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Remote Scottish islands Declared Rat-Free - Lured to Captivity With Peanut Butter & Chocolate
The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 2 MARCH 2018 | Nicola Harley

Posted on 03/02/2018 10:44:01 PM PST by nickcarraway

Remote Scottish islands declared rat-free after rodents lured to captivity using peanut butter and chocolate

A remote Scottish island has officially been declared rat-free after rodents were caught using peanut butter and chocolate.

In a four year programme to rid the Shiant Isles of its rodents, the RSPB placed mini rat motels across the area filled with cocoa and peanut butter flavoured wax blocks to catch them.

It is hoped by ridding the island of its non-native rats the seabird populations will be boosted by protecting their breeding sites

The Isles, a cluster of islands five miles east of the Isle of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides, form one of the most important seabird breeding colonies in Europe, providing a home for around 100,000 pairs of nesting seabirds each year.

But it was feared that rats on the islands were feeding on eggs and chicks of the birds that breed there, including puffins, razorbills, and guillemots.

A monitoring programme last month found no evidence of rats - meaning none of the creatures have been recorded on the Isles for two years, meeting the internationally agreed criterion for rat-free status.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: birds; rats; scotland
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1 posted on 03/02/2018 10:44:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
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"the RSPB placed mini rat motels across the area filled with cocoa and peanut butter flavoured wax blocks to catch them."

We need these for the Senate.
2 posted on 03/02/2018 10:50:32 PM PST by clearcarbon
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Crazy headline... “Lured to captivity”???? More like lured to their deaths. Geesh. Journalists can’t even write a story saying that rats were killed.


3 posted on 03/02/2018 10:59:48 PM PST by Kipp
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To: nickcarraway

Peanut butter &chocolate
4 posted on 03/02/2018 11:20:50 PM PST by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service ... #ReleaseTheMemo)
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To: nickcarraway

My mother used to catch mice with bacon, but I learned as an adult they are CRAZY about peanut butter.


5 posted on 03/02/2018 11:31:35 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: nickcarraway

The best way to lure a ‘rat is with free housing and food stamps.


6 posted on 03/02/2018 11:54:21 PM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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Crazy headline... “Lured to captivity”???? More like lured to their deaths. Geesh. Journalists can’t even write a story saying that rats were killed.

No, in this case, the rats were probably caught, shipped to California, and then released there.

"No borders!", yuh know...

Regards,

7 posted on 03/03/2018 12:21:34 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: nickcarraway

I wish we were RAT-free. Drain the Swamp!!!


8 posted on 03/03/2018 2:07:30 AM PST by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: nickcarraway

In fairness to the Rats, that would catch me out as well


9 posted on 03/03/2018 2:16:17 AM PST by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President)
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To: nickcarraway

Reeses peanut butter cups. Killer sweets!


10 posted on 03/03/2018 2:45:57 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kipp
Some years ago, some activists showed up at a city council meeting in the People's Republic of Takoma Park (MD), which sits just over the DC line to the north. The local politics are infamously progressive. The activists asserted that Takoma Park's rat poisoning program was inhumane and must be stopped. Apparently still on a crunchy granola high, the council agreed and voted to institute humane trapping.

No one, of course, bothered to ask what Takoma Park would do with the rats once trapped. Eventually, however, a sane person surfaced and posed the question. The response from a city official was timeless: "rats are wild animals and we should release them back into a wild environment, so we thought we might take them up to Frederick County [still rather rural at the time] and release them there."

This almost started CWII, but the crisis was averted. I almost regret this. Had Takoma Park pressed its release plan, Frederick County would have blown all the bridges, mined all the roads, and fortified the border. The northern suburban sprawl might have been stopped in its tracks right there.

11 posted on 03/03/2018 3:53:10 AM PST by sphinx
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... rat-free after rodents were caught using peanut butter and chocolate.

....
I have been caught using peanut butter and chocolate on more than one occasion, but I am now clean and Reeses-free....


12 posted on 03/03/2018 4:01:19 AM PST by Bigg Red (Francis is a Nincompope.)
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Except for 270. Gateway to the bedroom communities of Fredneck.


13 posted on 03/03/2018 4:08:41 AM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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FUNNY! I almost spit my covfefe all over my screen!


14 posted on 03/03/2018 4:16:44 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: Kipp

How do you know? Maybe they were sent to Gitmo.


15 posted on 03/03/2018 4:57:51 AM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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"...meaning none of the creatures have been recorded on the Isles for two years, meeting the internationally agreed criterion for rat-free status."

Who knew there was an internationally agreed upon criterion for such things?

16 posted on 03/03/2018 5:07:35 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: sauropod

Least the bridge from Leesburg to Poolesville hasn’t been built (yet)

Like to see at least 1/2 of the Fed agency moved to other parts of the country (like Detroit!). Would be cheaper than the cost of buying up all the property next to the beltway and 270, let alone the construction costs.


17 posted on 03/03/2018 6:16:39 AM PST by lizma2
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To: clearcarbon

This may be a good way to get rid of Democrats. Only what do you do with them?


18 posted on 03/03/2018 6:53:34 AM PST by rusureitflies? (Not much to say, yet.)
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Shiant Isles

"The Shiants is a group of rocky islands in the Minch, lying four miles to the east of Lewis with a large seabird population including a colony of tens of thousands of puffins. It is owned by the islands’ only (part-time) inhabitant Adam Nicolson, who inherited these islands from his father, who had bought them in 1937 after answering a newspaper ad—”Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres. . . . Puffins and seals. Apply.”


19 posted on 03/03/2018 6:57:32 AM PST by blam
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Just imagine this entire country being Rat free.

And then imagine it being rodent free.

20 posted on 03/03/2018 8:45:08 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama & Hillary: The Two Most Corrupt Politicians of My Lifetime.)
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