{"id":3860,"date":"2013-08-01T20:32:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T12:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2013-08-05T21:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:37:48","slug":"rats-in-the-rockpile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/rats-in-the-rockpile\/","title":{"rendered":"Rats in the Rockpile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130804-031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4002\" alt=\"20130804 031\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130804-031-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130804-031-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130804-031.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Shorty the sort-of-farm-dog has been very interested in the pile of rocks we have pulled out of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/08\/finishing-the-oats\/\">oat paddock<\/a> over the last few years. I found out why when walking over to feed the guinea fowl. \u00a0I saw 2 large grey-brown furry things scuttle across a couple of rocks and disappear. \u00a0I am hoping that they are a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australiassouthwest.com\/Things_to_See_and_Do\/Nature_and_Wildlife\/Animals_of_Australias_South_West\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Mammal<\/a>\u00a0like a<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_brown_bandicoot\" target=\"_blank\"> Quenda\/Southern Brown Bandicoo<\/a>t, but most of these mammals seem to be nocturnal, and I have seen our furry things between 4 and 5pm. \u00a0 We definitely have some small carnivores living near the shed as most of the mice that we caught in the traps were chewed up overnight &#8211; with only the heads in the traps left intact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shorty the sort-of-farm-dog has been very interested in the pile of rocks we have pulled out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/20130804-031.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}