OOps didn't know that ,only handled one of them there were 5 in total.I'll make sure not to next time.
Squirres or rats
- Thread starter Krismo962
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It's actually a common myth that mother animals will reject their own offspring if they smell human on em. It all started with mother's that didn't want their kids bringing home baby animals.
Granted there are some animals that this myth is no myth for such as hamsters. Hamster will eat their own babies if ya touch em. They do this in more of the sense that "I'll recycle them so that I get the energy back to try again rather then letting someone else steal it and getting nothing back in return".
That's exactly what I was told and believed also about the Hamsters.
At the recycling facility I work at we have a paper and cardboard part of the business. It comes in loose in bulk tipper wagons and we bale it up in huge balers into 1 tonne bales. We then stack the bales in a warehouse awaiting delivery. Sometimes if the boss is waiting for the market price to change he'll hold on to them for weeks at a time. I hate it when this happens because I know all too well what's going to happen.
Our place is full of rats, they are attracted to the waste food which is always in with the recycling bin rubbish. They come out at night to rummage through the waste whilst our fork lift trucks and diggers are parked up. During the day time they sleep to avoid the hustle bustle of our mega busy yard. And where do you think they love making their nests? Yes, in the bloody paper bales. And when they've been left for a couple of weeks awaiting a price increase those bales are riddled with nests, full of new born pinkies right up to older babies ready for leaving the nest.
And when we start loading the bales onto the trucks the yard is full of rats running for their lives. The helpless babies all over the floor. And they just get squished, hundreds and hundreds of them. It absolutely breaks my heart, I love animals. The rate those things breed is astonishing, it's no wonder they're one of the most sucessful animals ever to walk the earth.
Our place is full of rats, they are attracted to the waste food which is always in with the recycling bin rubbish. They come out at night to rummage through the waste whilst our fork lift trucks and diggers are parked up. During the day time they sleep to avoid the hustle bustle of our mega busy yard. And where do you think they love making their nests? Yes, in the bloody paper bales. And when they've been left for a couple of weeks awaiting a price increase those bales are riddled with nests, full of new born pinkies right up to older babies ready for leaving the nest.
And when we start loading the bales onto the trucks the yard is full of rats running for their lives. The helpless babies all over the floor. And they just get squished, hundreds and hundreds of them. It absolutely breaks my heart, I love animals. The rate those things breed is astonishing, it's no wonder they're one of the most sucessful animals ever to walk the earth.
I’ve actually heard this about birds, but I handled the baby rats and the mothers still cared for them. Granted, these were domestic, not wild.
So? Rat? Squirrel? Other?Update : she came back,they were in shoebox with some paper towel shreddings and the nest they were in.Didn't notice until I saw her getting the last one out.
