Maybe those 2012 people are right. Surely that's a sign of the coming apocalypse?
"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
We had quite similar looking rats living under our porch one talk and winter. Not nearly so big, and turned out to be gambian pouch rats. I guess Illinois outlawed sale of them along with prairie dogs after the monkey pic scare. They seemed pretty friendly, I assume they were dumped by owners or a pet shop. They didn't make all the way through the winter.