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David Hare-Scott[_2_] 23-06-2010 08:18 AM

A smart new winter garden predator
 
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away. Each
has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small bits of
skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly eaten all the
flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in it. No bird or
animal has been sighted nearby. There are no identifiable bite marks
anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat on
the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave when
they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one ever
seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing the least
amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before oranges
and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David






Anne Chambers[_2_] 23-06-2010 09:30 AM

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David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away. Each
has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small bits
of skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly eaten
all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in it. No
bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There are no identifiable bite
marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat
on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave when
they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one ever
seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing the
least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David


Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the plums and apples too
--
Anne Chambers
South Australia

anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com

loosecanon 23-06-2010 12:13 PM

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"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away. Each
has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small bits of
skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly eaten all the
flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in it. No bird or
animal has been sighted nearby. There are no identifiable bite marks
anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat on
the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave when
they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one ever
seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing the least
amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David






Rats can bore out the round holes. They have done it to my pomegranates.
They did it also to my neighbours Oranges, also grapefruit 3 houses away and
i have seen guavas with the same damage.



Dan[_9_] 23-06-2010 12:22 PM

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"Anne Chambers" wrote in message
...
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away. Each
has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small bits
of skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly eaten
all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in it. No
bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There are no identifiable bite
marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat
on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave when
they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one ever
seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing the
least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David


Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the
plums and apples too
--
Anne Chambers
South Australia

anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com


I live in North Queensland. I have possums living in my shed. They run
across the roof at night. They sound like a herd of elephants having an
orgy. I have oranges, lemons, grapefruit, and mandarins. I have never seen
any fruit eaten in such a way. Now cockatoos, flying foxes, and parrots -
they are my enemies.
Cheers,
Dan



atec7 7[_2_] 23-06-2010 12:42 PM

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David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away.
Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small
bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly
eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in
it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There are no
identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat
on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one
ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing
the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David





Rat

bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the truck

atec7 7[_2_] 23-06-2010 12:43 PM

A smart new winter garden predator
 
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away.
Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small
bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly
eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in
it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There are no
identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat
on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one
ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing
the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David





Rat
Bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the trunk

loosecanon 23-06-2010 12:45 PM

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"atec7 7" ""atec77\"@ hotmail.com" wrote in message
...
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away. Each
has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small bits of
skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly eaten all
the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in it. No bird
or animal has been sighted nearby. There are no identifiable bite marks
anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat
on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave when
they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one ever
seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing the
least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David





Rat

bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the truck


Egads a big rat! haha



atec7 7[_2_] 24-06-2010 01:54 PM

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Loosecanon wrote:
"atec7 7" ""atec77\"@ hotmail.com" wrote in message
...
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away. Each
has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small bits of
skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly eaten all
the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in it. No bird
or animal has been sighted nearby. There are no identifiable bite marks
anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat
on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave when
they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one ever
seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing the
least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David





Rat

bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the truck


Egads a big rat! haha


I saw rats in africa almost a metre long , google it
oh and rrrrrrtrunk

David Hare-Scott[_2_] 25-06-2010 12:45 AM

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Anne Chambers wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating
them. Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres
away. Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across,
the small bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has
then neatly eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin
with a hole in it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There
are no identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot
eat on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that
big. There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest
one ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while
chewing the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David


Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the
plums and apples too


The beggars got another 6 last night so I pulled the oranges, tangelos and
mandarins. We will see if they eat cumquats or lemons.

David


David Hare-Scott[_2_] 25-06-2010 12:47 AM

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Dan wrote:
"Anne Chambers" wrote in message
...
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating
them. Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres
away. Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across,
the small bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has
then neatly eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin
with a hole in it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There
are no identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot
eat on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that
big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the
neatest one ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh
while chewing the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David


Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the
plums and apples too
--
Anne Chambers
South Australia

anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com


I live in North Queensland. I have possums living in my shed. They run
across the roof at night. They sound like a herd of elephants having
an orgy. I have oranges, lemons, grapefruit, and mandarins. I have
never seen any fruit eaten in such a way. Now cockatoos, flying
foxes, and parrots - they are my enemies.
Cheers,
Dan


There is nothing else fruiting here right now so they cannot be too picky.

David

loosecanon 25-06-2010 05:02 AM

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"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
Anne Chambers wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating
them. Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres
away. Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across,
the small bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has
then neatly eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin
with a hole in it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There
are no identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot
eat on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that
big. There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest
one ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while
chewing the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David


Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the
plums and apples too


The beggars got another 6 last night so I pulled the oranges, tangelos and
mandarins. We will see if they eat cumquats or lemons.

David


I doubt they'll touch those but you never know. Lemons I have seen hollowed
out have been on the ground. I have a friend in the philippines they tell me
they use a banana by removing half the bit you eat and filling it with a one
shot rat poison. Others here have nailed poison wax blocks onto their trees.

Two types of rats in Aus the water or black rat which burrows and the
arboreal (tree) or roof rat. Roof rats are more common where I am they love
cotton palms, date palms and trees they can hide in and they also love roof
spaces which are warm and protected. They will eat snails and flowers as
well.



atec7 7[_2_] 26-06-2010 07:50 AM

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Loosecanon wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
Anne Chambers wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating
them. Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres
away. Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across,
the small bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has
then neatly eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin
with a hole in it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There
are no identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot
eat on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that
big. There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest
one ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while
chewing the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David
Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the
plums and apples too

The beggars got another 6 last night so I pulled the oranges, tangelos and
mandarins. We will see if they eat cumquats or lemons.

David


I doubt they'll touch those but you never know. Lemons I have seen hollowed
out have been on the ground. I have a friend in the philippines they tell me
they use a banana by removing half the bit you eat and filling it with a one
shot rat poison. Others here have nailed poison wax blocks onto their trees.

Two types of rats in Aus the water or black rat which burrows and the
arboreal (tree) or roof rat. Roof rats are more common where I am they love
cotton palms, date palms and trees they can hide in and they also love roof
spaces which are warm and protected. They will eat snails and flowers as
well.


The roof rats also lurrrrve dioxin soaked bread

loosecanon 26-06-2010 08:13 AM

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"atec7 7" ""atec77\"@ hotmail.com" wrote in message
...
Loosecanon wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
Anne Chambers wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating
them. Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres
away. Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across,
the small bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has
then neatly eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin
with a hole in it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There
are no identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot
eat on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that
big. There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often
leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest
one ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while
chewing the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David
Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the
plums and apples too
The beggars got another 6 last night so I pulled the oranges, tangelos
and mandarins. We will see if they eat cumquats or lemons.

David


I doubt they'll touch those but you never know. Lemons I have seen
hollowed out have been on the ground. I have a friend in the philippines
they tell me they use a banana by removing half the bit you eat and
filling it with a one shot rat poison. Others here have nailed poison wax
blocks onto their trees.

Two types of rats in Aus the water or black rat which burrows and the
arboreal (tree) or roof rat. Roof rats are more common where I am they
love cotton palms, date palms and trees they can hide in and they also
love roof spaces which are warm and protected. They will eat snails and
flowers as well.

The roof rats also lurrrrve dioxin soaked bread


there goes the organic status!!!! hehe



SG1[_3_] 26-06-2010 10:47 AM

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"Loosecanon" wrote in message
. au...

"atec7 7" ""atec77\"@ hotmail.com" wrote in message
...
Loosecanon wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...
Anne Chambers wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating
them. Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres
away. Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across,
the small bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has
then neatly eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin
with a hole in it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There
are no identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot
eat on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that
big. There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often
leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest
one ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while
chewing the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David
Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the
plums and apples too
The beggars got another 6 last night so I pulled the oranges, tangelos
and mandarins. We will see if they eat cumquats or lemons.

David

I doubt they'll touch those but you never know. Lemons I have seen
hollowed out have been on the ground. I have a friend in the philippines
they tell me they use a banana by removing half the bit you eat and
filling it with a one shot rat poison. Others here have nailed poison
wax blocks onto their trees.

Two types of rats in Aus the water or black rat which burrows and the
arboreal (tree) or roof rat. Roof rats are more common where I am they
love cotton palms, date palms and trees they can hide in and they also
love roof spaces which are warm and protected. They will eat snails and
flowers as well.

The roof rats also lurrrrve dioxin soaked bread


there goes the organic status!!!! hehe


Was that the orgasmic status???????







loosecanon 26-06-2010 02:16 PM

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there goes the organic status!!!! hehe


Was that the orgasmic status???????





Not sure I'd like to see you in your garden anytime soon! :^)



PC 26-06-2010 03:08 PM

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On 26/06/2010 11:16 PM, Loosecanon wrote:

there goes the organic status!!!! hehe


Was that the orgasmic status???????





Not sure I'd like to see you in your garden anytime soon! :^)


Oh I don't know, orgasmic may be alright in the right age group.
Unfortunately I'm not in that group....

SG1[_3_] 26-06-2010 11:17 PM

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"PC" wrote in message
...
On 26/06/2010 11:16 PM, Loosecanon wrote:

there goes the organic status!!!! hehe

Was that the orgasmic status???????





Not sure I'd like to see you in your garden anytime soon! :^)


Oh I don't know, orgasmic may be alright in the right age group.
Unfortunately I'm not in that group....


Memories of things past. Ah Memories



David Hare-Scott[_2_] 26-06-2010 11:37 PM

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PC wrote:
On 26/06/2010 11:16 PM, Loosecanon wrote:

there goes the organic status!!!! hehe

Was that the orgasmic status???????





Not sure I'd like to see you in your garden anytime soon! :^)


Oh I don't know, orgasmic may be alright in the right age group.
Unfortunately I'm not in that group....


The too old group is always 20 years older than I am.

David

PC 27-06-2010 12:52 AM

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On 27/06/2010 8:37 AM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
PC wrote:
On 26/06/2010 11:16 PM, Loosecanon wrote:

there goes the organic status!!!! hehe

Was that the orgasmic status???????





Not sure I'd like to see you in your garden anytime soon! :^)


Oh I don't know, orgasmic may be alright in the right age group.
Unfortunately I'm not in that group....


The too old group is always 20 years older than I am.

David

When ever sex rears its head, there's always responses....
They say I do, but not with you!!!!

atec7 7[_2_] 27-06-2010 03:13 AM

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Loosecanon wrote:
"atec7 7" ""atec77\"@ hotmail.com" wrote in message
...

there goes the organic status!!!! hehe


I doubt it does more harm to the environ than the 410 pellets and it is
nice and quite

FarmI 27-06-2010 12:01 PM

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"atec7 7" ""atec77\"@ hotmail.com" wrote in message

bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the truck


Huh? Can you explain?



FarmI 27-06-2010 12:03 PM

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"atec7 7" ""atec77\"@ hotmail.com" wrote in message

Rat
Bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the trunk


LOL. I think I now get it - last post had a typo?? I had wondered if you'd
figured out a new way of using a truck battery to kill rats :-)) Now that
sounded very promising.



atec7 7[_2_] 27-06-2010 12:22 PM

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FarmI wrote:
"atec7 7" ""atec77\"@ hotmail.com" wrote in message

Rat
Bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the trunk


LOL. I think I now get it - last post had a typo?? I had wondered if you'd
figured out a new way of using a truck battery to kill rats :-)) Now that
sounded very promising.


You will find the bait is quite difficult to remove hence markedly
increasing the chance of triggering the trap , wired to the tree trunk
does as well when placed in the normal transit path of the prey

terryc 27-06-2010 03:14 PM

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:43:15 +1000, atec7 7 wrote:


Rat
Bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the trunk


That is distressing. Wasting liquorice like that.

Reminds me of the pound's advice on how to tempt a difficult to catch tom
cat into the trap; mortadella. Well, it worked. We decided the cat
wasn't get all of it and we'd have a little for lunch and during lunch
the cat promptly walked into the trap which I'd moved to the backdeck
just before lunch to bait after lunch..


loosecanon 28-06-2010 07:09 AM

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"terryc" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:43:15 +1000, atec7 7 wrote:


Rat
Bait the trap with liquorice and wire to the trunk


That is distressing. Wasting liquorice like that.

Reminds me of the pound's advice on how to tempt a difficult to catch tom
cat into the trap; mortadella. Well, it worked. We decided the cat
wasn't get all of it and we'd have a little for lunch and during lunch
the cat promptly walked into the trap which I'd moved to the backdeck
just before lunch to bait after lunch..


Did you make a Daniel Boone type hat? Wait you didn't bait it?

As a matter of interest was your trap like this or did it have a trip
plate: -

http://www.bellsouth.com.au/images/16.1/ptrap.JPG

Mine has a hook at the back which supposedly the cat pushes and the door
falls down. I have lent the trap to people and they used cooked porterhouse
steak to catch the cats.



terryc 28-06-2010 01:59 PM

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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:09:34 +0800, Loosecanon wrote:


Did you make a Daniel Boone type hat? Wait you didn't bait it?


Nope, we just took it to the pound like the two catches before it and
they destroy them for free.
The load after was the four kittens, of which two were very friendly. The
pound keeps kittens for a while and if selected, they get the full
treatment(desexed, vaccinated and chipped) before being handed over.


As a matter of interest was your trap like this or did it have a trip
plate: -

http://www.bellsouth.com.au/images/16.1/ptrap.JPG

No.

Mine has a hook at the back which supposedly the cat pushes and the door
falls down. I have lent the trap to people and they used cooked
porterhouse steak to catch the cats.


Ours has a tray which, when the animal treads on it releases a catch
letting the door drop. Trick is to put the food in a little container
right up the other end.

Generally we just used cheap cat nibbles. if they don't work at first, we
will drop a thin trail (1/foot) leading away from the cage. Twigged to
that when we threw some old nibbles out onto our unmown lawn and our cat
thought it was great fun to go around sniffing the lawn and finding them
(after ignoring them for a week inside).




loosecanon 28-06-2010 03:49 PM

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"terryc" wrote in message
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On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:09:34 +0800, Loosecanon wrote:


Did you make a Daniel Boone type hat? Wait you didn't bait it?


Nope, we just took it to the pound like the two catches before it and
they destroy them for free.
The load after was the four kittens, of which two were very friendly. The
pound keeps kittens for a while and if selected, they get the full
treatment(desexed, vaccinated and chipped) before being handed over.


As a matter of interest was your trap like this or did it have a trip
plate: -

http://www.bellsouth.com.au/images/16.1/ptrap.JPG

No.

Mine has a hook at the back which supposedly the cat pushes and the door
falls down. I have lent the trap to people and they used cooked
porterhouse steak to catch the cats.


Ours has a tray which, when the animal treads on it releases a catch
letting the door drop. Trick is to put the food in a little container
right up the other end.

Generally we just used cheap cat nibbles. if they don't work at first, we
will drop a thin trail (1/foot) leading away from the cage. Twigged to
that when we threw some old nibbles out onto our unmown lawn and our cat
thought it was great fun to go around sniffing the lawn and finding them
(after ignoring them for a week inside).




Thanks for that!



Jeßus[_8_] 13-07-2010 06:27 AM

A smart new winter garden predator
 
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:18:29 +1000, "David Hare-Scott"
wrote:

I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating them.
Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres away. Each
has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across, the small bits of
skin were left scattered about. The predator has then neatly eaten all the
flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin with a hole in it. No bird or
animal has been sighted nearby. There are no identifiable bite marks
anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot eat on
the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that big.

There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave when
they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest one ever
seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while chewing the least
amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before oranges
and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.


It's a possum alright :)

The Old Bloke[_2_] 04-03-2011 04:30 AM

A smart new winter garden predator
 
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:45:58 +1000, "David Hare-Scott"
wrote:

Anne Chambers wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating
them. Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres
away. Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across,
the small bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has
then neatly eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin
with a hole in it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There
are no identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot
eat on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that
big. There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest
one ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while
chewing the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David


Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the
plums and apples too


The beggars got another 6 last night so I pulled the oranges, tangelos and
mandarins. We will see if they eat cumquats or lemons.

David


The possums don't eat my lemons, but they do eat the leaves of the
lemon tree!

The Old Bloke[_2_] 05-03-2011 06:39 AM

A smart new winter garden predator
 
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011 08:11:17 +1000, "SG1" wrote:


"atec77" wrote in message
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On 4/03/2011 2:30 PM, The Old Bloke wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:45:58 +1000, "David Hare-Scott"
wrote:

Anne Chambers wrote:
David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have ripe oranges on the tree. Something is stealing and eating
them. Four fruit have been taken off the tree and left a few metres
away. Each has a neat round hole cut in the side about 5cm across,
the small bits of skin were left scattered about. The predator has
then neatly eaten all the flesh of the orange leaving an empty skin
with a hole in it. No bird or animal has been sighted nearby. There
are no identifiable bite marks anywhere to give away the culprit.

The bats have left for warmer latitudes and in any case they cannot
eat on the ground.

A mouse couldn't move the whole fruit and wouldn't need a hole that
big. There are no stray gouges from teeth marks that rats so often
leave
when they eat something sizeable so if it is a rat it is the neatest
one ever seen who was very focussed on getting to the flesh while
chewing the least amount of skin.

Rabbits would go for all manner of other things in the garden before
oranges and there are no droppings.

I am thinking it is a possum.

Any views?

David

Possum - they have got all my grapefruit, the b+++++s got most of the
plums and apples too

The beggars got another 6 last night so I pulled the oranges, tangelos
and
mandarins. We will see if they eat cumquats or lemons.

David

The possums don't eat my lemons, but they do eat the leaves of the
lemon tree!

Sometimes installing a red light into the try being assaulted , bats and
possums don't seem to like bright red lights


Just don't put it above the door......

hahaha


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