Rats use their paws to create mini masterpieces selling for more than £2k

Meet the rats with a passion for painting who use their paws to create mini masterpieces which have been snapped up for more than £2,000. Ella Woodland, 18, decided to see if her eight pet rodents - Gubler, Rumple and Reid, aged one, and Hotch, Morgan, Luke, Rossi and Gideon, six months - had an artistic flare when she let them play with some paints in February 2025.