Ratzilla

This crosses so many subjects I just decided to put it here.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/...ntcmp=features

It's huge! I wonder how old it had to have been. Is that even the same species of rat that we call a rat?

Gambian Pouched Rat perhaps.

When I lived in Michigan I used to work with an outfit that overhauled electrical power plants. One time working the night shift I saw an animal walking across the lot. I thought it was a possum but it was dark colored. When I approached it I saw it was the largest rat I had ever seen. It was every bit the size of the one in the picture if not larger. Absolutely amazing. It just turned its head to look at me and then mosied on its way clearly unconcerned by my presence, and rightfully so. I had zero intention of finding out which one of us was badder.

With rats like that, who needs rabbits ;)

That rat is bigger than my cats! :O

Norway Rats aka Brown Rats get larger than Black Rats.
A 10 inch body with a matching tail isn't uncommon.
I used to run into them when I worked in food processing. It was sometimes hard to tell who had who cornered. A few Eastern Fox Snakes and maybe some Indigoes would have been very handy.

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Originally Posted by Raven01

Norway Rats aka Brown Rats get larger than Black Rats.
A 10 inch body with a matching tail isn't uncommon.
I used to run into them when I worked in food processing. It was sometimes hard to tell who had who cornered. A few Eastern Fox Snakes and maybe some Indigoes would have been very handy.

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Norway/Brown Rats are the same thing as pet rats/lab rats/feeder rats.

Naturally they had to kill it.

Personally, I hope it's a female and she has a couple of litters in the cellar growing up right now. Maybe they'll get scared enough to leave the house to the rats and move.

Gale

I need to start a colony of these bad boys! I could keep my retics on rats after two years old haha.

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