There’s A Rat In My Kitchen, What Am I Gonna Do?

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Anywhere that there are too many humans there will be too many rats. It’s a simple fact of life. Humans are dirty and produce an incredible amount of edible waste which we liberally spread around ourselves without a care in the world.

Rats, on the other hand, make relatively little mess, and free of charge they’ll clean up after us. Thanks rats, but I don’t want to hang out with you. I don’t like diseases very much. I appreciate what you’re doing but the bubonic plague simply isn’t my vibe.

For instance, the rat pictured above was seen in Regent’s park and the guy below was spotted outside a home in the swinging Belsize Park area of London. Not even those with cash can avoid the ever-present Rattus rattus:

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Just a couple of months back Royal Mail deliveries were suspended to properties in a service road in Streatham because of a “plague” of giant rats. Some newspapers (The Sun, The Mirror etc.) have reported these “giant rats” to be the size of cats… so divide that size by three to get their actual size. But still, that’s pretty scary.

I know, I know, London is not the only city in the world with pests, but in Mumbai it doesn’t cost eight-million pounds per second to rent a home.