The thing about rats is they only care about themselves.

She remembered what her father had said about rats.

Heidegger really did write like that (though not about rats).

But deep inside, I was once again unsure of my feelings about rats.

"Let's not talk about rats at the table," their mother replied.

"We're talking about rats taking pieces of food," he said.

I guess you must really have a thing about rats.

Something in her remarks about rats had reminded him of where he came from.

Billem's got this terrible thing about rats, if you don't mind.

As the amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats.