Found a rats tail.
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Hi
I've found some strange things regarding wildlife in my inner city garden over the years. The wildlife I have seen in the garden in the last few months include a hedgehog, a rat, a field mouse or shrew, a family of squirrels, all manor of birds, bats and flying insects. The odd cat, although nowhere near as many as years gone by. Doves also, from a pidgeon owner who died a few years ago and I think his daughter just let them free and they live in the trees surrounding the gardens.
Anyway. This morning I found a rats tail on the garden path. Made me wonder what kind of animal would kill a rat, eat it, yet leave it's tail.
Not something I've ever seen before.
I've found some strange things regarding wildlife in my inner city garden over the years. The wildlife I have seen in the garden in the last few months include a hedgehog, a rat, a field mouse or shrew, a family of squirrels, all manor of birds, bats and flying insects. The odd cat, although nowhere near as many as years gone by. Doves also, from a pidgeon owner who died a few years ago and I think his daughter just let them free and they live in the trees surrounding the gardens.
Anyway. This morning I found a rats tail on the garden path. Made me wonder what kind of animal would kill a rat, eat it, yet leave it's tail.
Not something I've ever seen before.
IanJ9375 said:
A cat or it could have well been dropped by a seagull or something - I find numerous crusts in my garden but no dead loaf of bread lol
That's odd you say that as yesterday I found the leftovers of a cheese toasty. Not something I eat but something left it in my garden. Would a seagul eat a rat?Going back a bit - only the most senior of phers will recall - but the culling of cats during the Black Death allowed the rat population to flourish, so they clearly feast on them.
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rufusgti said:
IanJ9375 said:
A cat or it could have well been dropped by a seagull or something - I find numerous crusts in my garden but no dead loaf of bread lol
That's odd you say that as yesterday I found the leftovers of a cheese toasty. Not something I eat but something left it in my garden. Would a seagul eat a rat?
We have been having a bit of a rat problem over the last 2 to 3 years.
Apart from my neighbour having chickens, they problem started when they began to build houses in the field oposite our house.
Anyway, long story short, talking to my neigbour at the weekend, he was saying that he watched a rat and a small stout or weasel fighting on his lawn. The stout/weasel won and killed the rat.
It then did a few checks for a safe exit before returning to the rat and dragging it away, across my lawn.
That said, I don't expect he returned the tail after dinner.
Apart from my neighbour having chickens, they problem started when they began to build houses in the field oposite our house.
Anyway, long story short, talking to my neigbour at the weekend, he was saying that he watched a rat and a small stout or weasel fighting on his lawn. The stout/weasel won and killed the rat.
It then did a few checks for a safe exit before returning to the rat and dragging it away, across my lawn.
That said, I don't expect he returned the tail after dinner.
so called said:
We have been having a bit of a rat problem over the last 2 to 3 years.
Apart from my neighbour having chickens, they problem started when they began to build houses in the field oposite our house.
Anyway, long story short, talking to my neigbour at the weekend, he was saying that he watched a rat and a small stout or weasel fighting on his lawn. The stout/weasel won and killed the rat.
It then did a few checks for a safe exit before returning to the rat and dragging it away, across my lawn.
That said, I don't expect he returned the tail after dinner.
Wow, I've never seen a stout,Apart from my neighbour having chickens, they problem started when they began to build houses in the field oposite our house.
Anyway, long story short, talking to my neigbour at the weekend, he was saying that he watched a rat and a small stout or weasel fighting on his lawn. The stout/weasel won and killed the rat.
It then did a few checks for a safe exit before returning to the rat and dragging it away, across my lawn.
That said, I don't expect he returned the tail after dinner.
Or a weasel, but I've heard lots of stories. I saw a pole cat in Crete last year and have seen Mink in West Wales on the river.
Do you live far from the countryside?
rufusgti said:
so called said:
We have been having a bit of a rat problem over the last 2 to 3 years.
Apart from my neighbour having chickens, they problem started when they began to build houses in the field opposite our house.
Anyway, long story short, talking to my neigbour at the weekend, he was saying that he watched a rat and a small stout or weasel fighting on his lawn. The stout/weasel won and killed the rat.
It then did a few checks for a safe exit before returning to the rat and dragging it away, across my lawn.
That said, I don't expect he returned the tail after dinner.
Wow, I've never seen a stout,Apart from my neighbour having chickens, they problem started when they began to build houses in the field opposite our house.
Anyway, long story short, talking to my neigbour at the weekend, he was saying that he watched a rat and a small stout or weasel fighting on his lawn. The stout/weasel won and killed the rat.
It then did a few checks for a safe exit before returning to the rat and dragging it away, across my lawn.
That said, I don't expect he returned the tail after dinner.
Or a weasel, but I've heard lots of stories. I saw a pole cat in Crete last year and have seen Mink in West Wales on the river.
Do you live far from the countryside?
Actually, when I google images, I cant tell the difference between a Stout or a Weasel.
I live near Crewe on the edge of a village called Shavington.
In fact, there are only a couple of fields that separate me from Crewe.
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