[NatureNS] discouraging update on my Oct. 17 rat in Wolfville

Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 14:49:36 -0300
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Oct. 20, 2007 - Here is a discouraging update on the NORWAY RAT reported at
my Wolfville feeders on Oct. 17.  I was elated this morning to discover that
an adult had been successfully dead-trapped in our garden shed, which is
used to house the feeders every night (on account of raccoon raids).  But
imagine our chagrine when this afternoon we discovered a LITTER OF AT LEAST
FOUR RATLETS, all weaned? and foraging for themselves at the same feeders!
I doubt that the trapped adult was their mother, although I didnąt look at
it for any time before getting rid of it.

Cheers :-) from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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Jim (James W.) Wolford
91 Wickwire Avenue 
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
B4P 1W3
phone (902)542-9204 (home)
fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.)
e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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