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I can understand that. I’ve only had mice damage to our stove and have never seen a wild rat around our home. The lab/pet/working rat (except for the landmine detection as they are the giant pouched rat) are the same species as the wild rat but bred with intentions so their behaviors are a bit...

They really are some amazing creatures that have a bad reputation. Besides landline detection they are also trained to detect tuberculosis and humans. They’re also training them for search and rescue operations because they can fit in the places that dogs cannot.

I was kind of like that at first but it is actually kind of soft. They actually have great balance because of their tail and they also use it to regulate body temperature. They can stand on the edge of a cardboard box and balance and walk pretty easily. The rest of them is so darn adorable. I...

The males will mark territory. It hasn’t been a problem. Once a week one will leave 2 drops on my phone.

We now have a 2 story rat cage in our living room! These 3 young brothers are so cool. The most outgoing is the silvermane named Bruno. The whole family loves them. Bruno stripped a 16 pocket dog treat puzzle in 5 minutes on his first try. They free roam the living room every evening and always...

Yeah, I get it. I bet our hamsters could do that. Rodents are more trainable than I ever realized. That’s a good use for rats. There’s not a place they can’t squeeze into.

They looked about the same size. Hard to believe that they were offspring. If they were, they were grown.

Amazing! Never would have thought something like this existed.

I saw one on the trail this morning as well! Moved him out of the path.

We have those on the right coast as well. They must be widely distributed.

Prolly a Northern Watersnake. Hard to tell in the dark and up on the bank. Not a water moccasin as I’m nearly certain those aren’t found around us.

Oldest boy and I want on an evening critter seeking adventure. Didn’t fair too badly.

I’ve trained most of our 5 hamsters to come up the tube when called. I use their name and jiggle the tube. Strangely, food was never a reward. The aquarium with a cage is a play area they each visit every night and getting them to the top makes it so I don’t have to remove the lid. I really fell...

“Momma” being held and “Ruby” on the counter. We have 3 more as well. I wake them up every evening to come out and play. Literature says to not wake a sleeping hamster but I do it gently a little at a time. “Boy” is my favorite, I think. He responds to his name and crawls onto my palm to come...

@Trains He’s had a roo encounter or 2. Tell the story of the Joey next to you when you were working on the ute!

She’s the chief irrigation specialist

A sunbathing squirrel. I’m sure it’s a common behavior but I’ve never seen it before.

We kept a female wild tree frog in the kitchen over winter a couple years ago in a terrarium. Fed her crickets and mealworms. They have amazingly sticky feet! Wouldn’t it be cool to just crawl up a tree?!

Unfortunately I can’t do part time work because of my work schedule, my wife’s work schedule, and our 3 kids. Trust me, been thinking of how to pull that off since this tree thing started. Knowledge would be so much easier to attain working directly for someone with lots of experience. If I...

I misspoke in one of the above statements. Maryland requires a Licensed Tree Expert license, not ISA cert. It’s a state exam. Still requires 3 years field experience or 2 years college (arborist related) and 1 year field. Even if I got an associates degree, there’s still the year of field...