Rats
One female rat can produce and care for an average of 100 plus young a year. They live in holes and burrows, they are territorial and very clever. They are gatherers hording food and have hiding places all over their area stealing from where they can. Short legs and flexible ribs means squeezing through small spaces as small as their head is possible. It is said that we are never more than a few feet from a rat, yet we do not see them that often, this is because they are mostly nocturnal (only come out at night), have excellent smell and hearing and are aware of us long before we are of them. If you see one, there are at least ten of his mates near by.
Rats are carriers of disease, live in our refuse and sewers yet are very clean creatures spending much of their time cleaning their face, fur and each other. The biggest problem humans have with rats is they are constantly peeing as their bladder can’t hold urine. Humans can pick up infections from their pee or insects such as fleas that feed on rats and humans alike. Luckily for us this is not a real problem today but through history rats have spread plagues all over the world wiping out millions of people. In the 14th century 25 million Europeans died of the black death.
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