Research on the relationship between animals and humans • “It is a sensitive relationship”
If you do not get a cat or dog as a pet, you may instead choose a rodent. But like summer cats, there is a tendency for people to get tired of their rats and choose to abandon them and leave them to their fate.
Then Tobias Linné, who works with the Rat Aid in Lund, takes care of them. He runs on -call homes and is working on the animals at the same time as he makes sure they are relocated, something P4 Malmöhus reported on.
– The rats are where we are. After all, they follow us and their natural habitat, wild riding, are in the cities with people.
Differ from wildlife
The rats that come home to Tobias Linné are domestic rats with different backgrounds. They may have been found abandoned or threatened to be killed by their previous owner. But domestic rats, unlike wild roles, are social and intelligent animals. And the rats, both tame and wild, have lived next to a long time.
– It is like a sensitive relationship as well, has been through all the centuries between rats and people, he says.
The rat and man’s relationship
Tobias researches at Lund University on animals and people’s relationships. And the relationship between the rat and man has a long history, a somewhat sensitive one.
– We need to relate to rats in some way because they are around us. It is difficult to imagine that we could eradicate them, he says.