Things I've learned about rats:

- they can jump, more so if they're trying to escape
- they can swim through the trap on a flush toilet
- they can climb up or down the INSIDE of a 4 inch plumbing pipe
- they can squeeze through an opening the size of a quarter if they
have to
- they will chew through a gyproc wall in seconds to escape - it's
astonishing
- I am told they never stop growing - I have caught them 16 inches to
tip of tail
- if you have one, you have a lot more than that
- if you don't think you have any, they're probably there anyway

Do whatever you can to discourage them - owls or not. In my experience
the owls only take the young ones.


Bruce Whittington
Ladysmith, BC
mailto: fieldnat at pacificcoast.net