Rats are actually very clean and groom themselves constantly! I’d give mine little baths and they’d just sit there all spooked up waiting for it to be over lol
They can also be potty trained though males are easier than females so you better be ok with giant nuts being dragged around your place.
Why are their nuts so big?
It’s a mating strategy as sperm volume increases the rat’s chance to reproduce. Single female mates with multiple males and more volume translates into higher chance for male’s sperm to succeed.
In general, nut size directly correlates with promiscuity across most species so you can tell how a species fucks just by looking at their balls :D
Uh… Thanks, I guess. I should be more careful about the questions I ask. lol
That’s also why gorillas have tiny testes: total wife guys!
A rat version of Little Red Riding Hood would be so amazing.
“Grandma? Why are - why are your… Ehm…”
Mostly the herpes and other disease transmitted through blood and feces.
They can also help people be cleaner. Having them as pets strongly encourages tidy cable management and frequent vacuuming behind furniture. 😁
Nothing that lives in sewage is clean, least not the things that clean themselves with their mouths. What makes something unclean is not dirt, it’s the pathogens.
Exposure empowers the immune system so the “dirty” rat is likely to cary less pathogens than many people 😬
They’re more likely to be immune than us to what they carry.
Tbf we think they’re gross because they have more resilient digestive systems than us, allowing them to be perfectly fine eating stuff that would instantly cause food poisoning for a human.
Vultures are like that too, stomach acid capable of breaking down neutron star matter!
My rat once ate the remnants of a dead (whatever this is called in English)
The smell was terrible but the rat didn’t have any problem.
Stink bug :)
The only good thing about stink bugs is that they’re so slow and easy to catch. If you do it gently you can set them free outside and not have to smell that awful acrid stink.
If they could just stay the fuck out of homes unless invited in, they would be great.
Vampire rats
It’s great that Bob and Linda Belcher are narrating comics in my brain now
It definitely has the flavor of their interactions
It sounds kind of like linda defending her raccoons
Now that you mention it, I can hear Linda narrating the whole thing while watching rats in the alley eating the food she left for them.
Everyone and everything is gross.
Is a clean and sterile marble countertop gross?
Yes. It’s an odious display of wealth and obsessive cleaning 😛
I have a new found respect for rats ever since I saw the Pizza Rat video taken in the NYC subway.
One has to admire such grit.
Envious, not jealous.
Rats and mice clean themselves, which is more than I can say about the average comic or MTG convention attendee.
Mice might be clean in themselves, but they’re not in any way trained about toilet habits and they go right where they are, wherever they are, frequently.
You’ll know you’ve got a mouse (or more) because the poops turn up everywhere.
No idea about rats. Never had one as an unwanted house-guest and hope I never do. They’re more likely to stand their ground and fight than mice even if their toilet habits turn out to be better.
I assume Liz Climo’s characters are better about these sorts of thing, but I can’t say I’ve seen a comic of hers to prove that.
