Let me tell you a household story…We have a rat in our house. A peculiarly intelligent ra
Let me tell you a household story…We have a rat in our house. A peculiarly intelligent rat. A rat with a distaste for unhealthy foodstuffs usually beloved of rodents and frequently used to bait traps. I have taken to calling it the “Hobgoblin”. Our Hobgoblin turns up its nose at bacon or salami but will demolish a small apple left out overnight, carrying the uneaten portion as far as our laundry before ditching it. It will gnaw down into the core of raw sweet potato growing out in the garden or on the kitchen bench but ignore the peanut paste put on traps (it also ignores raw sweet potato on the traps). It will chew a hole through the skin of a banana happily but ignore the sausage fat that was left in a frying pan. It ignored rat baits but ate an entire bar of cranberry scented soap in some six installations. The other night it ate the last of the garlic butter vegetables from dinner last night but completely ignored the solid stick of butter sitting next to them on the counter. Last night it ate half a tomato and tonight I can hear it rustling in the wall behind the cistern. Crazy Rat - you keep me conscious of clearing the kitchen benches of anything I am not willing to share.I shall have to draw our Hobgoblin at some soon point. -- source link
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