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Anticlimactic...
Boringly, I did manage to catch our sneak thief on film, and it's a rat.
It seems to only be *one* rat, and there's a lot of to-ing and fro-ing through the night, so I suspect that somewhere near our barn there's a big pile of pony nuts! (This would also explain the lack of poo, I suspect.)
(There's a lovely shot of him at 3:45am, when he's perched on the bucket rim having a rest. Certainly looks nice and sleek! Don't worry, the video isn't the whole night.)
Now, to think of solutions. The only ones that spring to mind are not doing the feeds at all (but then Mike has to make the feeds in the morning), covering the water bucket (but with what? It's have to be a good fit), or hanging it from the ceiling on a rope. The last of those has the advantage that, if it's a smart rat, I'll then be able to get some *really* cool pictures....
([Taps fingers] Come on YouTube, finish processing so that I can post this and head off to Pilates!)
It seems to only be *one* rat, and there's a lot of to-ing and fro-ing through the night, so I suspect that somewhere near our barn there's a big pile of pony nuts! (This would also explain the lack of poo, I suspect.)
(There's a lovely shot of him at 3:45am, when he's perched on the bucket rim having a rest. Certainly looks nice and sleek! Don't worry, the video isn't the whole night.)
Now, to think of solutions. The only ones that spring to mind are not doing the feeds at all (but then Mike has to make the feeds in the morning), covering the water bucket (but with what? It's have to be a good fit), or hanging it from the ceiling on a rope. The last of those has the advantage that, if it's a smart rat, I'll then be able to get some *really* cool pictures....
([Taps fingers] Come on YouTube, finish processing so that I can post this and head off to Pilates!)