A few months after enduring an E. coli outbreak, about a dozen rats were seen having a good time Friday in a locked KFC/Taco Bell restaurant in New York City. The rat infestation was brought to public eye after a TV crew captured shots of rats through a window of the Greenwich Village building. Video footage of the rats was seen around the world, broadcast on TV stations and the Internet.

The owner of a McDonald's franchise in Southlake, Texas, has been sued by two women who claim to have found a dead rat in the salad bowl they purchased. However, the owner denies any charges in the court documents. According to the Fort-Worth Star Telegraph, the wife of former Cowboys wide receivers coach and passing-game coordinator Todd Haley, Christine, found a stiff dead roof rat after they began eating the salad.

The neighbors of the University of Arizona are facing strange problem that includes small white rats that have been swimming through sewer pipes and into their toilets. According to Laura Hagen Fairbanks, spokeswoman for the county's Wastewater Management Department, they are the kind that researchers use in labs.

After 37 rats and six cats were seized from the filthy cabin of his sailboat, a man now faces charges of cruelty to animals and confining animals in too small of a space. In 2006 authorities discovered Roger Dier of Petaluma to be living with 1,300 rats and evicted him from his one-bedroom home. Shortly thereafter Dier bought a 29-foot sailboat.

A 2-year-old rat terrier dog named Daisy, who disappeared from her home in Colorado, was reportedly found seven months after in Knoxville, some 1,300 miles away. The dog was spotted by Tracie Crass as it wandered down her sidewalk on Christmas night. Crass then brought the pooch on her porch and waited for its owner to come looking for it.