"But I hope you got more than just one of them rock rats for us to eat."
Do you know that rats can eat a human alive?
Rats eaten the boy who went for them days ago?
Within the hour, a rat had come around and eaten it.
But the kind of trouble they were in now would make a rat eat red pepper.
He couldn't see any more - the rats had already eaten his eyes.
In this case many species particularly birds die out because the rats eat their eggs.
And if they choose to let rats eat it, we've got no say in the matter.
So the rats eat the dog that is carried by one of the children.
"You see rats eating the bread and carrying away the gold pieces."