REGARDING the giant “rat” killed near Consett, in East Durham (HAS, Apr 24).
It is not a rat but a coypu, a rodent from South America, and Brian Watson is either conning us or is ignorant enough to believe it was a rat.
Someone has bought it as a fancy pet then obviously could not be bothered to keep it because they had become bored with it.
John Young, Crook.
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