#WHO WAS IN THE RAT PACK PICTURE SERIES#

One of the things that you should NEVER DO is use poison, it is proven to be ineffective in controlling rodent populations as when you kill off one, you make room for one.

#WHO WAS IN THE RAT PACK PICTURE SERIES#

Pack rats are adorable as seen in the following series of photos, but it is important to take steps to protect your property. I think that the estimate for repairs was roughly $2,600.00. It seems that our babies parents may have been involved in what happened. Upon taking a look under the hood I discovered that there was extensive damage to the wiring and hoses. Our next adventure with pack rats announced its presence by having the car quit on me in the middle of an intersection across town. The exterior of the Tucson Wildlife Center in Tucson, Arizona. Mother white throated wood rat AKA pack rat with baby in her midden under a prickly pear cactus. The rats tend to favor tunneling around the base of prickly pear cactus and piling thorny pads and other sharp objects near the entrances to their homes to deter would be intruders. It was a very interesting story and we soon noted that there were what appeared to be several middens or rat dens on our property. Plant material, historical artifacts and more encased in an amber like material and buried in the sand soil of the desert. Apparently the rats collected material and preserved it inn urine filled clumps that crystallized, and preserved the contents. One of our neighbors who was an archaeologist and geologist prior to retiring, told us stories about how the rats collected objects and became important in his line of work. Shortly after moving to Tucson, smack dab in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, we had locals bringing up the both loved and hated animals. Before moving to Arizona a few years ago, our family had never heard of pack rats. Pack rats AKA white throated wood rats are one desert native that is both adorable and incredibly destructive.

Who was in the rat pack picture