Apparently some other variety, then.
I happen to like rats for t heir resiliency and tenacity at getting by on their own keen sense. They are survives. They have no fear and be they from the gutter to the field or the sewer they do so by their wits. They most certainly do not have to make shit up.
One time I was in England. There was a man who lived in the house next to where I was staying. The man had about 4 huge white pet rats in cages. Those were his pets. That is some nasty stuff. Nothing to like about these pests.
You may not like them but they have dominion over the planet. They human virus is its only competitor. Look at it from their perspective; we are an infestation, a virtual nectrotizing germ that has laid waste more of this planet than any other living creature. To the rest of the animal world we are absolutely the most horrible pestilence that can ever be hoped for.
Because were are at the top of the food chain, we think we are better. From the planet's perspective we are a disease and very few of us if any of us have shown any sense of deep respect and understanding for our world.
We even have contempt for the animists of our specie who see this planet as part of themselves and label even the stones brother and sister and call the streams mother. No to the rest of us civilized of the human species they are the backward ones. Wake up. We are the pestilence not the rat.