Parisian politician aims to change French view of rats from pests to pets

It has black button eyes and long, thin whiskers that tremble when it looks around curiously.
Unlike most rats, this one has a name, Plume, and gets to enjoy the rare privilege of wandering around Paris on the shoulder of its owner, a local politician.
Gregory Moreau, a Paris district deputy mayor, is on a mission to reconcile residents with the capital’s population of rats which, it is said, outnumber the French inner city’s two million human residents by a big margin.
“Hello, have you ever…