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08-07-2006, 12:26 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
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black racers for the win!
snakes are so cute.
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aim: SaltedBrian
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08-07-2006, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Imagine how many rats there would be if not for the snakes  |
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08-07-2006, 01:01 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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Problem is that a 5' snake will eat one Canal-sized rat, and take two weeks to digest it. Won't eat another one. And there are thousands of rats and only a handful of snakes.
Same situation with seals and great whites. One or two sharks won't make a dent in the seal numbers  And seals breed faster than whites. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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08-07-2006, 01:03 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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Maybe we can train the seals to eat rats  |
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08-07-2006, 01:12 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Gloucester, MA
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Or the rats to eat the seals. Or even better yet for them to eat each other.
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08-07-2006, 01:13 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Gloucester, MA
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I bet these rats would make good shark bait floating in a slick offshore.
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08-07-2006, 02:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: in a structure with a roof
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the rats help keep it clean from all the slobs . I have learned to never place my bait on the rocks . the snakes eat the rats , the homeless eat the rats hi ho the deery o the rats eat the bait
rats are good seals are bad !
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08-08-2006, 03:04 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
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Originally Posted by Mike P
Problem is that a 5' snake will eat one Canal-sized rat, and take two weeks to digest it. Won't eat another one. And there are thousands of rats and only a handful of snakes.
Same situation with seals and great whites. One or two sharks won't make a dent in the seal numbers And seals breed faster than whites. |
but 1 - 5' snake will EASILY take down a whole nest of rat babies as well, and snakes being opportunists, will choose that over mommy rat every time
however, still more rats, and rats still win...
too bad that it gets cold here, letting a few water monitors and burmese pythons go along the canal would solve that problem, quickly... |
aim: SaltedBrian
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08-08-2006, 03:39 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
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I hear rats are pretty tasty .. haven't got that desperate after a good skunking .. not yet ..  |
Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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08-08-2006, 04:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern NH
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Originally Posted by bjs
but 1 - 5' snake will EASILY take down a whole nest of rat babies as well, and snakes being opportunists, will choose that over mommy rat every time
however, still more rats, and rats still win...
too bad that it gets cold here, letting a few water monitors and burmese pythons go along the canal would solve that problem, quickly...
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If I was one of those snakes without venom I would worry about getting eaten by the rats... When I was kid I saw a BIG RAT kill a small tough dog when surrounded by a pack of dogs.... then the bigger dogs shredded Mr. Rat. |
Good health and family
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08-07-2006, 01:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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10-12 years ago, camping at
scussett.. ran into one of the biggest rats I've ever seen on the rocks there... looked as large as a small raccoon, thought it might be a possum at first, but as I got closer.. nope.. Rat...
same trip, couple days later, mid day sitting on the rocks with my kids, my son dropped his soda can and it fell into the rocks... he started to stick his arm down to get it and yelped, and jumped... I looked in the crevice... I have no idea how long, but there was a black snake in there, that was huge! Diameter was amazing.. we, made real good time back to the camper....
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