Has anyone heard about the killer-rats migrating to the United States of America? http://www.apopo.org/hires/?

Question

Allegedly, while a man was posting stakes for his new lawn in a rural community north of New York City, a giant rat jumped from the ground attacking the man while being caught on camera. The rat was of irish origin and is appeared to have migrated with many more rodents to the New York City-Boston area from ships leaving port in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Some predict the rats to be migrating West across America. What are your opinions? (Click the above jpeg for image? And if you're interested in the irish rat problem at the current time? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4487526.stm

Or try this image?

http://www.apopo.org/hires/reward2.JPG

Answer 1

This is a Gambian Pouched Rat being trained to sniff out abandoned land mines in war-torn areas of the world.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=Gambian+puched+rats+sniffing+out+land+mines&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAscYqL80.x8jy71l3_Mj6BgazKIX%2FSIG%3D111gjvvgj%2F*-http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAsuRZXHyX3jz_HHQlFel4xgazKIX%2FSIG%3D11ia1qo58%2F**http%253a%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=Gambian+puched+rats+sniffing+out+land+mines

What you read is just paranoia propaganda.

Sandra Beasley and the Spaz Rats
(Rattery, Rescue, and Rat-care Expert)
http://spazrats.tripod.com

Answer 2

Hmmm...a general search on giant rats yields lots of articles of various sorts, definately the most entertaining of which can be found at:

uncyclopeida.org/wiki/Giant_rats

I think it's time to by more bullets...and maybe upgrade my cat...

Answer 3

I don't know, but I would believe there is a lot of rats, I think this is the 3rd rat question in just 5 minutes

Dean
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MioGarden/