I spotted a rat ‘the size of a DOG’ while walking through city centre – everyone’s saying the same thing

A SUPER-SIZE rat was spotted running rampage on the streets of New York – with horrified viewers claiming it was “the size of a DOG”.

The TikTok footage captures the beast crossing the pavement as horrified onlookers rush to avoid its treacherous path.

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The horrifying video shows the very large rat scurrying across a pavement and onto the road with the caption: “That boy been eating good.”

The sight of the furry rodent left people both terrified and amazed – some ran away and others whipped out the cameras to catch a photo of the magnificently-large rat.

The comment section was filled with users throwing out ideas of what the vermin specimen actually was.

One wrote: “That’s a muskrat”, while another offered: “That’s a whole capybara.”

A third chimed in: “That’s a Rottweiler”.

“Bro, I thought that was a beaver,” another wrote.

New York is no stranger to the vermin, which relentlessly occupy their sewage drains, parks, subways and walls.

The city has been waging an all-out-war against its rat population for over a century now – yet the rats somehow seem to be winning.

The fast-breeding vermin have survived successive mayoral campaigns to defeat them, as well as citizen-led rat hunting organisations.

The Atlantic estimates the rat population has now hit 2 million across 90 per cent of the city.

Last month, one of New York’s finest rats was caught on camera crawling over a sleeping commuter.

The skin-crawling scene involved the rat climbing up the dozing man as he sits slumped in his seat – none the wiser of his new little friend.

The rat then goes up onto his shoulders to take a seat behind his neck, which is when the man finally wakes up to the nasty surprise.

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