I recently moved into a new apartment, and a couple weeks ago I saw a mouse. Nothing like the rat in this picture, though - it was tiny, and simply scurried across the floor. I haven't seen it since.
I picked up some humane traps. But some part of me is like, "It's probably in here because it's cold as fuck outside. Do I really want to dump it out in the frozen woods somewhere?"
I mean, it is what it is, it's a wild animal and surely has ways to adapt. But if I manage to catch it I'm somewhat tempted to take it to a vet and get a cage and just... let it stay inside, warm, fed, but unable to climb into my trash. (Which makes me hope it's a male mouse, because compassionate as I am, I'm not looking to deal with mouse-babies.)
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that's a big ass rat
I would usually use the metric system but here I feel more confident saying it's approximately two feet long without its tail.
How many football fields is that?
Well, an American football field is 100 yards not counting the end zones. There's 3 feet in a yard, so 300ft. 2/300 is roughly 0.0066.
I don't understand why those circles and squiggly lines are.
Can you express that in lengths of a prime time sitcom? It's the only numerical system I understand
Sure, if it was a sitcom episode it would be over before the theme song finished playing. (12 seconds)
Wow that's a big rat!
Like 10-ish times the size of the rat I had as a kid.
An unusually sized rat
Rodents of unusual size? I don't believe they exist
New York sized
Old New York or New New York?
No, I'm! Doesn't.
Damn, a rat that size might as well pay rent.
Or rather this person can stop paying their.
At the very least, comrade Manuel's arrival should've driven local property prices down enough to require proper adjustments to rent costs.
Nono, prices never go down. Don't you capitalism!?
Plot twist. The rat it typing. Manuel is the human
https://xkcd.com/1530/
Do you all like, memorize the link ids for these?
"xkcd spider human typing home row 7"
I love Manuel too
I recently moved into a new apartment, and a couple weeks ago I saw a mouse. Nothing like the rat in this picture, though - it was tiny, and simply scurried across the floor. I haven't seen it since.
I picked up some humane traps. But some part of me is like, "It's probably in here because it's cold as fuck outside. Do I really want to dump it out in the frozen woods somewhere?"
I mean, it is what it is, it's a wild animal and surely has ways to adapt. But if I manage to catch it I'm somewhat tempted to take it to a vet and get a cage and just... let it stay inside, warm, fed, but unable to climb into my trash. (Which makes me hope it's a male mouse, because compassionate as I am, I'm not looking to deal with mouse-babies.)
Rats are great pets. Mice are not. Too many diseases they carry that will mess up your whole life.
It is a concern, which is why a vet visit would be the first thing to do. I bet it’d be expensive though…
Even a vet might not catch every disease that a wild animal might carry.
Wtf how is this not a cat am I getting wooshed
I grew up rurally. I've seen one about the same size. My cat took one look at it, noped out and went back inside.
Big cities have huge rats too
The city I live in isn't big by a long stretch, but we sometimes have otters come into the shops in the summer.
it's probably some rat-adjacent species, like there's the Giant Pouched Rat which looks a lot like this
Téma la taille du rat
2 times is unreasonably funny to me
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