Coming home from seeing Forgetting Sarah Marshall at the Old Mill Playhouse via Rainey Trail (472), I noticed what looked like a medium sized rat cross the road by the Ashland gate? This is the first rodent I have seen in the Villages. Maybe, I do not get out much as the feral cats, hawks, snakes and gators must make some meals of these.

[jadebox]

I saw more then one big ugly rat when I lived in the Villas of Santo Domingo. None since I moved to Alhambra.

[MSNPA]

I have seen several when I walk in the mornings; although I must say they do not look like rats from up North. They are very small with short tails. I live off of Buena Vista towards 466A. I think these rats are coming from the fields they are bulldozing.

[graciegirl]

OH MY Gosh. ARE they rats or just garden variety field mice. An OPPOSUM looks like a large ugly rat. OH my..........GOSH! ??? ??? ???

[ouma1938]

Yech! Rats I don't need. I left those creepy things behind when I left NYC and the subways. I hope is is the bulldozing and once that ends so will the rats.

[Lil Dancer]

People told me they have seen them coming out of the big clumps of ornamental grasses on the Orange Blossom golf course. I also heard they were in the ceiling of the Paradise center before they re-built it. I expect they're all around, we just don't see them that much.

[jadebox]

They are not field mice but not as big as the ones we had in the Philippines. I think they are smaller then the ones in pictures I have seen of NY rats--BUT rats they are. My cousin said that rats like to live in Palm trees. I did not believe it until I Googled 'Rats in Palm trees'. I had a bird feeder when I lived in Santo Domingo and my neighbors said that was the reason we had rats in the area.

[thegreenerside]

I had a neighbor that was a big rat, but he moved last year