In article , "Bryan"
wrote:

Something was moving about in my apple tree at 4:30 in the morning. I
figured bird. If it's a bird it's a funny moving bird.
I threw some water at the tree and watched the critter move; it didn't hop.
It ran from one limb to another.
So, what's my likely pest?
Rat? Something else? I didn't know rats climbed apple trees. I'm not
surprised, just didn't know.
Suburban location Sonoma County.
Remedy? Remember, I can't shoot it (suburban location).

Many years ago in Seattle, I looked out my apartment window into a cherry
tree, & there was a family or rats sitting in a row on their haunches
eating cherries, their naked tales hanging down. They were so cute.
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