Posted on 02/07/2025 12:37:59 PM PST by DallasBiff
The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) is one of the most ubiquitous and familiar creatures on the planet — but also perhaps one of the least understood.
According to Kaylee Byers, one of the lead researchers with the Vancouver Rat Project, "In some ways, we know more about life on Mars than how rats navigate life on Earth."
"Rats have long been associated with filth, disease and death," said Bobby Corrigan, a world-renowned rodentologist and New York City's unofficial "rat czar."
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Get a good cat—or a Rat Terror Dog.
Get a better cat.
I’ve got six barn cats, they do help!
Packrats/ trade-rats/ woodrats are pretty serious animals. Traps and shooting work, though.
Integrated circuitry can be cleaned. If there was a hole big enough for rodents to move in, it’s a bad design, or missing parts.
Largest Rat King...
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That Is Bizarre!
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The Animal Kingdom are God’s Creation also ,Of course there is a Pecking order.
I guess they’ve never seen the ones that live in the General Mills grain mills in Buffalo.
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Are these the silos near the river in downtown Bufallo? Was there a few years ago; interesting place!
The reason rats are chewing up more cords as of year 2,000 they started using soy based insulation for electric wiring instead of petroleum based. It is food for the rats.
That is why they are eating the wiring out of cars.
Having the wiring ate twice I know put a small ozone machine under the hood and plug it in at night like you do an engine heater.
“Hopefully, I can get rid of the one in my attic, soon.”
The 5 gallon bucket traps work well. Next time I do one I’m going to just try a half bucket of water and some peanut butter smeared around above the water line.
Actually, on the grain dryer, it was mice. But we also had electrical raccoon damage on the combine wiring that had to be replaced, too.
We have cats. We have guns. We have poison. We have traps. We have Coca-cola and Golden Malrin. It is a blood bath of moles to pocket gophers. But it's a constant battle with acreage and many, many buildings.
Rats laugh at bucket traps, here in Pa. They can swim better than mice, too.
I’ve read that rodents won’t enter an area where they can smell cats, probably particularly cat urine.
Selections from the 4795 'rat' keyword topics, most of them appear to be about DemocRats, btw. :^)
A lot of people enjoy Pecking duck orders.
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Around here most of the serious damage is caused from rats chewing holes in PEX plumbing tubes in walls, ceilings, and floors that they come across. But I grew up with horses, cows, chickens and other farm animals and we had a constant battle trying to keep them from getting into and spoiling feed.
From the article, “If anyone ever brings me a two-pound Norway rat, I will write them a cheque for $500,” he said. “It's never gonna happen!”
I grew up next to a city with a port and across the street from the city dump. The land that the dump was located on was taken from my family by eminent domain. Growing up I saw some huge rats... But my dad won the “booby prize” at a home builders association event. Whoever won the rat was supposed to take care of it for 3 months until the next quarterly get-together.
I was the one who was told to take care of the rat. He was a massive brown rat. He easily weighed at least two pounds. He as big as our cat. He was tame, but easily upset by loud noises and people he didn't recognize. He had led a life that I would characterize as being sad and neglected. He came in a large cage; he had received very little attention and ate pretty much whatever was put in his food bowl and drank water out of a watering device that was attached to the side of his cage.
While I was taking care of him, I let him wander around my room and let him sit on my lap. I bought him some toys meant for Guinee pigs, hamsters, and other rodents. After three months we had built a relationship. I felt bad letting him go. He was an easy pet to take care of and was always excited to see me.
I know that they can be a nuisance, and that their populations must be controlled. But as pets they tend to be low maintenance and do have some redeeming qualities.
I had trouble with a hoarder-neighbor’s collection drawing rodents and other vermin. One car had the seatbelts chewed through and another had the wiring harness eaten.
I put cotton balls soaked with pure peppermint oil in several strategic places in the trunk, passenger compartment and under the hood of my vehicles and never had another problem.
Mint irritates rodents and they avoid it.
Yup.
You can see them from the 190 and Skyway.
I’m not a Chinese food fan myself, but I’d imagine Peking duck comes with a pretty big bill...
They make nice pets
My boa constrictor really enjoyed them. Could eat six or seven at one time
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