Petaluma animal control workers expected to find a horde of cats when they knocked on the door of a 67-year-old man whose neighbor complained of a stench. Instead, they stumbled onto a scene straight out of the movie "Willard."

About 1,000 pet rats -- ranging from 3-year-old adults to little pink newborns -- shared the one-room house with Roger Dier.

Yuck. What a freak!

I don't just mean because of the rats, but anyone who has this many animals.

Most of them will be eutanized.

The article says that animal hoarders have a 100% recidivism rate.

Guess the liberals should come up with some expensive government program to help these "poor people"?






http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/23/BAGFDJJ61J21.DTL

1,000? :eek3:

Well that might not be so hard with rats if you don't separate them from the other gender or get them fixed. Rats can have like 15 babies per litter sometimes and can produce several litters a year. So it's probably not like he was purposely breeding hundred of rats. He probably just wanted to take care of them all and they over whelmed him. It's kind of sad for both him and the rats. Most likely weren't being fed very well and not much room to move around. People really should watch The Price is Right more often.


Bob Barker: please remember to spay and neuter your pets.

Why not just force him to adopt a couple of snakes and a cat? Problem solved.