I was over in the mountains of WV for work last week when I came across an old rundown barn. I love seeing the rats everyone else seems to find in these places online, but I don't often get a chance to look in places like this myself. So I looked all around without turning up anything of interest. I was getting depressed and thinking I'd have to take a pic of this barn just to show how nice it looked for snakes despite not having any.

As I went to walk out a different doorway than I had come in I found a black rat shed hanging from the ceiling. That made it all the more frustrating, but I did appreciate the souvenir. As soon as I walked out the door, I turned to frame up a picture of the barn and saw this nice 5 footer draped across the door. It was about as black as any I've seen in person and was very calm.







Once the tail had completely disappeared between the boards, I was about to go on my way when I noticed I was being watched.



I had just seen a nice black rat that got away before I could even get a decent picture the week before, so I was really glad to have turned this one up.

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• A nice black rat... - Kevin Saunders, Mon Jul 14 11:49:03 2008
• RE: A nice black rat... - lbrat, Mon Jul 14 16:12:38 2008
• RE: A nice black rat... - dre, Tue Jul 15 06:47:28 2008
• just awesome.... - FRoberts, Wed Jul 16 00:36:37 2008
• RE: just awesome.... - Kevin Saunders, Wed Jul 16 07:33:02 2008
• Thanks Kevin.... - FRoberts, Wed Jul 16 07:43:24 2008
• RE: A nice black rat... - BillMcgElaphe, Wed Jul 16 06:25:21 2008