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Both gorgeous birds!
I caught a big fat rat in my rat zapper by the coops overnight. This guy was so big I had to give the zapper a few good shakes to get the thing out! Brown rat, white belly, big round ears, though this rat did not have a very long tail - blunt end like it had been chopped off. I chucked it over the fence into the woods.
Did it have a hairy tail ?
That would be a packrat, common in Eastern WA & OR, have not seen many on the wet side.
Ours here are black, and have short noses & big round ears.
They want no part of any bait we have tried lately, including peanut butter or the chocolate frosting we had luck with last year.
We are going to try veggies next, our rats must be a herbivore type.
DH wants to try frozen peas....
The Audubon Field Guide to North American Mammals says that packrats/woodrats exist in Western Washington, and the habitat says North Bend is a possibility.
Weirdly enough they're talking about rats on the radio right now.
I have failed to do nothing today: I got a phone call from somebody who got our number from a computer-fixing friend. The call itself and the succeeding conversation got me REALLY paranoid about my wallet, so I called to see if a theoretical honest person might have turned my wallet in to the cops and now I'm waiting for an officer to call back and take a stolen property report.
I am not having a good day.
Both gorgeous birds!
I caught a big fat rat in my rat zapper by the coops overnight. This guy was so big I had to give the zapper a few good shakes to get the thing out! Brown rat, white belly, big round ears, though this rat did not have a very long tail - blunt end like it had been chopped off. I chucked it over the fence into the woods.
Did it have a hairy tail ?
That would be a packrat, common in Eastern WA & OR, have not seen many on the wet side.
Ours here are black, and have short noses & big round ears.
They want no part of any bait we have tried lately, including peanut butter or the chocolate frosting we had luck with last year.
We are going to try veggies next, our rats must be a herbivore type.
DH wants to try frozen peas....
The Audubon Field Guide to North American Mammals says that packrats/woodrats exist in Western Washington, and the habitat says North Bend is a possibility.
Weirdly enough they're talking about rats on the radio right now.
I have failed to do nothing today: I got a phone call from somebody who got our number from a computer-fixing friend. The call itself and the succeeding conversation got me REALLY paranoid about my wallet, so I called to see if a theoretical honest person might have turned my wallet in to the cops and now I'm waiting for an officer to call back and take a stolen property report.
I am not having a good day.
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