David Taylor and Stephen Martin are representatives for a northeast England region. They shared an image of the large rat on July 28. See it.

COMMENT: After ‘Britain’s biggest ever rat’ is removed from a Yorkshire family home, veteran catcher David Parnell says it won’t be a record-breaker for long – thanks to genetics, careless humans and poor sewer management,

He told HuffPost UK: “A typical rat measures around 9 inches long (not including tail). With the proper environmental conditions, such as easy access to an open water source, food source and safe harbourage from predators, they have been known to grow to larger sizes of around 17 inches!”