Brits encouraged to get rats as pets as they are 'sociable, intelligent and friendly' https://t.co/K5Z44QibM1 pic.twitter.com/KChMWPu0aN
— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) April 7, 2022
‘sup?
Finally.
Pets for the unjabbed.
*slurp*
Brits encouraged to get rats as pets as they are ‘sociable, intelligent and friendly’ (The Mirror)
The old Balbutcher Lane site, Ballymun, Dublin
This morning/afternoon.
A good day for ratlickers.
Not so good for Ballymun residents.
Via Dublin Live:
The rats are coming across to homes from a field in Balbutcher Lane, a largely residential area with lots of young children.
They are often spotted sitting brazenly out on the path, and one concerned mother told Dublin Live that they are living in constant fear.
She said: “If you’re walking by them, they just don’t move. The traffic is not even bothering them.
Locals in the area took to Facebook to share their own horrible experiences.
One person said: “The size of them, it’s not normal.”
Anyone?
Giant rats leaving terrified Dublin residents ‘afraid to leave windows open’ (Dublin Live)
Dublin City Council Cllr Noeleen Reilly
‘sup?
What!?
Via Michael McNamara, former Labour Party TD for Clare.
‘
What sort of a SICK individual takes pleasure in the suffering of a little animal?This is probably how Labour think of the working class too. Disgusting tweets#liveline @peta @ISPCA1#rtept #TonightVMTV #LE19#MichaelMcNamara #ge20 #EUElections2019 #ge19#Marian #twip #marr pic.twitter.com/l5oJIDuT9T
— Ah now, seriously? (@AhNowSeriously) May 22, 2019
Anyone?
They ate a child.
They sucked the cows.
Further to the brown rat discovered by Nick Moran on Monday.
[Which, we gather, sadly died from injuries inflicted during an incident involving a Dunlop putter on Tuesday]
Meet his forebears.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
Readers might be interested to know that the brown rat is a relatively recent arrival in Ireland. It first turned up in Dublin round 1722 or so, most probably via a Russian ship from the Baltic, and within a mere seven years had succeeded in causing fear, terror and consternation among the city’s inhabitants, as outlined in this extract from Walsh’s Imperial Newsletter, 1729:
“This morning we have an account… that a parcel of those outlandish Marramounts which are called Mountain Rats, which are now here, grow very common; that they walk in droves and do a great deal of mischief …. ate a woman and nurse child in Merrion. People killed several who are as big as Katts and Rabbits. This part of the country is infested with them. Likewise we hear from Rathfarnham that the like vermin destroyed a little girl in the Field; they are to be seen like rabbit, and are so impudent that they suck the cows …”
It appears that the brown rats were driven back to the ruins of Merrion castle (pic above, just across from what is now Merrion Gates) where they holed up for a number of years before either dying out or diminishing in size. See cupboard rat for details.
Previously: Sup?
Merion Castle by Gabriel Beranger (National Library Of Ireland)
