Stuart wrote:
In article ,
-MIKE- wrote:

They also are not disease-ridden and dangerous to your pets, like
many think. Their body temperatures are actually too low to host
most mammal viruses like rabies.

Rats carry and spread 35 diseases. In the middle ages, they wiped out
25% of the population of europe.

Uh, no. It was the fleas on the rats that carried the Bubonic Plague germ.
And there were a LOT of rats.

The rats multiplied, in large measure, because the people killed off the
cats. Cats were thought to be Satan's familiars.