With Giant Rats Now Living Up North

[DrFilth]

do you think it is a sign of god helping the poor get some meat with all the benefit cuts and long queues at the food banks

http://metro.co.uk/2014/04/13/giant-mutant-rats-make-their-way-to-liverpool-4698056/

[TWR]

Do they call them M.P.?

[DrFilth]

even the swedes are faking them
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDIWRnQ_BXo

[DrFilth]

if we have them the yanks have got to have them -)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlU3pR65BxA

[naomi24]

Dr.Filth, the Evening Harold is a joke. Where are the long queues you claim exist?

[naomi24]

ps. If you get no further response from me it's because I've gone to bed. Night again.

[DrFilth]

you running out of leccy my candle is also getting low

[Svejk]

I was enjoying all t'northern folk getting 'mardy'? with each t'other.

[naomi24]

Northern folk? Wash your mouth out, Svejk. :o)

Night ......... again!

[DrFilth]

Svejk don't worry chuck it's sorted

[DrFilth]

night naomi try not to think of any rats and if you do hear any scratching just pull the covers up and ignore chuck they will only be after a bit of nosh

[jno]

and they'll be queueing eleven-deep for it... but don't worry, that's not really a queue

[RATTER15]

Naomi, we have two species of rat in this country, black rat (rattus rattus) and the brown rat and the brown rat (rattus norvegicus) the most common everyday rat is the larger of the two, the brown rat. No such species in this country as sewer rat or water rat.

On doing many courses on rats with DEFRA, the subject of giant rats often came up, DEFRA also deny their existence.

If a giant rest has been found it is a species that has been released or escaped. There are bigger rats in other countries.

[DrFilth]

can you get grey rats in this country ?

[DrFilth]

the info gives black rats and brown rats and has a picture of a grey one ?

http://www.pestcontrol.basf.co.uk/agroportal/pc_uk/en/rural_pest_control/pest_facts_rural/rats_rural/rats.html

[RATTER15]

Grey rats are usually the young of the brown rat.

[DrFilth]

thanks for that the young are getting bigger
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO9VMOOYhWQ

[naomi24]

Thanks Ratter. I presume as children in London we called them sewer rats because they came up from the sewers. Those I see in the fields always look a lot smaller though - but maybe that's because I'm bigger now - if that makes sense. ;o)

[RATTER15]

Naomi, I'm sure that is the reason, a bit like wagon wheels, they seem smaller as we get older but apparently the same size as always.

Point of interest: the fancy rat some have as pets is also known as the Brown Rat (rattus norvegicus) it has been bred to produce different colours and hopefully to rid it of some of the many diseases they carry in the wild.

[DrFilth]

even the torygraph have the story

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/10764481/Super-rats-immune-to-poison-growing-as-big-as-cats.html

[venator]

No problem - fine dining is the answer - we can learn from our French friends -

http://bertc.com/subfive/recipes/cookingrats.htm