A 'giant' rat was caught on film scavenging for foods just yards from the entrance of a town centre supermarket in broad daylight.
The brazen rodent was one of three of the creatures that were unhurriedly feeding near an ASDA super store in Newton Abbot, Devon.
It was filmed by 45 year-old Paul Johnson who couldn't believe it.
He said: "I was on my way to Asda when I noticed movement in the bushes right next the store's entrance.
"I stopped to look and saw three rats.
"One of them was running along a wall completely oblivious to nearby shoppers while the other two were scavenging through some rubbish.
"I was completely shocked to see rats running around so close to the shop entrance.
"I spotted three rats but who knows how many more of them there could've been?"
Experts have warned that the rodents are becoming increasingly resistant to poison - the conventional blood-thinning poison used to kill the rats is not working as it used to.
During the 1960s onwards, rat poison was based on the blood-thinning agent warfarin. It worked by draining the blood from the rat and killing it.
Today pest controllers use bromadiolone, but both are proving to be ineffective on some monster vermin.
