 Employees operate the fabric-cutting table.
The rats range from eight to 20 feet high and cost $3,500 to $7,000 each. Their sales account for less than 3% of the Scherbas' $10.5 million annual revenue - rat sales dwindled to 17 last year from their peak of 50 in 2002 - but they definitely keep inflatables in the news.
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