Rat disappeared!
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2016 9:28 am
Morning all, bit of an odd and slightly distasteful subject here but I am stumped!
So I have chicken and occasionally I'd get the odd rat show up, these get quickly dealt with and nothing for a month or so. Anyway the critters came back but I knew I had one somewhere as there were signs in the greenhouse from digging, I went out at night armed with my tx200 and red light, surely enough I caught his eyes dart back and forth to the bait, once he stopped for a nibble I pulled the trigger for a clean head shot and Mr rat was no more.
So after this I checked on the guy and he was definitely dead! The next day he was gone, no signs of the rat and no bait, do I have a zombie rat running around? No! A couple of days later I find a decomposing rat on the lawn, it looks like something had eaten him whole and regurgitated him back up. My question is what?? I have chickens so could it be a fox.
Sorry for such a long story for such a small question.
Regards
So I have chicken and occasionally I'd get the odd rat show up, these get quickly dealt with and nothing for a month or so. Anyway the critters came back but I knew I had one somewhere as there were signs in the greenhouse from digging, I went out at night armed with my tx200 and red light, surely enough I caught his eyes dart back and forth to the bait, once he stopped for a nibble I pulled the trigger for a clean head shot and Mr rat was no more.
So after this I checked on the guy and he was definitely dead! The next day he was gone, no signs of the rat and no bait, do I have a zombie rat running around? No! A couple of days later I find a decomposing rat on the lawn, it looks like something had eaten him whole and regurgitated him back up. My question is what?? I have chickens so could it be a fox.
Sorry for such a long story for such a small question.
Regards