Mutant rat (Regrets)
Mutant rats (AUDIO: Regrets [+]Loading...["Regrets (audio story)"]) were rats which grew in size after being exposed to extraterristrial chemicals dumped in the Docklands area of London, forming a new subspecies. (AUDIO: Apex [+]Loading...["Apex (audio story)"]) Docklands was the location of Canary Wharf, (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"95","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}) where a battle between Daleks and Cybermen was held, (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"]) and the location of Torchwood Tower, which investigated alien incursions. (TV: Army of Ghosts) As Apex Costa noted, (AUDIO: Apex [+]Loading...["Apex (audio story)"]) a similar case occurred in Sheffield in 2018 when spiders mutated after being exposed to toxic waste. (TV: Arachnids in the UK)
A series of attacks were reported in the press. In the third reported attack, a family dog was killed. The owner was on a work Zoom, when her dog Benji started barking. After he stopped, she went out into the garden and found him; he had been mauled and ripped to shreds. She saw the tail of the rat disappearing under the fence. She described it as "half rat, half gremlin". (AUDIO: Regrets [+]Loading...["Regrets (audio story)"])
