An elderly Chinese man has shown unusually kind behavior to a huge number of rats, feeding them and even letting them stay in his flat, a news report says.

The man, a 72-year-old father who lives with his mentally disabled daughter in southwest China, has been feeding nearly 200 rats in flat for about two months now, reports the Chongqing Economic Times. He said he felt pity for some rodents who appeared in his house at that time, and fed them.

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He would often put leftovers on the floor so that the rats could eat. He did this so that they won’t be hungry, and so that more rats would come. Asked if he knew that the rodents can bring him and his daughter dangerous diseases, the man simply said that he could not harm the rodents, and that he was doing a good thing.

This man’s unusual hospitality to the animals shocked neighbors when they found out about it.

“A dozen big rats were standing in a circle on the dinner table, eating food from the bowls,” said a neighbor, adding that it was while the father and daughter were having their dinner.

Professionals sent by authorities to clean and decontaminate the man’s flat were able to catch about 170 rats on Saturday. Authorities also tried to convince the father and daughter to transfer to a nursing home where they could be taken care of.

Opposite Behaviors

If that man possessed uncanny hospitality to rats, workers from a certain restaurant in China don’t, as seen in a video footage posted online in December 2015, reports Daily Mail.

The one-minute video shows workers at a certain unnamed restaurant pick rats up by the tail, dunk them in a bucket of boiling water, then strip them of their fur. Viewers of the video will find that the rats are squealing in pain, while the workers just go ahead with their job, laughing.

The report says that this is done before the rats are turned into kebabs.

Although the name and specific location of the restaurant where the video is filmed is not revealed in the report, it is reported to be in China, where rats are eaten as part of a “wider meal” or snack. Watch the video below.

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