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RATS

Whether you like them or detest them, you must know that rats are a successful species. Far from being an endangered species, rats survive well even in disastrous conditions. In some ways, rats can be considered as a rival species to humans in "dominance" of the earth. Many beliefs exist about rats, and this helps rats to continue surviving.

You're never more than 20ft from a RAT - not true!

If you corner a rat, it goes for your throat! - not true!

Picture of a Dead Rat - as a yardstick by which to measure what is "objectionable"

Business idea about Rats - what a good idea! Make a fortune by breeding rats! ... oh, maybe that's not such a good idea after all.

Also see mice

RATS leaving a sinking ship - examination of the idea that a sinking ship is said to be abandoned by its quota of rats before going under.

Keep rats as pets? Yes, you can. Here's a Guide to Keeping Pet Rats!

If you keep rats as pets, you can get rat insurance by Pet Plan.

Further note about rats: Having rats loose in the house has implications further than expected. Besides them helping themselves to your food if you don't keep it in a safe, rats have a habit of skittering about in the night, and although they've no intention of encountering you, there is an imagined fear that they might!

Rats and mice, in the context of the government's failure to do sensible things about them, get a special mention in Terry O'Halloran's book: If only Politicians Had Brains