{"id":15288,"date":"2014-03-28T00:50:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15288"},"modified":"2014-03-28T00:50:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:50:30","slug":"giant-rat-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15288","title":{"rendered":"Giant Rat In Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the more popular stories on the blog is the one (well, several) about giant rats<\/a>. I noticed another surge in hits, and this recent story on the BBC<\/a> is probably why.\"Swedish<\/p>\n

It would appear that a rat weighing around 1kg chewed through concrete and wood to gain entry into a Stockholm kitchen, whereupon it traumatised the human and feline inhabitants for several days until it was finally caught in a giant mousetrap.<\/p>\n

As you can see from the photo, it was bloody huge \u2013 and unlike the British examples, it really does look like a proper rat. Mind you, yet again something which is such a scientific curiosity that it should be on display in a museum has been destroyed and cannot therefore be verified.<\/p>\n

Note the nonsense at the end of the article. There is no scientific evidence that rats are getting bigger \u2013 and yet scientists \u201cbelieve\u201d that they could eventually grow to the size of sheep and weigh nearly 13 stones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the more popular stories on the blog is the one (well, several) about giant rats. I noticed another surge in hits, and this recent story on the BBC is probably why. It would appear that a rat weighing around 1kg chewed through concrete and wood to gain entry into a Stockholm kitchen, whereupon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[99,102,89,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-general-related","category-nature","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t