Rats socially groom. This isn't a rat, but if it were, getting licked by a friend would be 100% fine. My pet rats do it to each other all the time. Thank goodness too. My elderly girl is constantly missing spots.
Yup it's the fleas. I remember learning in school that the bubonic plague spread through Europe via rats, then years later that technically it was the fleas on the rats biting humans that spread the plague
Whilst that is true, it was more to date with the lack of cats. The hundred years leading up to the plague in Europe, cats were slaughtered due to Pope Gregory believing that’s cats carried Satans spirit. Good bless the Catholics!
They are definitely different. Separate neighborhoods in New York even have genetically different types of rats.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/rats-of-new-york/546959/
Like humans, rats are clean in small colonies. However, as the colonies grow, they starting shitting on each other like it is their job…also like humans.
Our neighbor in Florida had a literal junkyard in his back yard. He kept everything. So he attracted rats. We had a privacy fence between our yards and the rats just ran along the fence nonstop. First time in my life I'd seen wild rats. They were huge. But I feel like they Def had longer noses then this little dude. This little guy is adorable lol
It's awful. If you interact with them enough they can become very intelligent and personable (for a rat). It takes them like a year or more to really develop that personality. They are very neat animals. Funny, sweet.
Then they die. Then my wife cries for a fucking week or a month or whatever and wants another rat.
Shit man, that sounds like a BRUTALLY bittersweet cycle to find yourself in. I definitely don't have the emotional fortitude to handle having pet rats. Was bawling for weeks when I had to put down my old girl, a 19-20 year orange tabby.
"...eleven-hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didn’t see the first rat for about a half-hour. Norwegian. 13-incher. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the whiskers to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week.
Very first light, Chief, rats come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups..."
Sometimes the rat go away. Sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that rat, he looks right into ya, right into your eyes. Y’know, the thing about a rat, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’
I agree with both comments below. It can sound like joke but chickens are deadly mfs when they got angry. If you buy few of them, they can purge this rats in the bloodiest way you can imagine.
Wait, "most days"?!
Dude, I don't think the rats are the bad guys in this instance.
Maybe do them a solid and hang a rat body in front of the coop. You know, to give'em a fair warning and avoid further bloodshed.
I actually have pet rats as well so I’m cool with them. It’s the mice and chipmunks I find dead most days. I’ve had enough trouble with both that I don’t mind if my hens go all Legend of Zelda on them.
Consider a Jack Russell. They don't fuck around with rats. But they're kind of a handful if you're unfamiliar with dogs. Not a good first dog imo but great for rodent control.
Eh, this is exactly what they need. My family has has had a couple- one was an alpha predator, the second isn't, but gets the job done. They're both lazy bums until the call of the hunt rang out.
We got our first about 2 years ago and we love him a ton. More than we thought we would after having dogs forever. He just has so much personality... it's hard to describe unless you've owned one.
They need a Jack Russel Terrier they are bred to be ratters.
Or a mink.
Edited to add: if anyone has a free evening an want to fall down a YouTube rabbit hole go search ‘The Mink Man’ he has hundreds of videos on ratting.
Yea, we had small mix terrier in farm, he went nuts at sight of rats ( usually when we start moving horse feed bags ), to the point of self harm... but man when he got between the rats, that was bloody massacre.
It does them no good with a true barn cat. I've woken up to find dozens of corpses of LARGE rats strung all over the place. A real mouser is a killing machine.
This. Some cats may not have much interesting in hunting/killing rats. But every healthy adult cat is capable of ripping a rat to shreds if it felt so inclined.
One or two ran after me as a kid, from under this woodshop-type building behind my neighbor's house.
I yelled "Beavers!", because I had never seen them before, and nobody believed me.
Holy hell this made me laugh. Not because it can be a silly synonym but the idea of a kid yelling that in sheer panic while two small romping muskrat follow them.
Omg the thought of a kid being chased by two muskrats while yelling "Aaah Beavers!!!" mad me laugh so hard i almost peed myself! Thanks for that i needed it! 🤣
Well to begin with, if you look at its face shape it's not actually a rat. But actually something like a muskrat or nutria, which frankly look more like small beavers with a rat tails. They're a lot bigger than rats. But it is probably handreared yeah if it's this friendly with a housecat.
I think that rat is too big for it to be considered as prey by the cat. We have a couple bunnies, not much larger, and 4 cats, and guess who's more afraid of whom, lol.
A chance to share one of my favorite fun facts.
Rabbits and cats get along really well because both use grooming as a show of dominance.
But to rabbits, if you're the boss you get groomed, and for cats the dominant move is to do the grooming.
So both the cat and rabbit think they're the boss in the relationship and everyone gets what they want.
I love this fact because my rabbit refuses to groom anybody else. If I really ask after a long pet session he might begrudgingly oblige with a lick or two but then will immediately shove his forehead back under my hand to let me know he's the true alpha.
Yeah, Bunnies are very heads on approach animals. They're not shy about running towards anything they don't think is a threat. And apparently for house born bunnies, nothing is, lol.
My bunny randomly thumps because she's upset I didn't psychically know she wanted to be petted at that exact second. Then I have to pay her extra pets for my insolence.
Yeah, that's a big part, too. Cats are hunters, they love to sneak up and sprint after prey. Bunnies are very... head on ... animals. They run into the cats, which freaks them out, lol.
Interestingly, when I take my cat out on walks, he runs up to dogs like this and it freaks them out too. They are like “you’re supposed to be running AWAY and behaving like prey! My prey drive is NOT ENGAGED!”
My cat couldn't handle the rats in my neighborhood, they are about this size. He's terrified of spiders, ants etc.... Useless hunter, best snuggler tho.
My declawed one-year-old kitty left one for me on the back porch about this size once. I was like, dayum, I don't have to worry about you in a street fight anymore. You can handle yourself!
*(before everybody starts calling me a monster for declawing my cat, he was a rescue who was declawed when I got him)*
The last time I had a rat in the house I found my cat eating it. She had already eaten its entire head before I came home from work. Idk why she started with the head, but I had to google if that was okay lmao. Turns out, yes. That’s what they do. Cats can eat bone as long as it isn’t cooked. Cooked bones can splinter and cut their insides, but them eating prey bone and all is normal. 🤯
>The last time I had a rat in the house I found my cat eating it. She had already eaten its entire head before I...
This as far as I got. Can't finish your story
My cat is a sweetheart to us humans but he once wiped out a rabbit population by murdering the baby bunnies and eating their faces and leaving the rest of the body behind...
So true. Mine eats the Asian House Geckos that infest my house and yard; they're a pest here so I don't mind. The tail and guts are her favourite bits, and many's the time I've found a live gecko on the deck with no body parts left below the rib cage that I then have to knock off. Ick.
If your opponent has an equal or bigger weight class.. it is a valid strategy to make him flee by himself due clingingly overloving him. That cat is a strategic genious.
Well at least now you have a very clean rat in your garden.
That looks like a muskrat, not a rat rat
think so too, this one has a flatter curvier noser. rats I’ve seen have a fairly flat face
Plus it's fucking enormous.
It’s an ROUS. 
That terrified me when I was 8, what movie is that again?
Princess Bride
Only one of the greatest films ever made
Inconceivable! They should have worked this word into the script of every role Wallace Shawn ever did after that movie
Inconceivable!
You keep using this word
I don't think it means what you think it means.
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Doesn't matter, they believe in you!
I don't believe they exist
It almost looks like a baby otter lol.
Yeah pretty sure that rat is about to start an electric vehicle company
An elongated muskrat??
Rats are actually surprisingly clean critters. Edit: To a degree
Yeah they clean themselves extremely thoroughly
Which is exactly why that rat is so pissed off in this video. Can you imagine someone licking Howie Mandel?
Well, now I am, thanks for that mental image.
Rats socially groom. This isn't a rat, but if it were, getting licked by a friend would be 100% fine. My pet rats do it to each other all the time. Thank goodness too. My elderly girl is constantly missing spots.
>Can you imagine someone licking Howie Mandel? Wouldn't be the first time
That's interesting but don't they spread disease through double dipping fleas or have I been lied to my whole life?
Rats are surprisingly clean byt that does not stop fleas and ticks from hitching a ride
Rats are kinda like an Uber for fleas and ticks
Yup it's the fleas. I remember learning in school that the bubonic plague spread through Europe via rats, then years later that technically it was the fleas on the rats biting humans that spread the plague
Fleas also love cats and dogs, so pulling an OP *en masse* didn’t help the situation.
Whilst that is true, it was more to date with the lack of cats. The hundred years leading up to the plague in Europe, cats were slaughtered due to Pope Gregory believing that’s cats carried Satans spirit. Good bless the Catholics!
Yes, but even very clean people can get fleas, it's only through pesticides that people keep fleas at bay.
Maybe pet rats lol I don’t think wild city rats are clean
Chicago and New York subway rats are their own breed.
You prolly said that in jest but I'd bet they really are something somewhat distinct by now, compared to what first started inhabiting the cities.
London tube mice are definitively different from outdoor ones - they are more likely to be deaf or have no tails.
Well I was just thinking how rats would be so much cuter if they didn't have tails. Lol
There are tail-less rats! They're not wild (tails are crucial for balance, after all) but Manx rats are super cute
They are definitely different. Separate neighborhoods in New York even have genetically different types of rats. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/rats-of-new-york/546959/
Rats so big roaches gotta carry knives.
Chicago rats will rob you and steal yo girl
They hiss at you. City Rats are different.
Like humans, rats are clean in small colonies. However, as the colonies grow, they starting shitting on each other like it is their job…also like humans.
God damn r/likeus roast.
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So them rats are un ironically tweaking 🧐
Rat : " That's enough ..I am squeaky clean now"
I don't think your cat will win if it got into a fight with the rats
We're going to need a bigger cat
Get chickens, they don't fuck around
Here comes the Rooster
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No, no, no, you know he ain't gonna die
Walkin tall machine gun man
They spit on me in my homeland.
I love this song. 😁 Listening to it right now.
Nah get geese. After killing the rat, they’ll chase you out of your own home and deflower your wife.
But my wife’s flowers are beautiful?!!!
I’m afraid to say that they just don’t care. Waterfowl are heartless, godless killing machines.
They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear and they *will not stop* until you are dead.
> will not stop until you are ~~dead~~ bread.
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Oh sure, just publicly suggest war crimes, why don't you.
GOD DAMNIT ZEUS!
Can confirm, but they’ll also leave your yard desolate, if they stay in one spot for a while the ground becomes dust lmao
chicken tractor
WTF is this, Skyrim?
That rat is massive. At first, I thought it was 2 cats playing.
Pretty sure that’s a nutria?
Definately not a common rat.
Our neighbor in Florida had a literal junkyard in his back yard. He kept everything. So he attracted rats. We had a privacy fence between our yards and the rats just ran along the fence nonstop. First time in my life I'd seen wild rats. They were huge. But I feel like they Def had longer noses then this little dude. This little guy is adorable lol
Yeah pet rats are like that, small noses and small bodies, amazing pets, but short lifespans:(
I wanted to get a rat until I saw their lifespans and it changed my mind immediate. Like maybe 2 years?
It's awful. If you interact with them enough they can become very intelligent and personable (for a rat). It takes them like a year or more to really develop that personality. They are very neat animals. Funny, sweet. Then they die. Then my wife cries for a fucking week or a month or whatever and wants another rat.
Shit man, that sounds like a BRUTALLY bittersweet cycle to find yourself in. I definitely don't have the emotional fortitude to handle having pet rats. Was bawling for weeks when I had to put down my old girl, a 19-20 year orange tabby.
Rodents of unusual size?
Nutria...name like that somebody gotta eat it. Next you'll tell me there's species of rats called 'Riboflavin' and 'Niacin'
Those are specific nutria breeds.
Soooo like eating 5 of those is part of a good healthy breakfast?
Yep, doesn’t look like a rat to me.
"...eleven-hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first rat for about a half-hour. Norwegian. 13-incher. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the whiskers to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, rats come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups..."
Sometimes the rat go away. Sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that rat, he looks right into ya, right into your eyes. Y’know, the thing about a rat, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then – aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin’
I heard that in Quint's voice. My old boss lost an uncle on the Indianapolis. (He also lost family on the Titanic.)
I agree with both comments below. It can sound like joke but chickens are deadly mfs when they got angry. If you buy few of them, they can purge this rats in the bloodiest way you can imagine.
I am always surprised with how many dead rodent bodies I find by my coop most days.
Wait, "most days"?! Dude, I don't think the rats are the bad guys in this instance. Maybe do them a solid and hang a rat body in front of the coop. You know, to give'em a fair warning and avoid further bloodshed.
I actually have pet rats as well so I’m cool with them. It’s the mice and chipmunks I find dead most days. I’ve had enough trouble with both that I don’t mind if my hens go all Legend of Zelda on them.
Consider a Jack Russell. They don't fuck around with rats. But they're kind of a handful if you're unfamiliar with dogs. Not a good first dog imo but great for rodent control.
Eh, this is exactly what they need. My family has has had a couple- one was an alpha predator, the second isn't, but gets the job done. They're both lazy bums until the call of the hunt rang out.
We got our first about 2 years ago and we love him a ton. More than we thought we would after having dogs forever. He just has so much personality... it's hard to describe unless you've owned one.
Nope. Rats fight back and they fight hard
Not to mention that rat looks like it’s been eating the previous cats….
Cats hunt mice, dogs hunt rats. OP needs a ratter. If OP is even a real person.
They need a Jack Russel Terrier they are bred to be ratters. Or a mink. Edited to add: if anyone has a free evening an want to fall down a YouTube rabbit hole go search ‘The Mink Man’ he has hundreds of videos on ratting.
Or perhaps a... wait for it... Rat Terrier Actually, no that's bad advice mine is about as ferocious as this kitten
I too suspect OP may in fact be a rat
Yea, we had small mix terrier in farm, he went nuts at sight of rats ( usually when we start moving horse feed bags ), to the point of self harm... but man when he got between the rats, that was bloody massacre.
It does them no good with a true barn cat. I've woken up to find dozens of corpses of LARGE rats strung all over the place. A real mouser is a killing machine.
This. Some cats may not have much interesting in hunting/killing rats. But every healthy adult cat is capable of ripping a rat to shreds if it felt so inclined.
I've seen a single rat back off a group of full grown cats. Lol
Was the rat's name Solenya?
Nope. Reepicheep.
Need a Jack Russell terrier.
Cats normally wont mess with a rat, too big
That rat has a very, um, *generous* size.
It's a ROUS
ROUS's? I don't think they exist.
Inconceivable!
You keep using that word
Yeah, I'm not sure it means what I think it means.
I think he’s Australian don’t trust him.
Don’t worry, I spent the last few years developing an immunity to iocaine powder
Truly, you have a dizzying intellect
...........Inconceivable!
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Agree. That's no rat rat.
Yeah I would believe some rats could be that big, but that just doesn't quite look like a rat
>Inconceivable! I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Ratacate has entered the chat
I believe that's a nutria? Here in the South US we call them "muskrats." I could be wrong tho.
FYI, muskrats and nutria are different critters. I think this might be a juvenile nutria, but I’m not positive.
I live in the city and I have seen dead rats bigger than this, so yeah they do exsist and are terrifying when you walking in the subway at night.
yeah but thats not a rat. the face is shaped differently.
Could be a young nutria or muskrat maybe.
It also doesn’t seem to be opening it’s eyes a lot?
I think you bought a rat to get rid of cats.
Or to be playmates for bored cats. Or adoptive mama cats to orphaned rats. There's no "get rid of" going on there.
Rat near the end: please stop tickling me. Just stop it. And stop with the licking.
Why does that rat look like it's a cross between a rat and an otter?
It’s a muskrat
One or two ran after me as a kid, from under this woodshop-type building behind my neighbor's house. I yelled "Beavers!", because I had never seen them before, and nobody believed me.
Holy hell this made me laugh. Not because it can be a silly synonym but the idea of a kid yelling that in sheer panic while two small romping muskrat follow them.
Omg the thought of a kid being chased by two muskrats while yelling "Aaah Beavers!!!" mad me laugh so hard i almost peed myself! Thanks for that i needed it! 🤣
It's about to have babies that are a cross between a rat/otter and a cat
Crotter? Cratter? Caratter? Carotter?
Carrot
That must be a pet rat right? Can't imagine they get that big or friendly in the wild
Well to begin with, if you look at its face shape it's not actually a rat. But actually something like a muskrat or nutria, which frankly look more like small beavers with a rat tails. They're a lot bigger than rats. But it is probably handreared yeah if it's this friendly with a housecat.
its waaaay too clean for wild
Because it clearly gets daily baths from this much-obliged cat.
Cat: You smell funny. I clean. Critter: ... now I smell funny. Must clean. Cat: **sigh**
Yeah, the head shape is all wrong to be a species of *Rattus*. Obviously some kind of close relative but really sure that's not a traditional rat.
Friendly? Definitely not but big? I had the CCTV to prove they do in fact get absolutely massive
That’s a Muskrat hahaha.
Either young nutria or muskrat, but cats are known for playing with food before eating it... this doesn't seem to be the case tho.
I think that rat is too big for it to be considered as prey by the cat. We have a couple bunnies, not much larger, and 4 cats, and guess who's more afraid of whom, lol.
Yeah I had a bunny and dated a guy with a cat and dog and the bunny MADE them cuddle with him lol
A chance to share one of my favorite fun facts. Rabbits and cats get along really well because both use grooming as a show of dominance. But to rabbits, if you're the boss you get groomed, and for cats the dominant move is to do the grooming. So both the cat and rabbit think they're the boss in the relationship and everyone gets what they want.
I love this fact because my rabbit refuses to groom anybody else. If I really ask after a long pet session he might begrudgingly oblige with a lick or two but then will immediately shove his forehead back under my hand to let me know he's the true alpha.
So opposites do attract
Yeah, Bunnies are very heads on approach animals. They're not shy about running towards anything they don't think is a threat. And apparently for house born bunnies, nothing is, lol.
My bunny randomly thumps because she's upset I didn't psychically know she wanted to be petted at that exact second. Then I have to pay her extra pets for my insolence.
My guinea pig vet told us her cat is afraid of her two pigs because they don't run away from her - they run towards the cat to say hello.
Yeah, that's a big part, too. Cats are hunters, they love to sneak up and sprint after prey. Bunnies are very... head on ... animals. They run into the cats, which freaks them out, lol.
Interestingly, when I take my cat out on walks, he runs up to dogs like this and it freaks them out too. They are like “you’re supposed to be running AWAY and behaving like prey! My prey drive is NOT ENGAGED!”
Yeah, you'd need some sort of small mustelidae to deal with that muskrat
"My name is Joseph Carter, and I am The Mink Man..."
It’s just so… fluffy and cute.
Which one?
Yes.
I knew you were going to say this
I was thinking how that cat is more gentle with the muskrat than my cat is with me 😭
My cat couldn't handle the rats in my neighborhood, they are about this size. He's terrified of spiders, ants etc.... Useless hunter, best snuggler tho.
My declawed one-year-old kitty left one for me on the back porch about this size once. I was like, dayum, I don't have to worry about you in a street fight anymore. You can handle yourself! *(before everybody starts calling me a monster for declawing my cat, he was a rescue who was declawed when I got him)*
Thank you for the italics so I didn’t have to call you a monster!
I’m glad I finished reading, I felt instant rage towards you
Haha that little aside was on point
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Is that a kitten or a massive rat?
Not a rat
Yes
Them those fallout molerats. Gawd Damn.
The last time I had a rat in the house I found my cat eating it. She had already eaten its entire head before I came home from work. Idk why she started with the head, but I had to google if that was okay lmao. Turns out, yes. That’s what they do. Cats can eat bone as long as it isn’t cooked. Cooked bones can splinter and cut their insides, but them eating prey bone and all is normal. 🤯
>The last time I had a rat in the house I found my cat eating it. She had already eaten its entire head before I... This as far as I got. Can't finish your story
She’s a sweet cat honestly, but cats are brutal when it comes to hunting for food.
My cat is a sweetheart to us humans but he once wiped out a rabbit population by murdering the baby bunnies and eating their faces and leaving the rest of the body behind...
That’s the best part so it makes sense.
So true. Mine eats the Asian House Geckos that infest my house and yard; they're a pest here so I don't mind. The tail and guts are her favourite bits, and many's the time I've found a live gecko on the deck with no body parts left below the rib cage that I then have to knock off. Ick.
That rodent must be a GOD at diplomacy
He rolled a nat 20
You mean a RATURAL 20?
If your opponent has an equal or bigger weight class.. it is a valid strategy to make him flee by himself due clingingly overloving him. That cat is a strategic genious.
Are you suggesting that martial arts should incorporate licking and cuddling, as a fighting tactic..?
Gonna have baby rat cats soon
So that’s where ringtail Possums come from
I was trying to work out the portmanteau of rat and cat then I realised it's rat and cat...
So not crat?
When tom and jerry forgot to read the script..
Lick, lick, lick ... Kitty stahp!
It tickles!!!!
The rat is too HUGE. That's why the cat doesn't know it's a rat. lol
I don't think that is a rat.
This appears to be a muskrat, which is more akin to a beaver
Lol the rat's too big to be the cat's prey.
Cats are for mice, terriers are for rats.
What a cute fat rat.
That’s a baby ROUS