Our newest tourist attraction
By adamg - Thu, 10/18/2007 - 9:02am.
Oh, look: Now tourists are taking pictures of our rats.
Speaking of rats, you know what eats them? Cats and coyotes! And it seems we have tons of both these days, although urban-coyote researchers say the canines sometimes eat the felines:
... "We've found all kinds of stuff in their scat - cats, seals [on Cape Cod], fruit, food wrappers, you name it." Strauss suggests coyotes' most important competitors in urban areas may be feral cats and that these predators coexist by foraging at different times of day. ...
Ed. squeamish note: A few days ago, somebody posted a photo of a dead rat in Somerville with a 2x4 through it. Sorry, I just can't bring myself to link to that. Blecch!
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Rat on a stick!
Get your rat on a stick here!
oh, come on, link to it!
oh, come on, link to it!
Yeah, link to it. I still
Yeah, link to it. I still enjoy tales of the vermin's suffering.
Directions
Somebody who is clevr enough might figur out how to go to a populr photo site and search on "somrville rat" (only remembring to add back the frst 'e').
Coyotes eat lots of fruit
After seeing coyotes several times in my town, and then being startled while late-night watering by a coyote casually walking down my street, I did a bit of research on ‘em.
Turn out coyotes are true foragers, and at times up to half of their diet is fruits and berries. Sure they’re quite happy to sup on Fluffy & Sparky but they’ll make do with about anything.
Now we just need a time-limit on how long those ‘Missing Pet’ pet signs should be up the street poles. I figure after two weeks a fat complacent housepet was almost assuredly roadkill, something’s entre, or both.