Blackbriar 8,569 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Looks like we've had it wrong all these years ! Think how the poor creature's name has been dragged through the mud....... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11432641/The-black-rats-blackened-name.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Accip74 7,112 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 I always thought those gerbils looked suspicious.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MoChara 1,632 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 I'm not going apologise to the dirty buggers, made my life hell last summer. Poison everywhere is hard to do when you got animals everywhere too. Put arm behind pig kennel to get a dish, got a handful of rat instead. Fell on my behind cause of it. I'm not scared of them as long as they don't bother me but that took the biscuit! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rimfireboy! 1,463 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 I don't like gerbils either....had two when I was a kid and they'd bite me as soon as look at me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flipper_Al 1,012 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Gerbils played a blinder though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rabbit demon 302 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 gerbils are viscious wee fecks. i actually like rats more than than gerbils, the pet ones that is. Still no denying wild rats carry a load of diseases that they can pass on to us and other animals which do cause serious health problems and fatality's. Il still kill them when i see them. Dirty things. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogmad riley 1,348 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Had 2 when I was boy they gave me hours of fun the tamest rodents I ever had. The pet shop told my mum they was to boys a few months later grow to feed them 13 of the buggers pop up. They all dissapered when I was at school never forgave my mum for that. Had a rat once that was a b@stard it was a happy day when the cat got him Quote Link to post Share on other sites
neil cooney 10,416 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Is there any colonies of the Black Rat left in the UK ? As far as I know there's one left in Ireland. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sussex 5,803 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Cagney's famous line "you dirty rat " wouldn't quite have had the right tone had he said "you dirty gerbil" .... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skull Hooker 185 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Or the collective name for the buddies of Frank Sinatra " the gerbil pack".. I don't think so 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
treecreeper 1,136 Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 wont stop me shooting the buggers, just have to keep my eye out for gerbils aswell now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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