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Is that a Texas rat? I personally have only seen a handful and never one that dark.

That does not look like a Texas rat to me unless it is just a bad and dark picture. It looks more like a black rat to me.

I have found some pretty dark Texas Rats in Louisiana, but that one is a little darker than I have seen in the wild.

Yeah, I would strongly suspect some major Black Rat gene-flow there.

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Looks like typical plains states black rat to me. I find them just like this all the time and I'm right next door in Illinois.
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