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chancy
11th March 2016, 16:16
Hello Everyone:
Now this is a HUGE RAT! I was watching a documentary a few years ago about a few scientists studying rats, their habitat, size etc. These scientists had travelled all over the world studying rats and positively assured everyone rats could not grow to be HUGE!
At the time I had just gotten back from travelling in Vietnam. I was at a Vietnamese families home and we were eating lunch. The front door was open and there was a white picket fence about 4 feet away from the front door. Just then this HUGE animal was walking on the fence past the front door. I exclaime what the ""ell is that? The people said that's a rat! I had just watched the documentary about rats with these scientists assuring rats could not grow to be huge! This rat was the size of a BIG TOMCAT! It was smaller than this rat in the article but still HUGE.
Please look at the article and see how huge this rat is.....You will want to make sure you don't have any doors open to the outside...hahaha
chancy

Link:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/huge-rat-found-near-children-124639830.html

Article
This HUGE Rat Was Found Near A Children’s Playground In London
Yahoo News
March 11, 2016

This beastly rodent is enough to give you nightmares.

The huge rat was found dead just feet away from a popular playground for children in London.

Gas engineer Tony Smith, 46, spotted the animal while working at a block of flats in the middle of London – and held it up for the camera to see.

Of course, its size is distorted by how close it is to lens – but it’s still a sizeable creature.

Smith said that the rat, which was found near where children play in Hackney Downs, London, was by far the largest he’d ever seen.

Tony, from Dagenham, said: “This is the largest rat I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

"I’ve got a cat and a Jack Russell and it was bigger than both of those put together.

"We were going to stick it in the bin, but before we did we thought we better take a picture of people won’t believe it’s real."

The father-of-three added: "I came home and showed my wife and she was absolutely shocked.

"I’ve been installing boilers across Hackney, Southwark, Whitechapel, for thirty years and have never seen a rat so big."

Tony explained that the estate where he was working has an infestation of rats, so there is poison left around to catch the enormous creatures.

He said: "The bins get left open nearby so these little fellas have a pretty good diet.

"They eat fried chicken and rice all the time.”

“We just chucked it in the bin because we couldn’t leave it lying around. It was huge,” added Tony.

TargeT
11th March 2016, 16:21
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/H4KJBUPS6P_o0vreRmBebw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTk2MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/newsroom.news.yahoo.com.uk/9705de0de9386d17522ac4544a4c2fd3

huge for england? Must be a slow news day, that's a typical farm rat from anywhere in the plains area of the US


I'm guessing the body of that rat is around 9" long? maybe 10"/11"?

Becky
11th March 2016, 16:38
Eeeeeeeak!!!

Calz
11th March 2016, 16:59
This instantly came to mind ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjuZiVrrJZ4#t=34

kirolak
11th March 2016, 17:54
Poor thing!! I would love to meet a big, fat rat like that - I have 3 lovely, normal sized rates as pets, & they are intelligent, interactive & charming (much more so than the fool who killed the big one in the photo!)

Why do people hate rats? They are mammals like us; they give birth in pain & blood & suckle their young, just as we do. Please don't tell me they carry vermin - humans carry vermin too! A colleague of mine in London was bitten by a human in some sort of brawl, & two YEARS later he was still struggling with the resultant infection.

This sort of post makes me feel truly alien.

TargeT
11th March 2016, 18:05
Poor thing!! I would love to meet a big, fat rat like that - I have 3 lovely, normal sized rates as pets, & they are intelligent, interactive & charming (much more so than the fool who killed the big one in the photo!)
This sort of post makes me feel truly alien.


It was found dead... Why do people hate reading and love knee jerk reactions?



I've had pet rats (pretty cool & smart) , I recently had a mongoose; those are my favorite small furry creatures to date ;)
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kirolak
11th March 2016, 18:40
Sorry - I apologise, I couldn't read further than the picture. . . my bad. . . I am so tired of animals being hurt.

TargeT
11th March 2016, 18:44
Sorry - I apologise, I couldn't read further than the picture. . . my bad. . . I am so tired of animals being hurt.

Me too, but there's definitely things we can do about it ;)

Shannon
12th March 2016, 05:05
This instantly came to mind ...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjuZiVrrJZ4#t=34

Ha! I was thinking about that scene and was going to post the same!! Great minds think alike... to music and movie scenes lol

jc71
12th March 2016, 09:57
It was big, but maybe not quite as big as it seemed.

http://metro.co.uk/2016/03/12/was-the-4ft-monster-rat-just-a-trick-of-perspective-5747736

JC

Marikins
12th March 2016, 18:15
Oh, my bad, I thought it was going to be a member of Parliament!

DeDukshyn
12th March 2016, 18:54
Sorry - I apologise, I couldn't read further than the picture. . . my bad. . . I am so tired of animals being hurt.

Maybe so, but assumptions are only going to make it worse, not better :)

Animals get hurt all the time, so do humans, it is a part of life, a part of living in a physical world, although humans and cats tend to torture other animals for fun, cats can be forgiven because that is their instinct, whereas humans have to override their natural instincts to do the same. It is shameful, so I'll agree with you there. Just trying to point out the fact that we humans have to override our natural loving instincts with ego to become the monsters we are (in all regards) -- and this effect is culturally encoded, referred to as "civilization". But I digress ...

bettye198
12th March 2016, 21:59
:thumbsdown::fear::behindsofa::cry:Give me a snake any day but never a rodent.

DouglasDanger
13th March 2016, 00:12
It is not that big, the camera angle makes it look 3x the size it actually is. Are we realy at a point where we want to save every dirty rodent on the earth even the ones that carry serious disease? The diseased vermin that brave man is holding would chew on every one of you alive with out a second thought. I Also had pet rats and they are not as smart nore cleanly as some people tell you, they do not care where they mess, what they chew or whom they bite. Not an intelligent animal at all IMHO just one that has better instincts for survival than others.

PurpleLama
13th March 2016, 00:27
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/H4KJBUPS6P_o0vreRmBebw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTk2MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/newsroom.news.yahoo.com.uk/9705de0de9386d17522ac4544a4c2fd3

huge for england? Must be a slow news day, that's a typical farm rat from anywhere in the plains area of the US


I'm guessing the body of that rat is around 9" long? maybe 10"/11"?

Dude. That foot is about 3 1/2 to 4 inches. The body is somewhere between 16 and 18 inches, unless the exterminator is a midget.

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My wife said, probably not many of it's kind left.

Carmody
13th March 2016, 01:08
The Chinese would love to breed them for food.

I'm serious.

DeDukshyn
13th March 2016, 18:33
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/H4KJBUPS6P_o0vreRmBebw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9MTI4MDtoPTk2MA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/homerun/newsroom.news.yahoo.com.uk/9705de0de9386d17522ac4544a4c2fd3

huge for england? Must be a slow news day, that's a typical farm rat from anywhere in the plains area of the US


I'm guessing the body of that rat is around 9" long? maybe 10"/11"?

Dude. That foot is about 3 1/2 to 4 inches. The body is somewhere between 16 and 18 inches, unless the exterminator is a midget.

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My wife said, probably not many of it's kind left.

He's holding it out extended on his stick in front of the camera (easily with one hand mind you), the perspective gives the illusion of immense size. Target's size approximations above are about right in my opinion ... large, but not record breaking by any means.

Reminds of the old B-movie "Deadly Eyes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083801/)" ;)

PurpleLama
13th March 2016, 23:01
The Chinese would love to breed them for food.

I'm serious.

Organically grown rat. Sounds as good as "cousin," almost.