Updated 01 August 2002, 11.00

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Instead they're just dumping them on the streets where the rats find them, and the rodents are tucking in whenever they choose.

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		Rats live for 18 months
		They weigh about the same as a bag of sugar
		Rats have no bellybuttons
		Rats can't be sick

They've got so much food to choose from that the poison normally used to kill them isn't working any more.

The number of rats in Britain has gone up by almost a quarter in the last two years and with 60 million of them now living in the UK, there are almost as many as rats as people.

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And unless we start putting more of our rubbish in the bin, then they'll be loads of them running around where we live.

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