Rats.....

[greenbarn]

Well, sounds like Mr. Pack Rat is ready to be "Evicted" himself....  I don't think we have "pack-rats" around here (well, my wife would beg to differ with that.... ) .  Isn't  the pack-rat the big-headed, big-eared, bushy-tailed variety?  We have the small-eared skinny tailed version her, that just looks like a 10X mouse.  These do stink a lot - like mice but worse... In the cities you're likely to see them anywhere, once when I lived in town years ago during college I saw one the size of a possum in an alley once!!  Around here in the country they only tend to live (usually) in barns around livestock. We had them in our barn once several years ago - never saw one, but there were holes and burrows I found so promptly put out some poison.  Does that work for Pack-Rats?

Good luck trapping that beast.  Are these things usually solitary?  Here, you usually don't have "a rat".... 

[49Reo]

Yes, Rats. My neighbor, a rather "unsavory" fellow, the type that cuts his lawn and finds complete vehicles, is moving out...read that "evicted". As a result, during the cleanup, cleaning out the, er, garage, a falling down oversized shed he stored "stuff" in, a pack rat decided to move to a more peaceful location. Yes, lucky me, he is now in my lumber pile, stinking things up something fierce. So, traps are dug out, cleaned, baited, and ready to wreak havoc on the entire rat population that DARES to set foot on my property. I HATE those things. I have a scar on the middle finger of my right hand from a knife fight with one when I was 12 or 13 years old; he was intent on killing the wiring harness in a vehicle, and I was intent on killing him first, with my pocket knife. I won, but not without casualtys to the troop. Hey, c'mon, it has to be "troop", I was by myself, unless you include the dog that was trying for first blood. On the rat, not me. Anyway, I won that war; wish me luck on this one.

Did I mention that I hate rats?