Your intruder doesn’t match a rat either if your description is accurate. Rats have a long, naked tail and their ears and eyes are prominent. It could be that your dog tangled with a shrew. Although shrews are rodent-like, they are not rodents but belong to the order Insectivora. Moles are also in this group…
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1. Rats live in filthy places. Home for a rat can be a sewer, dumpster, alley, or garbage dump where it might feed on animal or human feces, dead animals, or rotting garbage–and pick up germs in the process. 2. Rats carry diseases. Maybe our primal fear of rats and disease goes back to the…
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Like other animals, insects require three things – food, water, and shelter. They look for a location that will provide all three. As with all animals though, the need for food generally outweighs the others. If you know what certain insects feed on, you can pretty much predict where they will be found in a…
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There are a couple of different types of tiny powderpost beetles that can infest wood in homes, often hardwood floors or furniture. The anobiid powderpost beetle, however, is more likely to damage structural wood as it infests both softwoods and older hardwoods. These powderpost beetles require high moisture levels and most often attack unfinished wood…
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We know that raccoons do sometimes get into homes, holing up in chimneys or attics, and often requiring professional removal. Did you know that it’s not an unusual occurrence for a raccoon to literally fall through a ceiling into a living space? Now that would wake you up! Gates Wildlife, a company in Toronto, has…
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