Move over Ratzilla, there's a capybara on the loose
A rat the size of a bulldog has been shot dead on a Bradford council estate . Word is, the creature - dubbed 'Ratzilla' by The Sun newspaper - could be descended from the coypu, a large rodent native to South America. I'm sorry Bradford, but we've got a rat the size of a flat-coated retriever in The Enchanted Village . It's more like a capybara than a coypu . And it's getting bigger by the day. Champagne-Charlie has been lying in wait for the monster from the safety of the garden shed while he keeps watch over the Sheepwash hens. Mr Grigg and I dismissed the tale as something told by a big game hunter who's had one too many gins. But C-C is adamant. 'It was about this long,' he said, doing an impersonation of a coarse fisherman who's narrowly missed landing a 5ft pike. 'Not only that, it had three little babies trailing in its wake.' Not just a capybara, then, but a bloody pied piper. Yeuch. That's about it. Lov...