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Posted: 2023-10-30T10:19:16Z | Updated: 2023-10-30T22:49:46Z

Sweet love!

An a-dough-rable pair of New York City rats got their paws on a doughnut in a TikTok clip thats proved a worthy challenger to the beloved pizza rat footage .

The video, shared by Carly Hittner on her account @smallredcar , shows a rat nibbling on a doughnut abandoned on the subway tracks, then dragging it away.

The rat then finds a fellow rodent, and the two split the snack in what looks like the kind of budding romance that hasnt been seen since Roddy and Rita in Flushed Away.

Some of the men in this city need lessons in chivalry, Hittner wrote in a caption on the video, which has more than 3.3 million views.

@smallredcar

donut rat treats his woman better than half you other rats in this city #donutrat #rat #nyc #chivalry #gifts #ratczar #subway

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The TikTok user also tagged the video with a sharp message for the Big Apple: Donut rat treats his woman better than half you other rats in this city.

Hittner told Today.com that she took the video earlier this month following a dinner date with her boyfriend.

We see this rat trying to carry this thing thats bigger than its whole body and youre thinking, Oh my gosh, its like pizza rat! said Hittner, referring to the ambitious rodent that took social media by storm in 2015 and sparked allegations of a hoax .

The apparent love story between the doughnut rat and its friend led to a caption that Hittner based on a recent talk with a pal about dating in the Big Apple.

I was listening to my friends talking about dating, relationships and their kind of grievances with dating in the city. And it was like, Oh, well, if a rat can do it. Its simple. It shouldnt be this hard, she said.

The clip, which Hittner shared on Wednesday, has TikTok users praising the rat as A HIGH VALUE MAN as well as a PROVIDER for its squeaky sweetheart.

The NY rats have a better love life than I do, one user wrote.

This is the nicest guy in nyc, proclaimed another user.

Hittner told New Yorks Fox 5 that shes humored and surprised by how much support and agreement theres been over what she referred to as a lighthearted jab.

Theyre giving us some good humor and some good content, so Ill leave it at that, she said. Theyre making an example for men, then it cant be that big of a problem.

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