Originally Posted by justinsain

I had a pet rat when i was a kid and thought they were pretty cool too.


Then I read a feature article in a magazine about the life of a new york city rat control worker. He went on to tell some horrific stories about his encounters with rats in NYC. What I found the most disturbing and completely changed my opinion of rats was the fact that they will actually eat human flesh and it doesn't matter if the person is dead orl alive.

He talked about elderly, bed ridden people that had their ears eaten off by rats or their fingers stripped to the bone. Now imagine coming home from the bar and passing out on your bed and that cute little rat you see running for crumbs in the kitchen climbs up on your bed and proceeds to gnaw off all the flesh on your fingers.

Most animals will leave you alone if you leave them alone. Not the rat. It lives amongst us and will actually eat you when given the right opportunity.

Fact: The size of the opening a rat can squeeze through is limited only by the size of his skull.