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Subject: 80-year-old teaches wild rats to come out for dinner


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Dave
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Date Posted: 03:39:28 01/30/02 Wed

80-year-old teaches wild rats to come out for dinner

An 80-year-old woman in Romania has tamed two wild rats that invaded her flat.

She says she's too old and ill to frighten them off and describes them as her friends.

They come out of their hole at her meal times then go back in when they've eaten.

She started feeding them because she didn't want them gnawing on her furniture, the Libertatea newspaper reports.

Maria Iancu from Deva, Hunedoara county said: "I was very sick and realised I couldn't protect myself, so I decided I'd better feed them and keep my things safe from their teeth.

"They've got used to me and I've got used to them and they've never destroyed anything in my room. They just come for dinner and then disappear in their holes. Rats can be very intelligent and sensible creatures."

She says she doesn't mind sharing her food with the rats.

Story filed: 07:24 Wednesday 30th January 2002

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