charly hunter

Another good read pard, we may not be able to get rid of them all but it is fun trying

Once again Jay a good read, I'd like to add to it if I may,

As you said they bread very quickly, and it is said that the eradication of the brown rat will be impossible. The rat can bread every 4 weeks and when a rat is born as soon as it reaches 4 weeks of age it will start to bread. Also the rat is one of if not the only one in the animal kingdom that if there is a rat in the colony that is born or becomes disabled and can not fend for itself then all the others in it's family will provide food for it so that it will survive. So as you can see it would truly be a mammoth task to eradicate the rat. This may be a desease spreading pest but you have to admire how it really knows how to look after itself and how to survive all odds.