roadkill Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Just been reading my focus magazine and in next months issue there doing a bit about super rats.... It says there half a metre long , immune to poison and can gnaw their way through concrete.... Its out on the 21st of December 2006 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirky640 Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 bull poo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiercel Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 Nutria Myocaster coypus Someone has seen a Coypu and mistaken it for a rat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darebear Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 well, couldnt a rat be that long if it included its tail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiercel Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 well, couldnt a rat be that long if it included its tail? Sorry no!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benelli 1 Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Hi Although it sounds like ******** i would say that it is possible for a rat to get to that length.What you have to remember is that the tail is included in the sizing of a rat and sometimes the tail can be nearly twice as long as the rat itself. I have caught and shot many rats in and around the buildings on my farm and i have seen some biggins in my time. But the biggest rat by far i have ever seen in my life was caught by myself on my farm about 3 years ago. There had been rats feeding off the scraps that i was feeding to my dogs for along time so i put down some pellets which over the course of the next few days killed them off, I thought!. There was still food being taken so i located the main rat borrow into the doghouse and set a trap. When i checked it first thing in the mornin i could not believe my eyes. This thing looked massive to me so i picked up the whole trap and took it to show my father. When we released it on the floor a quick measure with the tape showed from nose to tail tip it was 18 inches long . Since then i have never caught a rat nowhere near aslong as that. Most of them nowadays that i catch measure anywhere between 9 and thirteen inch. If only i had taken a pic of that massive sod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadkill Posted December 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 cant see it being bullcrap as its in focus which is a science and technology magazine.... will make good reading im sure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njc110381 Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Sounds interesting. Maybe a good oppertunity for shooters too? They may be immune to poison, but I bet my S200 would slow it down a bit! Failing that, there's always the 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cranfield Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 cant see it being bullcrap as its in focus which is a science and technology magazine.... will make good reading im sure I strongly recommend you get some back copies of New Scientist and Technology Tomorrow and read some of the stuff they were claiming 10-20 years ago. It would destroy your faith in "science and technology" magazines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnclassic Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 This is what they are on about now - http://www.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1875806,00.html Back in the seventies I used to shoot rats on a farm outside Newcastle, the largest shot measured 26" from tip of nose to tip of tail. This was when a big scare was on about super rats and Leptospirosis (Weils disease) which a local vet died of. It was no fairy tale! There was (may still be, its years since Ive been down there) a dump in an old quarry at Harlow Hill that was crammed with the *******. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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