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The rodent – which has been named Rodney – is a coypu American swamp rat. He was found in a river in Kilnascully by a man out for a walk in April – and he’s three times the size of your average Irish rat.
Despite speculation that the little fellow (little, compared to a regular-sized human) might find a new home in some kind of animal sanctuary, news reaches us today that Rodney is still being cared for in Kildare by the organisation that originally took him in.
“Since the news broke to the media, we’ve had lots of offers for homes for Rodney,” Dan Donaher of Kildare Animal Foundation told TV3′s Animal Rescue.
“Some have been from people living in housing estates and places that just aren’t suitable really for him because he needs quite specialised care,” he told the programme, in an episode due to be broadcast on Monday night.
This three-foot swamp rat found in a Tipperary river needs a new home