3/90Estimated number of pounces it takes a cat to catch a rodent: 3

Dennis Turner, Zoology Institute, University of Zurich

10/96Years a California rat retailer used the name Rats R Us before Toys ‘R’ Us threatened to sue: 2

Rat Paradise (Encinitas, Calif.)

    Price charged for a “jumbo” rat by the newly christened Rat Paradise: $7.50

Rat Paradise (Encinitas, Calif.)

5/01Estimated number of “crush films” involving live rodents and high-heeled women seized from a New York man in 1999: 70

Suffolk County Probation Office (Yaphank, N.Y.)

    Hours of community service at an animal shelter to which he was sentenced last December: 280

Suffolk County Probation Office (Yaphank, N.Y.)