Thread: Rats..... a first time for everything

Should see the big bastards on the wharf that jump off the ships occasionally, one that I saw one night had a tail that looked like a small kids forearm. I said to the maf dude that he's dreaming with the normal sized stations they had dotted around the wharf - he was like 'oh really'? I just figured he thought I was taking the piss, but no they came back in with a dog team next night and nailed a few of the bastards - yuk.

Biggest rat I've seen in NZ and not a species I'd like to see get established here. About the size of a small domestic cat or a big rabbit, I dunno what the thing weighed but up til that point I didn't know that they got that big anywhere! I think he said some type of asian water rat so not a 'rat' as such, but as noted - just yuk.

Locally where I am we have a heap of avo tree blocks and other fruit and food trees so no shortage of tucker and pretty much year round too. Normal sized common NZ rat species but they are HEALTHY to the point of being obese. Some of them just drop out of an avo tree, plop onto the ground, stagger over to the nearest windfall avo and have a feed then stagger back to the tree. I have a photo of one in the cat's gob that is so fat it's legs don't have visible joints. The guts was so big the rat would have been dragging it on the ground, it had no chance to get away from a predator like a cat. Fed itself to the point of suicide basically. Fur on the thing was shiny and sleek, all that avo Omega 3's haha. Yuk again.