Wiktionary
roof rats
n. (roof rat English)
Usage examples of "roof rats".
Norway rats like meats such as frankfurts, whereas roof rats prefer fruits and nuts.
Well, someone might as well live up here besides flies and pigeonsI suppose he eats those scrabbling roof rats.
These were big, plump pigeons, not the diseased roof rats of the city, and he selected a fat one, expertly slipped a silver message ring round its leg, and tossed it up into the night.
She asks what it was and they say the roof rats must've chewed through the outside wires, but now all's well.