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Humane rat control?

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Hello, We have some big fat rats in our backyard. At night I hear things on the roof but dont know if its possums, cats, rats, who knows. Can I transport them away? They seem to know each other. They hang out in one of our trees. Ive seen 3. I think they might be taking shelter in an old decrepit shed. I dont want to kill them.

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Ravenswood Winery: Besieged (2014)

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It’s no secret that beer and wine share a common heritage that dates back to the earliest days of human civilization. Thanks to industrialization and modern transportation, the various labors required to make beer are often separated by great distances and divided by vocation. Of course, habitats of all sorts attract wildlife.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. To understand the impulse, we need to go back to New Zealand in the Victorian era, in the early days of European settlement.