Man Found with 1300 Rats in Apartment

Hobbit

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He apparently started with four unneutered rats.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060630/D8II9GFG0.html

Here's my favorite part of the article. You can't make this crap up.

In 1963, his Culver City apartment was used as a hideout by two of three men who were later convicted of kidnapping Frank Sinatra Jr., son of the legendary Rat Pack crooner. Dier said he later served two prison terms for an unrelated weapons charge and armed robbery.
 
I heard about this on Rush. The story gave me the creeps. I think that rats should not be kept as pets. The reason is that many probably release them or their pups into the wild where they become wild rats and carriers of disease.

It illegal to keep a rat as a pet in Alberta, Canada (which, I believe is a good idea, and I wish more places would follow their example. Rats are a public health menace --- the best rat is a dead one, IMO)

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/prm2579
 

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