How many toes does a rat have?

Answer 1

Yes, on occasion. It is more likely to happen when the toes are diseased or the person is deceased. Looking through search results, I found a story where a rat ate a diabetic man's toe off. He likely had gangrene in that toe and would have lost it anyway.

However, on healthy, living people, rats generally have enough dead skin, calluses, and "toe jam" to clean off without needing to break the skin. There is a YouTube video of a pet rat cleaning a man's foot. She knew where to gnaw without hurting him.

Giant rats have been known to eat toddlers while they are still alive, but that tends to happen only where the rats get huge, and there are other problems such as poverty, sickness, or malnutrition. A mother in South Africa was arrested after rats killed her daughter that she abandoned while going on a drinking binge. They ate her face off.

Answer 2

four maybe five on the back feet, but definitely four at least.
Mine are hiding, but I pulled out one of their feet, and it looks like four . (:

Answer 3

Rats usually have four toes on their front paws and five toes on their back paws, for a total of 18 toes.