Animal Folklore: Rodents

Email hoax claims an "Asian/Chinese" restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia was recently closed by authorities for offering dishes made of rats, mice, kittens and puppies.

We get to the bottom of that pernicious rumor about Mr. Gere and his furry little friend.

Another apocryphal sex tale involving men and gerbils.

E-tale about a Hawaiian store clerk who inhaled a fatal dose of dried rat droppings.

How a friend of a friend lost her life by drinking from an unwashed Coke can.

Excuse me, folks, but that mangy chihuahua of yours looks an awful lot like a sewer rat!

Emailed photos document one of the more unusual causes of a printer jam: a live mouse stuck in the printer's ink toner cartridge.