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Rats are extremely predatory, I once as a kid worked at a Reptile importer and a handful of rats escaped, they destroyed the mice from under their screen/grated
by shaneofalltrad 11mo ago
Rats are extremely predatory, I once as a kid worked at a Reptile importer and a handful of rats escaped, they destroyed the mice from under their screen/grated cages. Almost as traumatic as when I learned how to dispatch an adult rat on the side of the table before feeding it off to the reptiles at 15 years old.
- SoftTalker 11mo agoHm, maybe I should get some rats to keep the mice out of my house. Of course then I'd have rats.
- ipaddr 11mo agoIf you have mice you won't have rats. Mice can be a positive sign.
- delichon 11mo agoI have both. I've trapped both in the same trap on the same night.
- mikkupikku 11mo agoGet yourself a nice black rat snake. (Unironically, it drives me up a wall when I hear about people trying to exterminate snakes and spiders; the only reason those are around is because their food is.)
- chairmansteve 11mo agoI have a black widow problem. Their food is flying insects.... Any tips?
- mikkupikku 11mo agoI wouldn't worry about them. A few thousand people get bit by them every year but there hasn't been a fatality in decades. They're very unlikely to bite and very unlikely to cause any harm at all even if they do bite. Maybe get some sticky fly paper though.
- marcosdumay 11mo agoWhat eats them? (Really, from a distance they seem unbeatable.)
- SoftTalker 11mo agoWasps
- dwd 11mo agoDaddy long-legs are known predators of Australian red-backs, while the American cellar spider supposedly hunts black widows.
- marcosdumay 11mo ago> the only reason those are around is because their food is For some reason everybody in my city is proudly boasting bout the recent large capybara population... And again, for some reason those same people didn't react well when jaguars decided to show up in the urban area. People are stupid.
- zdragnar 11mo agoWe have all of the above and more. Alas, my wife is more afraid of our rat and pine snakes than she is of mice and rats. Fortunately, the pine snakes only try to move into our house and sheds once or twice a year or so.
- 3rodents 11mo agoRats are brilliant animals, they’re just tiny dogs. If you treat your rats well, they would have no reason to attack mice and would co-exist (although your rats would probably get sick because of disease. Pet rats (fancy rats) are illness prone.)
- wiether 11mo agoNext step: get some turtles!
- shadyKeystrokes 11mo ago[dead]
- 3rodents 11mo agoRats are not predatory, they’re resourceful. You didn’t witness what rats do in the wild, you witnessed abused rats doing whatever they could to survive. Rats will eat mice if they need to but they will not seek them out when other food sources are available. You can’t judge the behavior of rodents when they are feeders. Mice would do the same thing. As would you and I.
- threatofrain 11mo agoBut then we see the rats hunting bats...