Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2012 2:44:18 GMT -5
My neighbors feed the deer, wild turkeys, bears, hummingbirds, finches, sparrows, cardinals, various songbirds etc with multiple feeding stations around the yard. Of course this banquet brings raccoons, possums, armadillos and the inevitable tree rat - great grey chittering fluffy tailed tree rats!
tree rats that don't just simply eat from the buffet but insist upon scattering the foodstuffs out of the containers!
So the neighbor wages war on the tree rats. First by trying to discourage them from climbing the feeder poles with globs of grease. Bu the tree rats can fly. They dive bomb the feeders from over hanging branches and commence to broadcasting the seeds!
When discouragement fails time after time the neighbor lays down the law with a pellet gun. Result - two expired tree rats - one female, one male.
Knock on the door at wee hours of the morning - well since I work nights - morning wee hours happen at 10 am. Hazy eyed, I greet him at the door and thank him for the ferret's breakfast!
Ferrets immediately press their noses against the cages. I'd caged them the night before because I planned to be washing floors in the morning. Noses twitching, whiskers vibrating a couple wrap their canines around the bars and begin pulling. They wanted tree rat! NOW!
I had intentions of skinning the squirrels and feeding drawn and quartered raw meaty bones. But the ferrets demanded WHOLE PREY! NOW!
So I picked out the pellets. Holding one bushy tail I opened the cage and three ferrets practically tumbled out - grabbing at the squirrel they tugged it inside. Nakita went for its jugular and commenced to shaking the already dead beast violently. Hissing at the others, she straddled the squirrel and tried to hide it in a corner.
With the crew pre-occupied I quartered the second squirrel and placed the parts in other cages. I have 4 ferret nation cages set up as single levels but side by side. So there is a long row of cages. By cutting the bars I have openings that have tunnels inserted.This allows the ferrets free access from cage to cage and about 40 feet of tunnels to travel! So being shut in their bank of cages isn't actually a horrible thing for them.
Anyway, I put pieces of the squirrel, fur on, in the various cages. I gently extract the first squirrel from Nakita's vice grip and hack it up too. Put the pieces back in the cages and everybody manages to travel to a cage where they can find their own savory piece.
No more growling, hissing, barking - just crunch crunch crunch. Some have poof tails as they eat!
I go to work and when I return all that's left of the squirrels are the boy's cahones, a mass of digested corn and guts, one head, two tails and 8 paws! Why don't they eat the feet?
Sorry guys, its plain old Cornish Game hen tonight....
tree rats that don't just simply eat from the buffet but insist upon scattering the foodstuffs out of the containers!
So the neighbor wages war on the tree rats. First by trying to discourage them from climbing the feeder poles with globs of grease. Bu the tree rats can fly. They dive bomb the feeders from over hanging branches and commence to broadcasting the seeds!
When discouragement fails time after time the neighbor lays down the law with a pellet gun. Result - two expired tree rats - one female, one male.
Knock on the door at wee hours of the morning - well since I work nights - morning wee hours happen at 10 am. Hazy eyed, I greet him at the door and thank him for the ferret's breakfast!
Ferrets immediately press their noses against the cages. I'd caged them the night before because I planned to be washing floors in the morning. Noses twitching, whiskers vibrating a couple wrap their canines around the bars and begin pulling. They wanted tree rat! NOW!
I had intentions of skinning the squirrels and feeding drawn and quartered raw meaty bones. But the ferrets demanded WHOLE PREY! NOW!
So I picked out the pellets. Holding one bushy tail I opened the cage and three ferrets practically tumbled out - grabbing at the squirrel they tugged it inside. Nakita went for its jugular and commenced to shaking the already dead beast violently. Hissing at the others, she straddled the squirrel and tried to hide it in a corner.
With the crew pre-occupied I quartered the second squirrel and placed the parts in other cages. I have 4 ferret nation cages set up as single levels but side by side. So there is a long row of cages. By cutting the bars I have openings that have tunnels inserted.This allows the ferrets free access from cage to cage and about 40 feet of tunnels to travel! So being shut in their bank of cages isn't actually a horrible thing for them.
Anyway, I put pieces of the squirrel, fur on, in the various cages. I gently extract the first squirrel from Nakita's vice grip and hack it up too. Put the pieces back in the cages and everybody manages to travel to a cage where they can find their own savory piece.
No more growling, hissing, barking - just crunch crunch crunch. Some have poof tails as they eat!
I go to work and when I return all that's left of the squirrels are the boy's cahones, a mass of digested corn and guts, one head, two tails and 8 paws! Why don't they eat the feet?
Sorry guys, its plain old Cornish Game hen tonight....
and yeah they don't eat tail.paws and head here either . normal rat just tail and head are left?
Fizzle especially gives Nakita what for.