{"id":5434,"date":"2013-11-13T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T06:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2013-12-02T14:51:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T06:51:34","slug":"rat-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/13\/rat-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Rat Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5111\" alt=\"20131113 021\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-021-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-021-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-021.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is the third rat I have caught this week and it is a whopper, the block he is on is 600mm wide. \u00a0 There were actually 2 in the trap 2 days ago, but I didn&#8217;t take a photo. \u00a0I couldn&#8217;t believe that two had been caught at the same time, and both had been caught and killed by the neck. \u00a0 We moved up to a big snap trap as our <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/mouse-trap\/\">little safe n sure mouse traps<\/a> were no match for these critters. \u00a0We first noticed something awry and realised we had rats when the mice caught in the traps were being eaten before we got to them. \u00a0I actually prefer the rats to mice as they don&#8217;t seem to pee everywhere so the feed shed doesn&#8217;t smell like it did when we had a lot of mice. \u00a0 Having said that I don&#8217;t really want the rats here either as they will attract snakes. \u00a0 Hopefully we can get the numbers down before the snakes get on the move. \u00a0The foxes manage the rat carcass disposal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third rat I have caught this week and it is a whopper, the block he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5111,"comment_status":"closed","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":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm","category-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/20131113-021.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434","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=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5435,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/5435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}