another first for me ..been doing a job, building retaining walls,steps,fencing for a customer few weeks back,garden backed on to a stream and horse stables,I set a few live catch traps,ended up with 23 rats out of the garden,came in one morning,rat in the trap,I out the trap in a builders bucket,put my coat over it until the end of the day....when I got home and picked up the trap...there's was 12 little pinkie rat pups in the cage...rat had given birth and not eaten them....the rat pups went to the kids cornsnakes and mother was rehomed with my terrier pups ...