Consider the stats: rats cause 26% of all electric cable breaks, 18% of all phone cable disruptions, 25% of all fires of unknown origin are rat-caused, and rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world's food supply per year. Other than man, the rat has been called the world's most destructive mammal.Rats skeletons are collapsible, which is why they can scurry into as small as their skulls.Get a pair of rats a-mating and they can produce up to 15,000 offspring in a year.Can you believe what monstrous rats are down there? The rats that actually come out are the desperate ones - being the runts, they need to come out during the day to get to food sources with less competition.If you like scramble eggs and macaroni and cheese, and hate raw vegetables.So, I can't believe that is among the most fascinating books I've read this past year! and he dropped his 10-pound hand barbel on it and crushed it to death. *shudder* Until one day, the hubby finally saw this humungous rat caught in some wire. The rat kept getting bigger, badder, and before long was reproducing. I remember we had one in the house at one point and we tried everything - traps, poison. You probably do too. And we all have our war stories involving rats.

I shudder at the thought of having rats in the house. I am probably the last person to say anything complimentary about rats. I read this over several months and I wanted to write about this book because I really enjoyed it! I first mentioned this book in a Friday 56 way back in October 2011. My two cents The book in one sentence: A man observes rats in a obscure alley in New York. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, Rats earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing. Sullivan looks deep into the largely unrecorded history of the city and its masses-its herds-of-rats-like mob. Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. In Rats, the critically acclaimed bestseller, Robert Sullivan spends a year investigating a rat-infested alley just a few blocks away from Wall Street. Synopsis of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan : Love them or loathe them, rats are here to stay-they are city dwellers as much as (or more than) we are, surviving on the effluvia of our society. Rats, yes, I am writing about a book about RATS!

Rats by robert sullivan