Rats can make their homes in the most filthy parts of any city, the sewers. Here are some things that you may not know about these rats.
1. We are vaccinating rats by feeding them rat poison that doesn’t kill them but actually helps them mutate to be poison resistant.
2. A female rat gives birth to over 81 mischief (babies) a year.
3. Sewer rats survived atomic bomb tests in the 1940s.
4. Sewer rats can damage the foundation of buildings by digging their burrows.
5. Sewer rats can sense danger – so they will try to escape, lie low and return when it is safe.
6. They practice their own population control by eating young or weaker rats.
7. They eat only eat 10% of their body weight at any meal and hoard food in their underground burrows.
8. They can gnaw through plastic pipes, irrigation systems, garbage cans, wood boxes, dry wall, and even concrete.
9. Rats make their nests on the debris you flush down the toilet
10. As well as swimming and burrowing, rats can climb up vertical walls if the surface isn’t too smooth.
11. At any given time, you probably aren’t more then six feet away from a rat.
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