Garden Pests and Diseases: Roofrats that keeps eating my stuff, 1 by Gourd

Gourd wrote:
This is a photo of a roof rat that we caught (so far about 7 of them) they ate my gourd crop this year, and started in on my Epiphyliums.. I almost cried. They just eat everything in their path, my passion vines too. They say they even eat wires..so we have traps everywhere, they are very destructive and very intelligent. We super glue the dog food on the traps and they still manage to take it off without snapping it. Also, if they see one dead rat, they will not go to the traps, so we have to remove the (caught ones) as soon as possible. Can you believe that? The came down from the hills after the fires here. They are almost 14 inches from tail to head. I am sure there are bigger ones than that, but these are the biggest I have seen. (besides the darned gopher's), the teeth are just like the gopher teeth too. Yuck. I hope I did not make anyone sick.