In total, they collected 320 animals – the majority of them were juvenile and many of them pregnant, Cook said.
FOX:
Woman found living with more than 300 pet rats in her van in upscale San Diego community.
What began with just two pet rats quickly ballooned to more than 300 rodents living inside a van parked near a convenience store in one of San Diego’s more upscale communities.
Now, 140 of those “very social [and] smart” pet rodents are up for adoption.
The San Diego Humane Society said it received a call on Oct. 8 from a woman living in her van near a convenience store in Del Mar, saying that the number of pet rats under her care had gotten out of control and she needed help.
When officials arrived, they immediately noticed that “the situation was significant,” Capt. Danee Cook with the Humane Society’s law enforcement department told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
“They could tell immediately that it was huge amount [of rats],” Cook added. “They were living out of the van, coming and going.”
Videos show the rodents gnawing on the van’s upholstery and engine wire while others hid in door panels and burrowed into the seats.
Cook said the woman was not hoarding the animals and that it was not a case of cruelty, just an owner asking for help after the number got too large. read more
“… the majority of them were juvenile and many of them pregnant”
… as they rushed them off to Planned Petahood
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
They believe it’s inhumane to kill baby rats, so they’ll get adopted while real babies can’t be adopted and must be killed.
They breed faster than rabbits. If you halfheartedly attempt eradication you might end up with more than you started with.
Second smartest animal I have to deal with.
Not counting the get-the-in-laws-out-of-you-hair specials we run during the holidays.
When my sister moved in with me in MN, she had two to four pet rats off and on (they only lived about two years). They are adorable and she took really good care of them. But she only had female rats because she didn’t want to deal with the ramifications of pregnancies.
Their favorite treat was a boiled egg. She would put it in the cage and we would watch them puzzle out how to get into it. Dadof4 is right about how smart they are. The favorite trick of one of the ratties was to roll the egg up a ramp and drop it on their food dish. That made a crack to allow their little paws to get in and, viola, open up the yummy treat.
learn the lessons of a rat paradise … many parallels to today’s society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql_v68hvLlg
Ernest Borgnine WILLARD !
Remember the string of “wild animals
go crazy and attack people” rash of
movies in the 70’s & 80’s ?
She had to be a liberal breeding democrat.
@MJA – some rats did something.
Over and over again.
Maybe she was hoping to start a “Rat in the Box” franchise.
So, that’s where Democrats come from!