Woodrats coming back to Indiana

An interesting experiment. However, I would rather the effort and resources be spent on restoring habitat; fish restocking and maintaining our wetlands.25

and they taste good too

I heard that IU's Kinsey Institute was passed over for this study

Sounds like a great mascot/name for a high-school basketball team!

so glad the rats are back!

WHAT? Since these rats were educated in Indiana and moved out of state does that mean that there going to use this same method on humans next. These rats have went to a lot of trouble building thier new condos in the wooded hills of Kentucky over looking the Ohio. Now any attempt to revive the population of these hard working rats in Indiana is nothing more than a far reach for tax dollars. It is just outrageous to say the least? How would you feel if a total stranger come to your home and moved you to another state? Talking about breaking up the families. I think it is politically motivated by Mitch to waste more of our tax dollars. How like him to look for an opportunity in ever misery. Stop this dixie stampede write to your congressman or women today maybe Dan Burton or Julie Carson could help here.

Omg some people are dumb I guess.. The fact that these rats became extinct in Indiana is due to developement and change of environment.

On a second note, nevermind this isn't worth the time to talk about.

good somthing more to shoot at mmmm taste like chicken !!!!!!!!

Oh, I thought you meant Hudnut was back in town.

" Idle hands are the devil's workshop"?

If southern Indiana is in need of more rats, perhaps we could move the legislature down there.

better believe it wrote:

WHAT? Since these rats were educated in Indiana and moved out of state does that mean that there going to use this same method on humans next. These rats have went to a lot of trouble building thier new condos in the wooded hills of Kentucky over looking the Ohio. Now any attempt to revive the population of these hard working rats in Indiana is nothing more than a far reach for tax dollars. It is just outrageous to say the least? How would you feel if a total stranger come to your home and moved you to another state? Talking about breaking up the families. I think it is politically motivated by Mitch to waste more of our tax dollars. How like him to look for an opportunity in ever misery. Stop this dixie stampede write to your congressman or women today maybe Dan Burton or Julie Carson could help here.

That's funny! LOL

we have to bring them in to do jobs that Indiana rats won't do

Now there's something to do with our money! I will admit to a lack of familiarity with the Allegheny Woodrat. But, if it's anything at all like the Bushy Tailed Woodrats of NW Montana, the biologist who said they are "clean" is just completely wrong. The ones here are filthy, and I can smell their foul odor at about 100 yards. And they don't figure into the food chain at all. Scavengers here won't even eat them, they're so foul.

Living in rural Indiana is becoming very difficult.
A surplus of deer, raccoons, gray squirrels, moles, and rabbits have made me give up my fruit trees, berries, vegetable and flower gardens, and a decent lawn. While my loss is pure esthetic, my farmer friends are financially impacted by an excess wild animal population. I don't think we need to add to the problem by adding yet another species to the mix.