Hoarders: Man Lives With Thousands Of Uncaged Pet Rats
LatestLast night’s season finale of Hoarders saved the most extreme for last. Glen is a gentle, pretty chill guy who has been hoarding rats. Rats! What started as three caged pets ballooned into a population of thousands, overrunning his house.
As someone who lives in NYC, it’s difficult to understand how someone can view rats as pets and not pests. It’s even more befuddling that someone could look at such a large number of rats as a community instead of an infestation. However, Glen loves his rats, and thinks of them as his children, despite the fact that they have completely destroyed his property—chewing away at the walls and furniture—and essentially elbowed him out of his own home, forcing him to sleep on a chair in his shed to avoid having his hair pulled out for their nests and his eyeballs licked at for their moisture. It sounds like many people’s nightmare, but Glen finds the animals soothing, particularly when they’re eating.