Rats, rats EVERYWHERE! ☹️

[Ursuline Chick]

Rat.(bills are 6" long)
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Mouse. (sans flesh)
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Isn't it a very useful tool to have a 6" ruler in you pocket or purse when ever you need it?
All american paper money is 6" long, thanks @aart, a lot of people don't know this.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Someone once told me I should keep the possums in my neighborhood, as they eat mice and rats, which will worry my hens and take my eggs.
Well, possums do eat mice and rats, they also eat eggs and chickens. I would rather deal with the rats myself, than to have to deal with rats and possums.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Here’s one of the holes. It was getting dark and I didn’t have anything for scale with me. But I’ll get one with a “scale item” tomorrow.

 

[duluthralphie]

Here’s one of the holes. It was getting dark and I didn’t have anything for scale with me. But I’ll get one with a “scale item” tomorrow. View attachment 2440701

Rats. The grass blades are enough scale.

 

[HuffleClaw]

Someone once told me I should keep the possums in my neighborhood, as they eat mice and rats, which will worry my hens and take my eggs.
Well, possums do eat mice and rats, they also eat eggs and chickens. I would rather deal with the rats myself, than to have to deal with rats and possums.

I lost 2 birds to a possum earlier this year. My neighbor finally shot it.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I lost 2 birds to a possum earlier this year. My neighbor finally shot it.

Sorry about your loss, glad your neighbor could help.

 

[Geena]

Rats. The grass blades are enough scale.

Probably is rats, but it could be voles as well. We have a huge population of voles here and I've seen plenty of well traveled vole holes that are that size and even larger.

 

[duluthralphie]

We have no voles that tunnel like that here. I am not even sure we have any larger than a small mouse.

We have some moles but their tunnels are just humped on just under the surface.

But we have pocket gophers that make huge piles and striped gophers that make tunnels like the one in the picture. But I have never seen one in a building.

 

[Geena]

We have no voles that tunnel like that here. I am not even sure we have any larger than a small mouse.

We have some moles but their tunnels are just humped on just under the surface.

But we have pocket gophers that make huge piles and striped gophers that make tunnels like the one in the picture. But I have never seen one in a building.

I believe there are several different varieties of voles. The ones we have here are about 5 to 6 inches long. They make underground tunnels and also above ground tunnels that look like this -

 

[duluthralphie]

I believe there are several different varieties of voles. The ones we have here are about 5 to 6 inches long. They make underground tunnels and also above ground tunnels that look like this -
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I have never seen those tunnels. They look open on the top are they?