WINNIPEG An animal rescue shelter is praising city workers for helping rescue 11 abandoned rats. Cindy Hildebrand is the director of Popcorns and Binkies Rescue Haven and she said on March 29, she received an email from city workers saying several rats had been found in a cage at a worksite on Murray Avenue near North Main Street and the Perimeter Highway. When I got out there (the workers) had basically left it exactly how they had found it. So I was able to see this piece of carpet over a cage and when I lifted the carpet back and I had climbed into the ditch, there were at the time looked like about six to eight rats in the cage, but it turned out there were 11 in total, said Hildebrand.
City of Winnipeg crew saves 11 pet rats after finding cage abandoned in ditch
A crew from the City of Winnipeg is being credited with saving 11 abandoned pet rats after they were found dirty, sick and cold in a ditch on the outskirts of the city.
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Eleven abandoned pet rats in poor health who were cold and dirty were rescued from a ditch on Monday.(Popcorns and Binkies Rescue Haven/Facebook)