That's nothing. City rats can grow as big as cats, with all the food thrown around down in the subway and on the sidewalks.
That rat is HUGE! Field rats do not get quite that big.
The summer of 1985 I worked in downtown Buffalo right on the river next to the General Mills plant where they make Cheerios. Every time they burned/overcooked a batch of Cheerios they came out a conveyor belt to a big pile outside the plant. At night the rats came out. Biggest Cheerios fed rats I have ever seen.
That's nothing. City rats can grow as big as cats, with all the food thrown around down in the subway and on the sidewalks.