Rats.

Chuck Stone

What do you think of rats? Are rats simply vermin or are they great survivors? Rats must be one of the most successful mammals on Earth when it comes to propagation.

Don't some cultures celebrate the Rat? Some people keep rats as pets. Rats were even trained to fly Spitfires and Mustangs against the Nazis during WWII.

Rats, rats, rats - what do the good folks of After Hours think of rats?

Logical_Bear

Atari southern fried rat.

fukking hate them.Use to go looking for them along the dodder when I was young equipped with a black widow cat and a bag of ball bearings.They'd explode if you got a good hit.Very enjoyable:D

HazDanz

I don't like rats. They'll do anything to survive which is not cool.

If Sir David Attenborough does not really like them there must be something up.

NegativeCreep

Rats are scum.

I don't mind them existing as long as they're not anywhere near me!
Now mice are a different story. Lovely little things. Those little brown ones are so cool. Don't like the disease carrying ones you find in you're house though, just the lab rats :L

cruais

If you go up near Mountjoy, you will find plenty of them!

Chuck Stone

Rats are scum.

HazDanz wrote: »

I don't like rats. They'll do anything to survive

Who wouldn't do anything to survive? If you had a litter to feed wouldn't you do anything to survive in the face of adversity?

vicwatson

Rats from the flats

dark crystal

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Rats were even trained to fly Spitfires and Mustangs against the Nazis during WWII.

But...but...

How did their little tiny claws manage to navigate the steering wheel and deploy fire?

If this is actually true, I have even less respect for the Nazi's than I had before. They couldn't even beat a squadron of rats!! Pah :pac:

DEFTLEFTHAND

We line a barrel with concrete and sink our glock ridden rat and his secrets to the sea floor.

gammygils

Rats. I absolutely hate them and fear them.

They're my least favourite rodent

Chuck Stone

Rats are scum.

dark crystal wrote: »

But...but...

How did their little tiny claws manage to navigate the steering wheel and deploy fire?

Stop introducing reason into my fantasies goddammit. :mad:

dark crystal

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Stop introducing reason into my fantasies goddammit. :mad:

Fantasies???

Watch and learn, my friend....watch and learn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcAyd6LokWo

policarp

Bubonic plague, Weals disease, rats are trouble. . .

strobe

Rats are scum.

HazDanz wrote: »

I don't like rats. They'll do anything to survive which is not cool.

Which makes them different to...?

Naomi00

They can surf too..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdbxLk8_C8c

Millicent

Rats are scum.

Rats are really nice pets if cared for correctly. They're also surprisingly smart -- much more than I imagine most people give them credit for.

Useless fact of the day: a rat's squeal is only audible to a human when it's unhappy. When happy, the pitch of the sound made is too high for humans to hear. Some think it's a kind of laughter. That will either be the cutest thing you've ever heard or the creepiest if you think of the fact that rats are secretly laughing at you.

Millicent

Rats are scum.

policarp wrote: »

Bubonic plague ... rats are trouble. . .

Poor rats are still getting the blame for that 700 years later. Nobody ever blames the fleas that actually carried it while piggybacking on the rats. The rats were victims too, dammit.

strobe

Rats are scum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkUmPEPoPSo

Rats are grand. Intelligent, little furry guys making their own way in the world and teaching adolescent mutated turtles how to do ninjutsu... what's not to like?

gammygils

Not forgetting Bob Geldof!!!

starviewadams

Cool pets,really smart and affectionate,easily trained too,sort of like mini dogs.

Don't have a problem with the wild ones as long as they stay away from me and my house.

Millicent

Rats are scum.

strobe wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkUmPEPoPSo

Rats are grand. Intelligent, little furry guys making their own way in the world and teaching mutated turtles how to do ninjutsu... what's not to like?

Exactly. Bet none of the rat-haters would slag off rats to Splinter's face. Keyboard warriors are no match for a rat warrior.

Festy

Great bunch of lads.

Riddle101

I blame my dad for why I dislike rats. He hates them too and it somehow rubbed off on me as well.

We had a rat living in our back garden shed recently. My dog spotted it one night and alerted us to it's presence(Good dog). We set a rat trap with a bit of cooked rasher on it one night and the next day found a dead rat in the trap. Since then we set it up a few other times but didn't catch anything so we assume there are no other rats in our shed.

El Horseboxo

strobe wrote: »

HazDanz wrote: »

I don't like rats. They'll do anything to survive which is not cool.

Which makes them different to...?

Pussies. They'll do fúck all.

Where To

Fooking hate this rat:mad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTOajyzvIjE

Chuck Stone

Rats are scum.

Naomi00 wrote: »

They can surf too.. rats 'surfing'.vid

Looks to me like the poor wee things are trying not to drown.

policarp

Millicent wrote: »

Poor rats are still getting the blame for that 700 years later. Nobody ever blames the fleas that actually carried it while piggybacking on the rats. The rats were victims too, dammit.

What about Weals Disease?

Jimoslimos

policarp wrote: »

What about Weals Disease?

What about the numerous diseases spread through human-to-human contact?

Leave the rats alone.

Paully D

Ratatouille and Stuart Little are sound lads but other than that I can't stand them.

Irish_wolf

Atari southern fried rat.

RATS?! Hairy japanese bastards!


2 pages in and this wasnt posted, shameful stuff

mauzo

Rats are scum.

Rats tails are gross. They dont really bother me, a few of my friends are terrified of them though!

galwayrush

Atari southern fried rat.

Saw one being squashed by a forklift wheel. the area it covered on the ground afterwards was impressive.

Wibbs

Rats are scum.

The thing is for all their great survivor tag if we died out in the morning their population would plummet, even disappear in many places where they live today. They need us basically.

rainbowtrout

Rats are scum.

Human population 7 billion
Rat population 5 billion

http://understandingbignumbers.com/this-planet-has-a-lot-of-rats

We are well capable of spreading plenty of diseases among ourselves without the need to consider picking up diseases from rats.

We tend to use up a lot more of the world's resources too. They don't cause recession, unemployment, poverty or crime. On the whole us humans are probably worse.

Joey the lips

Atari southern fried rat.

I love all animals tbh. I dont kill many. I would let flies out rather than kill them. I figure if i dont have food covered from flies its my own tough.

But rats.....rats are so dangerous. They live in places i leave my ****e and they carry disease that can kill me or my kids.

Tbh i appreciate they only want to survive its not the dirt. Pigs are dirty and i like them. Its the fear of what i may catch from rats.

I hate them and if you want to understand rats just look at what happens when one is cut and the others destroy him.

galwayrush

Atari southern fried rat.

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Human population 7 billion
Rat population 5 billion

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Hmm, Soylent rat green could help feed us.

Splendour

A river runs at the bottom of my garden so naturally there are going to be rats around and the odd time I'll see one burrowing away in my compost bin but we have this understanding going on- I don't bother them and they don't bother me.

Grayson

Rats are scum.

gammygils wrote: »

Rats. I absolutely hate them and fear them.

They're my least favourite rodent

And that post was liked by "le la rat"

I like rats. Always wanted a white one as a pet. far smarter and interactive than a fecking rabbit.

As other said, they can be dangerous. But so is almost every single wild animal. There a loads of diseases on birds for example.

Duggy747

Rats are scum.

Rats are deadly smart little fùckers.

I have a pair of Degus, never thought I'd end up with pets like them but they're savage pets. Very smart and friendly little buggers with the two of them having different personalities to each other. (One of them goes nuts for toilet paper while the other likes play with things like strings)

I don't bother spreading out the new hay in their cage whenever I'm changing it anymore, just dump a few lumps in and they arrange the cage to how they like it

I mean, how could you hate this face? :pac:

Splendour

Duggy747 wrote: »

Rats are deadly smart little fùckers.

I have a pair of Degus, never thought I'd end up with pets like them but they're savage pets. Very smart and friendly little buggers with the two of them having different personalities to each other. (One of them goes nuts for toilet paper while the other likes play with things like strings)

I don't bother spreading out the new hay in their cage whenever I'm changing it anymore, just dump a few lumps in and they arrange the cage to how they like it

I mean, how could you hate this face? :pac:

My brother has 3 Degu's and I must say they are pretty cute. They're very fast creatures and quite shy.

Jester252

Atari southern fried rat.

I kill them anyway I can

Millicent

Rats are scum.

policarp wrote: »

What about Weals Disease?

Carried by loads of different animals, says Wiki. (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptospirosis#section_1) I'm not saying go out and lick a wild rat but not to blame them for every disease.

Cú Giobach

Rats are scum.

Splendour wrote: »

A river runs at the bottom of my garden so naturally there are going to be rats around and the odd time I'll see one burrowing away in my compost bin but we have this understanding going on- I don't bother them and they don't bother me.

Similar situation here, to me they're just part of the local wildlife like the cute little bunnies or the baby foxes frollicing in the fields.
As for entering my house, if I stuck my hand into a rats nest it would bite me, and if one enters my nest I'll bite it (figuratively speaking of course).

I had one stuck under my kitchen cupboards a few years ago for a week, I couldn't get my hands on a rat trap and a mouse one would have been too cruel (and I believe no animal deserves the death rat poison gives). Being mid-summer and very hot weather I couldn't stand the thought of something dying of thirst in my house so I even stuck a saucer of water under there for it .
Eventually my dogs caught it and dispatched it quickly, it had to be done but I still felt sorry for the poor little thing.