except the feeder itself - he jumps directly onto it to eat.
• He's not trying to get into my apartment - and, maybe by keeping food outside, he will not want to come inside looking for food.
• Rats are squirrel-adjacent animals and I would feed a squirrel.
• He's a mammal and I anthropomorphize mammals to some extent.

See how easy that is?