Posted by atec7 7 on June 24, 2010, 8:54 am
Loosecanon wrote:
>> David Hare-Scott wrote:
>>> I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
>>> Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away. Each
>>> has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small bits of
>>> skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly eaten all
>>> the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in it. No bird
>>> or animal has been sighted nearby. There are no identifiable bite marks
>>> anywhere to give away the culprit.
>>>
>>> The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat
>>> on the ground.
>>>
>>> A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.
>>>
>>> There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave when
>>> they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one ever
>>> seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing the
>>> least amount of skin.
>>>
>>> Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
>>> oranges and there are no droppings.
>>>
>>> I am thinking it is a possum.
>>>
>>> Any views?
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Rat
>>
>> bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the truck
>
> Egads a big rat! haha
>
>
I saw rats in africa almost a metre long , google it
oh and rrrrrrtrunk
Posted by FarmI on June 27, 2010, 7:01 am
> bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the truck
Huh? Can you explain?
Posted by atec7 7 on June 23, 2010, 7:43 am
David Hare-Scott wrote:
> I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
> Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away.
> Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small
> bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly
> eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in
> it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There are no
> identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.
>
> The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat
> on the ground.
>
> A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.
>
> There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave
> when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one
> ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing
> the least amount of skin.
>
> Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
> oranges and there are no droppings.
>
> I am thinking it is a possum.
>
> Any views?
>
> David
>
>
>
>
>
Rat
Bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the trunk
Posted by FarmI on June 27, 2010, 7:03 am
> Rat
> Bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the trunk
LOL. I think I now get it - last post had a typo?? I had wondered if you'd
figured out a new way of using a truck battery to kill rats :-)) Now that
sounded very promising.
Posted by atec7 7 on June 27, 2010, 7:22 am
FarmI wrote:
>
>> Rat
>> Bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the trunk
>
> LOL. I think I now get it - last post had a typo?? I had wondered if you'd
> figured out a new way of using a truck battery to kill rats :-)) Now that
> sounded very promising.
>
>
You will find the bait is quite difficult to remove hence markedly
increasing the chance of triggering the trap , wired to the tree trunk
does as well when placed in the normal transit path of the prey
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>>> I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
>>> Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away. Each
>>> has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small bits of
>>> skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly eaten all
>>> the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in it. No bird
>>> or animal has been sighted nearby. There are no identifiable bite marks
>>> anywhere to give away the culprit.
>>>
>>> The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat
>>> on the ground.
>>>
>>> A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.
>>>
>>> There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave when
>>> they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one ever
>>> seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing the
>>> least amount of skin.
>>>
>>> Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
>>> oranges and there are no droppings.
>>>
>>> I am thinking it is a possum.
>>>
>>> Any views?
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Rat
>>
>> bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the truck
>
> Egads a big rat! haha
>
>