Are you afraid of rats?

More so the human kind.

Yes I'm afraid

It's when you lift up a bag of feed or move a pallet and a fucker will shoot out of nowhere , that always makes me jump. It's the tails especially which I hate

Nothing to fear:

Rat's are 'vermin' in that they carry disease. It's a natural thing to be afraid of vermin, it's in-built.

hate 'em. I'd throw them into room 101 if i could,

No, not really unless they're about to invade my personal space. I did murder one once that had got into the house with a sweeping brush.

Don't like them but working in agriculture and poultry i got used to them. I love that idea of the pipe into the box shown above. True saying, like a rat up a drainpipe 😉

We did have a problem until our Jack Russell went into full combat mode one weekend.

He killed three out in the open and then dug his way in under a shed , took him an afternoon to get and kill that rat.

I have a healthy respect for them. Lost a bit of that respect after watching them blindly going into that trap though. Idiots.

Same here. They're a little harder, although not impossible, to milk though.

In thailand they are the size of cats. normal sized rats I can handle, the thailand ones scared the **** out of me.

How does that make them vicious?

A cornered animal means it's under attack so it's natural it attacks.

'Do you remember,' said O'Brien, 'the moment of panic that used to occur in your dreams? There was a wall of blackness in front of you, and a roaring sound in your ears. There was something terrible on the other side of the wall. You knew that you knew what it was, but you dared not drag it into the open. It was the rats that were on the other side of the wall.'

I think with many of those SE Asian cities by the way they're built with plenty places rats can hide and the culture that rats are tolerated they're just not bothered anymore. People set up pop up restaurants with plastic seats and tables on the pavements and rats scurrying around in the background.

They'll kill things that are a direct threat alright, saw a Thai lady take off her flip flop and whack a scorpion to death that got a bit too close for comfort in a situ where a Western woman would just run away screaming. Fair play I thought.

Only a month ago i was having Dinner and caught something moving out of the corner of my eye,

The back door of the house is one giant glass sliding door, I was convinced it was a rat running across one side to the other, , the missus said i was going mad, Then the next day at lunch i seen it again & then later in the evening , making the same run ,

They had eaten a hole in the shed & where running back and forth, I don't mind them but with kids in the garden i wasn't taking any chances ,

I'm not scared of them but id gladly never come across one again but its silly not to deal wit something that carries disease

I caught two of them within 3 hours of putting a trap down, I think i got them all no sign of any since,