Design by Satoshi Kitamura

Rats are small and very cheap to feed,maintain and transport.

Rats are less emotionally tied to theirhandler than dogs. It is thereforeeasier to transfer them betweenhandlers.

Rats are everywhere. They can dealwith almost any environment.

Rats are happy to do repetitive tasks.

You can adopt a rat. It costs just € 5,-a month. And in Africa € 5,- buys a lotof peanuts!

Rats use their sense of smell to findexplosives. Therefore, unlike metaldetectors, they can detect bothmetal and plastic cased landmines.

Rats have an incredibly good senseof smell.

Rats are light. Theywill not trip offmines whenthey standon them.

Rats are easy tobreed and train.

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