Giant rats the ‘size of cats’ have been found living on a south London housing estate.
Pest controller Lord Dean Burr discovered six rodents who were about 2ft long each during an inspection of an estate in Tooting
The 36 year-old self-proclaimed “People’s Lord” of Wimbledon said he believed the rats grew to be so big by feeding off each other.
Speaking to the Daily Star, he said: “Rats will eat mice and they will eat each other as and when they die, so it’s possible that these rats got so big by attacking and eating smaller rats.
“Getting six this big in one swoop is unheard of. I reckon we got the majority of the family."
“They were big, a foot to two feet long – that’s the size of a cat.”
Mr Burr, who set up his rat-catching company 15 years ago, said it was the biggest vermin he had ever seen, and that the rodents had become too big for the traps left to catch them.
Last month a four-foot long rat was allegedly spotted by gas engineer Tony Smith who was working at a block of flats in Hackney Downs, London.
The giant vermin was spotted lying in a bush near a children’s playground, but was it later suspected that a photograph showing Mr Smith with the giant rat was in fact misleading, using forced perspective to exaggerate the rat’s size.
