About 140 of the pet rats are up for adoption after authorities removed them from van where they lived with their owner.
It started with two pet rats. It exploded to more than 300. And they all lived in a van with their owner, parked near one of San Diego’s toniest communities.
Rats have lots and lots of babies — a healthy litter consists of roughly 10 to 12 rats. Plus, they multiply fast — gestation usually runs four weeks — so it didn’t take long for two rats to become more than 300. At first sight, the officers “realized right away the situation was significant,” Capt. Danee Cook said Thursday.
“She was feeding all of them, had water for all of them,” Cook said. “This didn’t meet the standards of hoarding.” They collected about 320 of the animals, the majority of them juveniles. Many of the rats are pregnant, Cook said.has been set up to help the woman living in the vehicle. As of Thursday, more than $4,700 had been raised.
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