Chennai, Tamilnadu and the rest.

The bullet: senior citizen sisters Marjorie and Margaret Barthel feed rats in their home religiously (literally, as you will see).

Now, sisters Marjorie and Margaret Barthel are in court, ..... To purposely feed rats, and to want to live with them despite the fact they are destroying...

The story, in brief: 78-year-old twin sisters, Marjorie and Margaret Barthel, have allegedly been keeping hundreds of rats as pets for years.

Now, sisters Marjorie and Margaret Barthel are in court, facing a lawsuit filed by neighbors Scott and Liz Denham.

Nor did the office of City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo act without weeks of foot-dragging and buck-passing. Now, sisters Marjorie and Margaret Barthel are in court, facing a lawsuit filed by neighbors Scott and Liz Denham.

The bullet: senior citizen sisters Marjorie and Margaret Barthel feed rats in their home religiously (literally, as you will see).

That's right; seems when they became too old to take in larger animals, animal-lovers Marjorie and Margaret Barthel began feeding wild rats — which, experts speculate, has fueled the area's recent and mysterious rat boom.

Marjorie says shetold Liz, <span style="font-weight:bold;">“If you’re afraid of a few rats, read the Book of Revelation.”</span><br /><br />Nobody who knows the Barthels — not their nephew Jeff Luks, to whom the Weekly spoke, not friend Rene Robinson, not their former lawyer, Adam Rossman — can say what strain of...

Marjorie and Margaret Barthel are being sued by their neighbours, Scott and Liz Denham. The Denhams maintain that the Barthel sisters have been fanatically feeding the growing rat population for decades and may have added as many as 500,000 new rats to the Los Angeles' Westside.

Finally, a chilling read from Los Angeles. In the idyllic, upscale Pacific Palisades neighbourhood, elderly twin sisters Marjorie and Margaret Barthel have turned their house into a sanctuary for rats.