10,000 Birds
MAY 31, 2015
In German, if you are a rodent and you are smaller than – say – a human hand, you’re a mouse. If however you are a larger “mouse”-like rodent you are a rat. Sometimes, red foxes can even be observed hunting during the day when rodents and fox babies are plentiful. No “gophers” etc.
Critter News
DECEMBER 27, 2010
I recently fostered the sweetest little rat and I currently have two mice. While both rats and mice have similarities to humans, rats win out in key areas. Therefore, this Boston Globe article saddens me on both levels. And, of course, our old friend, Charles River Laboratories, will be a major supplier of lab rats.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2013
A wildlife rehabilitator friend, newly licensed, recently called to ask if he could feed a recovering Turkey Vulture anything besides defrosted rodents. Normally I feed vultures, as well as hawks and owls, defrosted mice and rats. Did I have an answer for him. Sometimes a defrosted chick. So: a broken-winged vulture came in.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2014
Mice/rats in your house or business? When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. When queried, he admitted he had recently hired a local company to get rid of the mice in his house. A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 12, 2018
Invasive species , particularly rodents, have long been a problem on the Hawaiian archipelago. Midway, which was once a military facility, has long had mice and it once had rats, though they were eradicated in 1996. In 2015, mice suddenly started attacking albatrosses sitting on nests and attacks have been steadily increasing since.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2014
The Carolina Wren pictured above was caught in a Walmart in a trap set for rodents. I tell people DO NOT try to remove the bird,” says Maureen Eiger of Wildlife Care Alliance in Virginia, who gets calls from people who put glue traps in their garage, leave the garage door open, and catch birds instead of mice. See Safe Rodent Control.
4 The Love Of Animals
DECEMBER 8, 2011
As the weather starts getting colder, there may be a problem with rodents coming into our homes to look for a warm place to nest. Since wild mice and rats carry disease, ruin household foundations and leave a general mess everywhere… it is very wise to get rid of them as soon as possible. Rat poisons can be fatal even in small amounts.
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