Well, Winter is most definitely now here!
Damp weather and cold nights!
But, the worst part about winter is that Rodents decide that they no longer want to live happily outside, they want to live inside. Inside your home! No jokes!
So maybe you already knew that, but did you know any of these horrifyingly amazing facts about Rats?
- Rats’ front teeth grow 4½ to 5½ inches each year. Rats wear them down by continuously gnawing on everything around them, including cement, brick, wood, lead pipes, and other small animals.
- A female rat can mate as many as 500 times with various males during a six-hour period of receptivity—a state she experiences about 15 times per year. Thus a pair of brown rats can produce as many as 2,000 descendants in a year if left to breed unchecked. (A rat matures sexually at age three to four months.) An average rat’s life span is two to three years.
- A rat can tread water for three days and survive being flushed down the toilet.
- Rats eat their own feces, purely for the nutritional value.
- A rat can fall as far as 50 feet and land uninjured.
- If you were born in 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, or 1996, then you’re a rat, according to Chinese astrology. This would make you quick-witted, resourceful, and something of a fashionista. Exactly like a rat, except for the clothes bit.
- Rats do not sweat. They regulate their temperature by constricting or expanding blood vessels in their tails.
- Innie or outie? Rats don’t have gallbladders or tonsils, but they do have belly buttons.
- There are an estimated 70 million Rats living in New York city.
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