{"id":4670,"date":"2015-10-12T18:56:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T18:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4670"},"modified":"2015-10-12T18:56:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T18:56:17","slug":"cannibalistic-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4670","title":{"rendered":"Cannibalistic rat"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have a small population of rats in the garden. In one area they have tunnelled under a concrete pad under our summerhouse. I have tried to get rid of them with poison but they don’t seem to eat it. So I set up a snap trap and a cage trap, baited with some cheese. At first nothing happened but the next night we caught a rat:<\/p>\n

\"rat<\/a>This first image shows the small rat on the cage trap.<\/p>\n

Then it was tempted by the cheese in the snap trap:<\/p>\n

\"rat<\/a>It was then caught by the snap trap – you can also see the small piece of cheese that has been thrown of to the top right of the image:<\/p>\n

\"rat<\/a>Then a larger rat dragged it away and started eating it:<\/p>\n

\"rat<\/a>I did not know that rats were cannibalistic, but it seems they do this for 2 reasons: 1) to reduce the risk of smell attracting predators, and 2) it is a source of food.<\/p>\n

I made a short video of the cannibalistic rat at work:<\/p>\n

 
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