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Giant Rat 'Bigger Than A Dog' Near Playground
The enormous dead rodent is spotted by a gas engineer working at a block of flats in north London.
A gas engineer has told how he discovered a rat bigger than his dog as he worked at a block of flats.
Tony Smith, 46, spotted the dead rodent in a bush near a children's playground while working close to Hackney Downs in north London.
He believes it weighs more than 25lbs - and is "about 4ft" long with its tail, although this would easily put it on a par with the largest known rat species in the world.
"This is the largest rat I've ever seen in my entire life," he said.
He took a photograph of his friend James Green, an electrician, holding up the supersize rat to the camera.
Mr Smith added: "I've got a cat and a Jack Russell and it was bigger than both of those."
He said bins are often left open near the estate where he has been working so "these little fellas have a pretty good diet".
Guinness World Records does not have a record for the longest rat, but it said the largest known species of rat is the slender-tailed cloud rat found on Luzon, an island in the Philippines - the tree-climbing species has a body length of up to 3ft 3in.
http://news.sky.com/story/1658135/giant-rat-bigger-than-a-dog-near-playground
Giant Rat 'Bigger Than A Dog' Near Playground
The enormous dead rodent is spotted by a gas engineer working at a block of flats in north London.
A gas engineer has told how he discovered a rat bigger than his dog as he worked at a block of flats.
Tony Smith, 46, spotted the dead rodent in a bush near a children's playground while working close to Hackney Downs in north London.
He believes it weighs more than 25lbs - and is "about 4ft" long with its tail, although this would easily put it on a par with the largest known rat species in the world.
"This is the largest rat I've ever seen in my entire life," he said.
He took a photograph of his friend James Green, an electrician, holding up the supersize rat to the camera.
Mr Smith added: "I've got a cat and a Jack Russell and it was bigger than both of those."
He said bins are often left open near the estate where he has been working so "these little fellas have a pretty good diet".
Guinness World Records does not have a record for the longest rat, but it said the largest known species of rat is the slender-tailed cloud rat found on Luzon, an island in the Philippines - the tree-climbing species has a body length of up to 3ft 3in.
http://news.sky.com/story/1658135/giant-rat-bigger-than-a-dog-near-playground
I won't sleep well tonight . Rats and carrots are my 2 phobias
