Big Swedish Rat

Hitchens

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26764929

Now that's what you'd call a fine rat!

Alun

However, scientists do believe they could eventually grow into the size of sheep, Dr Jan Zalasiewicz, of the University of Leicester in the UK, recently told the BBC.

:eek:

We had a couple of rats close to that size many years ago when I was a kid. Unfortunately they died somewhere under the floorboards of my parents' bedroom, and we had to rip the floor up to get rid of the smell. The size of small cats they were!

Pumpkinseeds

Sweet divine mother of Jesus, I'm going to have nightmares about that. Years ago I was out walking the dog by the estuary and I saw what I thought was a small dog dragging a big piece of plastic sheeting towards the river bank. It wasn't a dog and my own dog wouldn't let me go near the area until it had gone. Biggest frigging rat I'd ever seen. I still shudder thinking about it.

Hitchens

he must have been fairly old to reach that size but I thought their lifespan was about 2 - 3 years, in the wild anyway