The Futurist discovered the gang that had attacked him still lurking in his neighborhood, and turned them into rats.

Or do I spoon it into selected rats and release them?

Probably there were just a few mice, and your memory's exaggerated them into rats, Dennis thought now.

Indigo, the cult had Ontongard cut up into rats in the basement.

The two ice monsters shimmered into rather fat white rats.

Turn themselves into rats when they want, then kill people in their sleep.

As the citizens hear him, they turn into rats and follow the sound, eventually jumping off the tower just like the rats did previously.

After at least two months on the diet, their kidneys were removed for transplantation into genetically unrelated rats.

At twelve my horses turn into rats and off I go.

So the cliche is true: the city makes us into rats.