black rat

[patdahat 41]

with all the rat's caught have any of ye got a wild black 1 just out of curiosity.

[Millet 4,497]

I have caught one year's ago ...in a big nipper trap in a mates back garden..

[Bosun11 537]

Do you mean a black coloured brown rat or the genuine black rat?

 

Used to get a few 'shippy's' on the caking warehouses on the docks years ago. The old boy I went with told me there were still some small pockets of 'em in most of the old docks around the country.

[TOMO 28,599]

Ship rat Is different to the brown,,,I did a course 10 year ago at kilgerm,, there was a father and son pest team there from Gibraltar ,, he was telling me most of there work was killing the black rat ,,Rattus rattus, If my memory is correct they called them tree rats ,, as apparently they are very good climbers and spend a lot of time in trees and high up....

 

Me personally have never seen one or trapped one

[ftm 3,357]

worked on a small ferry on river tyne as a young man & there was a large bone yard infested with rats and i did spot a few black ones they were no bigger tho few years later an old chap asked me to accompany him to the back of the local cemetry to witness at least adozen coloured rats feeding up the elderberry trees [ishot most of them over a few days ]-billy

[TOMO 28,599]

worked on a small ferry on river tyne as a young man & there was a large bone yard infested with rats and i did spot a few black ones they were no bigger tho few years later an old chap asked me to accompany him to the back of the local cemetry to witness at least adozen coloured rats feeding up the elderberry trees [ishot most of them over a few days ]-billy

 

To be honest mate they were all most likely brown rats,,, brown rats come in a range of colours right down to black,,, and from what I have read,,, the true black rat, is a tad smaller, on average as a full grown adult,,, I have also killed many brown rats up in hedgerows.

[Millet 4,497]

I have killed one or two Brown rat's myself Tomo.. ..but the black one i caught year's ago had bigger ear's a longer tail and a more pointed muzzle than the brown's..it was also 1/3 smaller than the brown rat..

[Nobby 65]

Never seen a true black rat but have seen a pure white brown rat and some with white patches. I spotted the pure white one as a baby feeding in a hen run i could have shot it but i let i off lol i saw it a few times in the same area and seen it as an adult running from one shed to another .I decided next time i saw it its was going to get a superdome i never seen the fecker again lol .

Edited November 17, 2012 by Nobby

[paulus 26]

seen plenty of tree rats after the smokers been used down the hedgerows usually pursued by tree terriors

[Bosun11 537]

I have killed one or two Brown rat's myself Tomo.. ..but the black one i caught year's ago had bigger ear's a longer tail and a more pointed muzzle than the brown's..it was also 1/3 smaller than the brown rat..

That sounds about right Millet, certainly the same as the ones I caught.

[DIDO.1 22,862]

so are there any true black rats still being caught?

[Deker 3,478]

Yes, but VERY few.