tomc601 Loc: Gilbert, AZ

Thankfully, they don't like the desert. We only have to deal with scorpions.

M1911 Loc: DFW Metromess

I saw a room full of rats once. It was at the State of the Union address.

josquin1 Loc: Massachusetts

Sitting in NY's Central Park at the Lennon Memorial I just watched the rats parade around with no fear. After awhile I got used to watching them crossing the paths.

josquin1 Loc: Massachusetts

Yes but the prairie dogs are having a huge outbreak of the Plague.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

That goes back to the Middle Ages. Rats traveled with the sailors and got off at all the ports.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

A woman has a video on YouTube showing her two pet rats - not the gray (Norwegian?) kind. These are "pretty" - white, tan, and gray. They're very cute and they like attention, but I still wouldn't feel comfortable with rats running around the house.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

They are idiots. San Antonio Texas has one of the largest rat problems in the US. At night, get a flash light, high beam type and go down along SA River Walk, point it up the drainage ports under the bridges along the river walk, count the eyes and divide by two and you will see the volume of these just out of reach. The San Antonio River is over run by rats and we just got our first cold front, so in they will come. If you want to rid your building/home of rats, mice and cockroaches, a female cat that has had a litter (yes, get her neutered). I have two cats, always have for my building, yearround, no rats in my building. O live right across from the San Antonio River, part of the River Walk. These are the brown rat types, carrier of bubonic plague and other nasty things. And stay out of that crawl space because the dust from their feces can kill you, more filth. The only good rat is a dead rat.

If you don't like cats but know someone who has a male cat, ask for the cats litter box and put that in your attic, the male cat urine drives the rats and mice away, that cat urine smell, but you won't smell it in your house.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

Maybe someone should synthesize that smell and it could be sprayed in the attic and around the door jambs. If you sprayed it outside the door it wouldn't bother you inside but you might have to re-treat it after a rain.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Thanks. Good to know. We've had mice here over the years, but never rats.

Jack47 Loc: Ontario

That was a rat from NY…….on vacation😄😄😄

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

Yes, they recently have moved in, trying to take over!

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Is there some way that we can train the rats to eat bedbugs? Wouldn't that be wonderful!!??

LDB415 Loc: Houston south suburb

Interesting, and all have something in common. There may be a link besides the name similarity.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

We never saw a rat as long as we had our indoor/outdoor cat. After we lost him we had to start plugging up all the holes we never thought we had.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Yep. They seem to congregate in the cities. Or pretend to be home builders.