giant rat

jap gt

just came across this, the thing is huge

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Strange-News/Rat-Giant-Rodent-Shot-Dead-On-Bradford-Estate-Creature-Could-Be-Descendent-Of-Coypu-Species/Article/201008315696471?f=rss

virminhunter

i'm lost for words, I can't believe the size of it...:eek:

kildare.17hmr

sounds like a fun sport, urban giant rat stalking with air rifles

previous user

:eek:, that reminds me of the Novel 'The Rats' by James Herbert, about rats the size of dogs
devouring people in London, seems like fiction is coming to life,
shudder.

greenpeter

:eek::eek::eek: dont think i'd be after them with a air-rifle more a .22 job

virminhunter

its master splinter...:D

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Tackleberrywho

greenpeter wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: dont think i'd be after them with a air-rifle more a .22 job

More a .223 job ya mean 30" Rat with a pellet gun, I don't think so!
That is as big as a small fox!

homerhop

Wasn't there a new species of rat found in Papua New Guinea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8210000/8210394.stm

elius

Dirty Fookers nothing better than shooting them with the 4/10

yessam

Do you think could they be driven out with dogs and shoot them with shot guns..some crack - would'nt it

Eddie B

COYPU me thinks!!!!!;);)

bazza888

just saw an episode of the really bad steven seagal lawman show from louisianna where hes a deputy sheriff,they were killing coypu in the levees as they bore huge holes into them which usually makes the levee burst.they went out with the swat team shooting them with .22s with mods on(as cars drove along the top of the levve they were firing at the coypu)The coypu looked very like whats in the ops picture

Grizzly 45

We have had them here for years in Dublin and Limerick.
Known as Chavus Scumbaggius,with the lesser breeds common to Limerick,known as Dundonious Mac Carthyium.which seems to have subdued the lesser breeds of vermin known as the Collopyious Keanus and the Ryanus
Easily recognised by their mating calls of "ComeireIluveya!" or "GotaanydrugsforsaleBud?" or "paythefukup orwell break yourhead"
they are found in the poorer areas of of the city and in the city centre in droves on any Sat night.Also found infesting our countries jails too
Quite aggressive and prone to attack when cornerd.Usually issuing a hissing cry of "illfukkingstabthekointsoiwill" or "comeheresoicanshootya ya koint"before they do.
Best caliber for disposing of them.7.62X39 FMJ,and lots of it deliverd at full auto.40mm HE/FRAG rounds from an M16/M203 are reported to be quite sucessful too.:D

dicky82

biggest rats ive ever seen were in venice. huge.
and before ya say it no they werent the ones on the gondillas.;)

Eddie B

bazza888 wrote: »

just saw an episode of the really bad steven seagal lawman show from louisianna where hes a deputy sheriff,they were killing coypu in the levees as they bore huge holes into them which usually makes the levee burst.they went out with the swat team shooting them with .22s with mods on(as cars drove along the top of the levve they were firing at the coypu)The coypu looked very like whats in the ops picture

I know a lad on another forum who digs them out with terriers in France!
There as big, and as ugly,as that yoke in the link!!

Grizzly 45

"Hairy Japanese Bast**ds" as Fr Jack Hackett was wont to say on the m atter.:D

kay 9

As long as a bulldog not including the tail, feckin hell, they could be snared:pac:

vixdname

Jaysus thats one big F*****g rat !!! The last time I saw one that big, he was standing in front of a microphone in the Dáil, I think his name was Brian !!!

mac80

I remember about 10 years ago my oul fella was gettin a site cleared and got some contractors in to knock the old house which was next to a river.

As they began work on it they saw dozens and dozens of rats some of them apparently massive and no afraid of humans either.
The contractor walked off the job and never came back, he had to get another firm in to finish it. Apparently they were different to normal rats :rolleyes: he still calls them "Water rats" but I dont think there is a different species to my knowledge.

As a lad i remember going down to a local grain store and seeing literally hundred of rats in the yard, they woould all run when you drove up and when they did it made a very creepy sound :eek::eek:

Listen to the noise of this rat freeky :eek::eek: I hate the things, wish I had an air rifle for hunting them

mac80

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-YgAGSojc

Tackleberrywho

When we were kids their was a dump a couple of miles from the house.

We often drove there in the evening, the father would tell us to be quiet in the car. Ligts engine off.

Then he would turn on the lights and rats everywhere.

During the day people would be searching through the dump for stuff!

I could never understand how The amount of rats had to be in the thousands as it was ~ 40 acres of filth!

Grizzly 45

Ok it is a rat that your man was trying to kill.But still,FFS!Do it quick!No need to torture the critter either.Bit fukwitted doing that with a rat too,getting that close one bite from them..Hello Weils disease!

Tack you were lucky.
A couple of miles??we had Limerick dump X2 literally a mile from our front door,and a horrendous rat problem.Thanks to Limercik corporation D"&ck heads and indifferent Clare politicans :mad:for about 35 years.
Used to be able to shoot at a little stream that ran into the Shannon,with all the water runoff from the old dump and its delightful soupcon of pollution into the Shannon river,and into Limerick citys drinking water....But we digress.:rolleyes:.There were literally hundreds of rats using this waterway as a rat superhighway..:eek:.I think my best weekend was 140 with a .22
Yes,we had whole clans of people rummaging and making quite a good living out of the Limerick tip:eek::eek:

jap gt

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Ok it is a rat that your man was trying to kill.But still,FFS!Do it quick!No need to torture the critter either.Bit fukwitted doing that with a rat too,getting that close one bite from them..Hello Weils disease!

going of topic here, but im just curious, is weils disease not from rats piss, i though it was

Grizzly 45

You are right 100% Jap.
But still,God alone knows what other ****e a bite from one of those will give you.

jap gt

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

You are right 100% Jap.
But still,God alone knows what other ****e a bite from one of those will give you.

there was a story around here about a man that had a rat run up the leg of his pants, apparently the rat bit him and then pissed on the bite, i dunno how true it is but he died anyway APPARENTLY

them bastards must be crawling with disease

Grizzly 45

Could well belive it about them running up your pants leg,as they WILL bolt for any hole or escape route.Hence tucking your pants legs into the boots, if they are lace up or over the wellies is completely mandatory when up close and personal with them.

homerhop

friend had a terrier that spend his day hunting them around the yard, the terrier got a bite off one and he went blind from it

jap gt

i always have the wellies on when around them, spent last few years around farm yards you learn quick where the rats are

jap gt

homerhop wrote: »

friend had a terrier that spend his day hunting them around the yard, the terrier got a bite off one and he went blind from it

they killed hens belonging to my neighbour a bit ago, he said he thinks they were pissing in the water/food

who what when

Used to have a dog (Cocker Spaniel) who was unbelievable at catching rats, id say somewhere around 250 in her fairly short life.

She'd spot them from 50 yards, manouver herself down wind, sneak up to about 8 yards away and then pounce. Whole process often took over half an hour in which time the rat would have gone into and come out of its den maybe a dozen times.

It was really amazing to watch and the strangest thing is im the only one who ever saw it. Any time i ever brought someone else along she never caught one.

Often wondered was it instinct or intelligence. Lovely dog, miss her now.

landkeeper

jeez lads they are only rats 15 yrs ago we used to drive to tuam municipal dump out in the middle of the bog on a friday evening after work and it was a 2 hr drive in those days taking a team of terriers with us ,with every lamp and spare battery we had :eek: lamp rats with terriers and hurls till it either got light or we ran out of juice we never ran out of rats and we'd get into the 200s most times
ah those were the days and yes trousers in the wellies

Eddie B

landkeeper wrote: »

jeez lads they are only rats 15 yrs ago we used to drive to tuam municipal dump out in the middle of the bog on a friday evening after work and it was a 2 hr drive in those days taking a team of terriers with us ,with every lamp and spare battery we had :eek: lamp rats with terriers and hurls till it either got light or we ran out of juice we never ran out of rats and we'd get into the 200s most times
ah those were the days and yes trousers in the wellies

Heaven!!!!!:D

marlin vs

It's a coypu, iv'e seen them hunted in france.Here's a picture I came across on another forum.

virminhunter

thats a patterdale in the picture is it?

Eddie B

virminhunter wrote: »

thats a patterdale in the picture is it?

Thats right!!!;)

landkeeper

no such thing as a patterdale terrier they are all fell terriers :cool:

Tackleberrywho

landkeeper wrote: »

no such thing as a patterdale terrier they are all fell terriers :cool:

Wikipedia

This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. (April 2008)
Patterdale Terrier

Black and tan Patterdale.
Country of origin England
[hide]Traits
[show]Classification and standards
Notes
The Patterdale Terrier is recognised by the American Rare Breed Association
Dog (Canis lupus familiaris)
The Patterdale Terrier is a breed of working dog that originated in the Lake District of Cumbria in Northwest England.[1] The name Patterdale refers to a small village a little south of Ullswater and a few miles east of Helvellyn.[2]
The Patterdale is a type of Fell Terrier. The Patterdale terrier was "improved" and brought into the Kennel Club as the Welsh Terrier after a brief naming struggle in which the name "Old English Broken-coated Terrier" was attempted before being rejected by the Kennel Club hierarchy. The Patterdale Terrier is sometimes called the "Old English Terrier" or the "Fell Terrier".

Either way, it's a big frickin rat!

Stanleyp

Back in 2003 I was working in London. Walkin home the mile or so from work to hotel one evening I saw a dog running along side me on the footpath. I took a closer look and it was a friggin rat the size of an adult cocker spaniel. Ive never seen anything as horrific before or since. Not one bit afraid of me. This was in the Wembley area, they were just knocking the stadium and I put it down to the disturbance of the site, but now I just think thats the size of them in London. It has scarred me!:):)

virminhunter

they got another one in linconshire, terrier men all over the uk must be drooling in anticipation...:D
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3104027/Gnaws-II-Giant-rat-caught-in-Lincoln.html

johngalway

You'd need a big Fenn trap for that.

palo

That makes me think five things standing20ft= Alphamax BB,Bakial mp153 full choke

elius

Sick i worked at market gardening and the fookers use to be nesting under crops in the drills. I really really hate them. Poison going down tomorrow :(:(

mac80

"The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs yesterday revealed there had been 11 possible sightings of coypus in Britain in the past decade, though they were "inconclusive".

But Leeds businessman Steve Luya, 55, who lived in Nigeria for years, insisted our picture showed an African Greater Cane Rat that had escaped after being imported.

A pair of rats can produce 3,000 offspring a year. The rodents are known to carry 40 diseases including plague"

landkeeper

rats are great sport , and vastly underated as a sporting quarry if even on a small scale , even the antis turn a blind eye to rat hunting
you can shoot them
snare them
trap them
ferret them
lamp them
they are great for teaching a young lad with an air gun ,they are clever adaptable and as a species indestructable , some of my best memories are of good days spent ratting with some of my good mates over the years
as one man said after the nuclear holocaust the rat will come crawling out of the rubble and start to eat ;)natures born survivor rock on ratty

mac80

I remember sitting on our shed roof with an air rifle picking the wee fecker off. They used to squeal like hell, edventually they would eat the dead ones

virminhunter

It definatly looks like one of them coypu's, a wild population of them in the wild! their there to stay, yad never wipe out something like that.

tiny-nioclas

Got this fella yesterday morning, hes no coypu