RAT-CATCHING
It has been found that rats are inuah more easily caught:if.a mirror"is used. In an ordinary wire" cage-trap a piepo of a : mirror is fitted at the of the trap facing the entrance. ,'When a: rat arrives it sees its own: reflection- in the looking-glass and, thinking-there is already a rat in the trap,: -the- animal enters confidently and -nibbles, at the bait. This plan is particularlv T : successful with old and w^iry; rats that are usually very difficult'to trap.' Eats are fond of one another's conYpany'and will generally go where they, think 'there is another of their own kind."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 12
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101RAT-CATCHING Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 106, 7 May 1934, Page 12
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