Yep, they were huge where I'm from (city used to have a rat problem, before the skunks moved in; at which time the city decided it was best to just live-trap and rabies-shot the skunks and let them handle the rats. They're territorial, so would keep out unvaxxed rural skunks.)

And rats are smarter than chihuahuas. Hell, I'm not entirely sure that NYC rats haven't figured out how to use electrical fires for to herd humans. It would be interesting to see if rat-caused fires don't happen more often in places with lots of food. But then, you'd expect rats to be where the food is, so. The point is, it's a way to clear out the humans while they collect what they can. Kind of like hunter-gatherer humans setting fires to the woods to flush out whatever they can catch.

Yep, they were huge where I'm from (city used to have a rat problem, before the skunks moved in; at which time the city decided it was best to just live-trap and rabies-shot the skunks and let them handle the rats. They're territorial, so would keep out unvaxxed rural skunks.)

And rats are smarter than chihuahuas. Hell, I'm not entirely sure that NYC rats haven't figured out how to use electrical fires for to herd humans. It would be interesting to see if rat-caused fires don't happen more often in places with lots of food. But then, you'd expect rats to be where the food is, so.

Yep, they were huge where I'm from (city used to have a rat problem, before the skunks moved in; at which time the city decided it was best to just live-trap and rabies-shot the skunks and let them handle the rats. They're territorial, so would keep out unvaxxed rural skunks.)

And rats are smarter than chihuahuas. Hell, I'm not entirely sure that NYC rats haven't figured out how to use electrical fires for to herd humans. It would be interesting to see if rat-caused fires don't happen more often in places with lots of food.