Dealing with tree rats

[seabot2]

Wait a minute, tree rats are squirrels? We don't have squirrels in my parts, but lots of rats.

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[jmoore]

tree rats are squirrels?

And quite tasty! Especially the young ones.

Just why they'll go after some structures and not others is a mystery. They would attack a friend's house a mile or so away, and our outbuilding, but don't do much to my house. As far as actual rats, they don't seem to come inside much except when we've dried corn or seed that's not inside sealed metal containers. The odor must be irresistable! (That and once we didn't get all of an old honeybee hive cleared out of the ceiling. The rats liked the honey so well they ate the honey soaked sheetrock.)