Subject: rat in suet feeder
Date: Apr 6 09:40:26 2004
From: Susan Carmel - sucarmel at comcast.net


Tweeters,
Yesterday afternoon I saw that a rat was snacking in my suet feeder. I'm assuming it was a rat--not large enough to be a Norway rat, but too large to be a mouse. ( I think!) It was your basic medium gray rat color, whiter feet, hairless tail, large ears, large eyes, pointy snoot. The feeder is one of those caged, squirrel-proof ones, hanging on a pole about 6 feet high.
I'm wondering if I need to take down my feeder, or if a squirrel baffle would do the trick. There is a bush nearby that it could conceivably have jumped from, if that's something rats do, though I've never seen a squirrel even attempt that.. I guess I'm also wondering if I have to take immediate action based on one rat sighting.
Any ID help and info will be appreciated....
Susan Carmel
NE Seattle
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