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Post by jamesp on May 24, 2016 14:06:50 GMT -5
Could not figure this guy out. Eating the tubers of a South American aquatic plant. Did a fair amount of damage. He was trap smart, never could catch him. havahart, foot and snap. Preferred plants over cheese. Destroyed his nest and he went elsewhere.   |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 16:26:46 GMT -5
Cheese? Rats dont eat cheese. Lmfao...
Sorry brother. Ya gotta go for raw bacon and peanut butter, either or both.....
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Post by orrum on May 24, 2016 20:52:30 GMT -5
Roast rat??? Swamp hillbilly style!!!! LOL
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Post by jamesp on May 24, 2016 21:41:53 GMT -5
Cheese? Rats dont eat cheese. Lmfao... Sorry brother. Ya gotta go for raw bacon and peanut butter, either or both..... Never trapped a rat. I tried other food, bread crackers, nuts. Particular little rascal. |
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Post by jamesp on May 24, 2016 21:42:26 GMT -5
Roast rat??? Swamp hillbilly style!!!! LOL rat fricassee |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 21:54:44 GMT -5
Cheese? Rats dont eat cheese. Lmfao... Sorry brother. Ya gotta go for raw bacon and peanut butter, either or both..... Never trapped a rat. I tried other food, bread crackers, nuts. Particular little rascal. Set up a trap near the forest with bacon and another with peanut butter. I predict 2 wins by sunrise |
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Post by jamesp on May 24, 2016 22:14:54 GMT -5
Never trapped a rat. I tried other food, bread crackers, nuts. Particular little rascal. Set up a trap near the forest with bacon and another with peanut butter. I predict 2 wins by sunrise I tracked it. (Hired two Seminoles and found it's burrow). Destroyed it. But it moved to the other greenhouse and started eating 2 leaf clover. It's a greenhouse rat, likes to burrow in junk, under nursery pots. Had a hawk in years past. About tame. He is not here this year. Need that hawk. |
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Post by spiceman on May 24, 2016 22:36:29 GMT -5
Ok, something is not right. I love peanut butter but I do like my bacon cooked. Also, my wife says I'm not a rat....sometimes a dirty pig but no rat.
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Post by jamesp on May 24, 2016 22:44:41 GMT -5
Ok, something is not right. I love peanut butter but I do like my bacon cooked. Also, my wife says I'm not a rat....sometimes a dirty pig but no rat. As long as you are not a rat all is well. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on May 25, 2016 13:28:05 GMT -5
James, sounds like your rat is a vegetarian. I have yet to meet a rat that did not like sunflower seeds. At my house, they also gnaw on any fallen avocados. Even though they are not ripe when they fall from the tree! Just a couple weeks ago, caught a youngster skunk in a live trap, using an avo. Relocated him to the other side of the lake.
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Post by toiv0 on May 25, 2016 18:50:05 GMT -5
The skunks I catch are relocated to the bottom of the lake. Then pulled out and a friend extracts the juice and sells it.
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Post by spiceman on May 25, 2016 19:03:49 GMT -5
Enough about the rat.
Did "rockpicker" say the other side of the ..LAKE?
What lake? Where?
I love fish in'
I said before its like rock hounding. You don't know what you have till you have it in your hands...or boat.
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Post by rockpickerforever on May 25, 2016 19:43:01 GMT -5
Dale, there is a lake - actually, it is a drinking water reservoir - just a short ways to the east of me. Maybe a quarter mile away. It was off limits for fishing for many years, but now they allow fishing Saturday through Monday. There is only one area fishing is allowed, and I would have to drive miles (maybe five) counterclockwise from home around to the other side of the lake to get to it. I have never fished there.
To drop off the skunk on the other side of the lake, you have to circle around clockwise. Again, short as the crow flies, but five or six miles to drive. It is called Sweet-water Lake (no hyphen, don' t want to get oopsed because of the perceived bad word, lol). Have found that hyphens confound the censuring program.
I laughed when I read about putting skunks at the bottom of the lake. He was actually released in a wildlife refuge. But he was so cute, and did not spray. Had he sprayed, the bottom of the lake would have become a good option...
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Post by jamesp on May 26, 2016 6:30:19 GMT -5
James, sounds like your rat is a vegetarian. I have yet to meet a rat that did not like sunflower seeds. At my house, they also gnaw on any fallen avocados. Even though they are not ripe when they fall from the tree! Just a couple weeks ago, caught a youngster skunk in a live trap, using an avo. Relocated him to the other side of the lake. He was eating the dead stinky rotten tubers in the pots for the most part. similar to Poi. But he was defoliating the living plants to get to them. Oddly his disturbance stimulated fine growth and the Sagittaria montevidensis was beautiful. with the white flowers, probably brought in to Savannah Georgia port from S America. Seeds out everywhere, pesky in large waterways  |
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Post by jamesp on May 26, 2016 6:39:03 GMT -5
The skunks I catch are relocated to the bottom of the lake. Then pulled out and a friend extracts the juice and sells it. What would the juice be used for Billy ? |
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 8:49:52 GMT -5
I'm gonna guess cover scent for trapping forbearers.
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Post by rockpickerforever on May 26, 2016 10:38:37 GMT -5
Ha ha, now that's funny, Scott... forbearers. Well not quite right to be forebearers, but close enough. I know you meant furbearers.
Would love to trap all the forbearers (especially political ones), put them in a box and give them to the postal service to abuse them than lose them, lol. Or just don't use a live trap, do 'em in quickly. Hmm, which is worse? Quick death, or slow and painful... JK, lol!!! |
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Post by rockpickerforever on May 26, 2016 10:58:50 GMT -5
He was eating the dead stinky rotten tubers in the pots for the most part. similar to Poi. But he was defoliating the living plants to get to them. Oddly his disturbance stimulated fine growth and the Sagittaria montevidensis was beautiful. with the white flowers, probably brought in to Savannah Georgia port from S America. Seeds out everywhere, pesky in large waterways Surprising what kind of hardships plants can overcome, in fact, some seem to need. Funny how that works sometimes, James. Back in like 2003, the tree hugger folks decided to protect a supposedly endangered plant out at Glamis. (Think sand dunes and creosote bushes.) Yeah, it is called the "Pierson´s Milkvetch." Despite the growing number of off-road enthusiasts out in the dunes, the greenies kept finding ways to close off the desert to protect it and the "rare" plants. They closed off large portions, making the legal riding area smaller and smaller by fencing them off and putting signs up to keep people out. Imagine their surprise a few years later, when they found that the plants in the protected areas were not doing as well as the ones being trounced by buggies, bikes and ATVs. The reason? The off-roaders were scattering seeds with their wanton destruction, lol. Those greenies found out they really didn't know what was best for everything and everyone... Cynical? Moi? Jean |
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Post by Fossilman on May 26, 2016 17:09:08 GMT -5
I caught lots of field rats with peanut butter......
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Post by toiv0 on May 26, 2016 19:06:44 GMT -5
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