How big can a NYC rat get?

Deb1010yetagain · ‎12-09-2013

About a pound and a half. YIKES!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-york-city-biggest-rat-matthew-combs_us_56e6c7a4e4b0b25c91826...

MaggieMack · ‎10-01-2014

If you have a couple of cats, they won't get that big!

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

Irshgrl31201 · ‎03-18-2010

I had a good friend whose husband used to work for the Buffalo Sewer Authority, the stories he would tell me. We have a Cheerios factory right by the water where the ships used to bring in the grain through Lake Erie. He told me those rats around that area could get up to 10-13 lbs. They used to have the guys put industrial rubber bands around their pant legs when they would unload the boats and guys used to shoot BB guns at them to kill them they were such a nuisance.

One night we were driving home from dinner down town and drove right past there. The guy I was with pointed at about 6 HUGE rats. They were larger than my cat.

It still grosses me out when I think about it. Ewww!

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september · ‎03-09-2010

Ugh..my well fed, adult male cat weighs just over 11 pounds. I can't picture a rodent that weighs more than him!

Deb1010yetagain · ‎12-09-2013

@september wrote:
Ugh..my well fed, adult male cat weighs just over 11 pounds. I can't picture a rodent that weighs more than him!

me neither.

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

That is SO gross I won't even go there!

Ane1Care · ‎05-16-2010

@Deb1010yetagain Saddly the one in the photo is about half the size of the local "field" rats, I use quote because I'm in a small mountain "downtown" with no fields around me for miles. Their bodies are way bigger than a squirrel, tail longer than the body. Then with all the rivers, streams, lakes, and ponds around you have coypu / nutria / river rats, which look like a beaver with a long rat / opposum tail. They can be huge, think over fed older housecat.

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