Whats the deal with all the Rabbit's? (Oyster Bay, Levittown: houses, live in)
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We had an increase of red fox up here as well. However, it was a boom and bust cycle. Within 2 years they were all gone due to distemper and the water RAT population zoomed out of control. We abut wetlands.
Our cottontail population has always remained about the same. Perhaps fox preferred rat? I don't know. But I NEVER want to go through another boom in rat population again!
We have rats here and I've seen a momma fox carrying a rat back to her den in my neighbor's yard. Blech. Between the water, woods and firewood piles, they've got many places to hide and (ewww) breed.
We have rats here and I've seen a momma fox carrying a rat back to her den in my neighbor's yard. Blech. Between the water, woods and firewood piles, they've got many places to hide and (ewww) breed.
She's a good mama!
Winter of '96 took care of our rat problem. We had so much snow pack covered with ice...they suffocated trying to escape their burrows.
It wasn't pleasant when the snow melted. Rat "pancakes" littered the yard.
Winter of '96 took care of our rat problem. We had so much snow pack covered with ice...they suffocated trying to escape their burrows.
It wasn't pleasant when the snow melted. Rat "pancakes" littered the yard.
I wish last year's winter would have done in the rats but no such luck. It's not that there are lots of them, but when you periodically see one scamper across the road...blech!
I wish last year's winter would have done in the rats but no such luck. It's not that there are lots of them, but when you periodically see one scamper across the road...blech!
The rat situation was so bad, our yards looked like swiss cheese from their burrow holes. The holes were about 3 inches in diameter. We tried flooding them, sealing them... even putting used kitty littter down them.. all to no avail. From snout to rump, they were about 10 inches long.
The snow took out a lot of them.. then some fox "mysteriously" reappeared......and nature's balance returned.
The rat situation was so bad, our yards looked like swiss cheese from their burrow holes. The holes were about 3 inches in diameter. We tried flooding them, sealing them... even putting used kitty littter down them.. all to no avail. From snout to rump, they were about 10 inches long.
The snow took out a lot of them.. then some fox "mysteriously" reappeared......and nature's balance returned.
Holy guacamole! You had to have been at your wits end! I would have been losing it!
Holy guacamole! You had to have been at your wits end! I would have been losing it!
I went crazy. I think... I can't prove it.. but there was unexplained evidence around.......my Dad went fox snaring on another part of the island. A catch and release cage in the woods.... and empty 50lbs bags of gravy train in the trunk of his car. He didn't have a dog and neither did I!
i went crazy. I think... I can't prove it.. But there was unexplained evidence around.......my dad went fox snaring on another part of the island. A catch and release cage in the woods.... And empty 50lbs bags of gravy train in the trunk of his car. He didn't have a dog and neither did i!
where do you live to have all those rats ?
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