Last Stand at Packrat Gulch

[crays]

Great quote and story, BG. I've done battle with pack rats many times and usually end up live trapping them, but that takes patience. They sure can make a nasty, stinky mess.








Yesterday, I had a similar chase to capture a juvenile marmot that was in an auto repair lot in GJ. We think it came into town with a towed car that had all it's wiring chewed up. We worked more than 2 hours trying to dislodge it from under vehicles, on top of fuel tanks, transmissions and spare tires. It had gotten dunked in an open tank of used motor oil so it kept slipping out of the capture noose. Biting at everything. I tried to dislodge it by spraying with water which at least gave it a good bath. Poor thing. Eventually we grabbed it by the tail and yanked it out so we could blanket it and put it into a carrier. Rescued alive, we took it up to the mountains to release. Whew, one for the books as the most difficult wildlife capture we've ever done.

No offense meant Hummer, but after reading your post I had to chuckle a little bit, because all I could think of was "yeeyeeyee LIVE ACTION!!"