9 Pound Rat Invades Florida!!!

[Hellgate]

I think world hunger can be solved, it's gotta taste better than pink slime...

Giant, nine-pound Gambian rats invading Florida Keys | The Sideshow - Yahoo! News

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[packnrat]

all the more reason to have a high powered rifle (and lots of ammo) with you on a hike.


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[va_rider]

That's not so big.... it's nowhere near the size of the nutria rats all over Louisiana and Mississippi...

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[pjspin0331]

doesn't florida already have a problem with snakes? Now a rat problem? rats to feed the snakes to make said snakes bigger? oh boy

 

[scottyd]

What about the monitor lizards? surely they could eat all the rats....

 

[thepopularjock]

doesn't florida already have a problem with snakes? Now a rat problem? rats to feed the snakes to make said snakes bigger? oh boy

Now that is interesting.
I lived in Florida for a year and the reports are true! There are all kinds of pythons and big ass snakes everywhere! Even the Iguanas get to be HUGE!!! Throw in more alligators than you can shake a stick at ............. I don't know if those rats are going to be around that long. LOL

 

[RI_Grinch]

That is nothing!! I will try to get some pics of the Wharf rats we have here. They get close to about 30lbs or so. That's no stretch of the truth either. I have actually seen one chase a dog off the docks where they live. A buddy of mine used to work at the restaurant where they live and he would go and shoot them with a .22 rifle and scare them off. Needless to say he shot one of them one day and it had NO effect on it. These are the king of rats around here.

 

[jnor]

Yet another reason not to live there........I moved out of that state, and never looked back !!!!!