To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Identify That Critter
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 08:47:19 -0500
Speaking of rats the size of cats, I notice big ones in my chicken pen
but I have no idea how to get them out without endangering the
chickens & ducks. Poison or rat traps wouldn't work.
~mIEKAL
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Jim Fruth <jimfruth@charter.net> wrote:
> When I lived in Central California, I used to visit a friend who lived
> in a palace of a house in the swankiest area of town. In the evening, when
> we sat by the pool, we could watch rats, rats almost as big as cats, move
> from one house to another across the telephone cable from pole to pole. The
> rats made forays into yards to raid fruit, and whatever, in the various
> yards. During the day, they lived in the tangle of ivy that lined every
> privacy fence.
>
> Jim Fruth