A rat is a very common creature. It is found everywhere in the world. It is a very small creature. A rat has four legs, two eyes, two ears and a long tail. It has small sharp claws at the end of the legs. Its tiny teeth are also very sharp. It is normally gray in colour.
A rat lives in holes in fields and houses. It lives mainly on grains like rice and wheat. A rat is a very mischievous creature. It causes a great harm and damage to property. It keeps gnawing at everything that it may get. Actually, its teeth continue to grow, due to which it has to keep gnawing.
A rat is very dangerous too. It carries germs of different dreadful diseases like plague. This disease sometimes breaks out in the form of an epidemic claiming hundreds of lives. So, men are always at war with rats. Different methods of catching and killing rats have been found. To catch them, traps are set up and to kill them poison is used. Dogs and cats are also kept in houses to get rid of them.
