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Index of Subjects I caught a beautiful, huge rat a couple of years ago on Grand Manan Island. It was light brown on the back with a light belly, twice the size of the next one I caught which was dark brown - caught in traps set outside in our BBQ during winter. I was talking to a neighbour who is about half a kilometre from my house and he said this rat was probably the offspring of a domestic white rat that had escaped from him a number of years ago and the local Norway rats. After the white rat was accidentally released, he started catching these larger light brown rats with white/light bellies. Whether this is the case or not, it could be a possibility as Ron suggested. Unfortunately the rat wasn't saved but the crows enjoyed it. Laurie Murison Grand Manan Island, NB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:35 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Wood Rats > Quoting Ronald Arsenault <rongarsenault@gmail.com>: > >> I wonder though, if the rat you caught might have been an escaped or >> intentionally released pet of some description? Or perhaps >> an exotic species was unintentionally transported to PEI with a shipment >> of >> merchandise of some type? > > * or a hairy mutant of a Norway Rat? > > fred > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm > Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > South Nation Basin Art & Science Book > http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > >
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