Pack rats are classified as herbivores because they eat vegetation and fruits for their proper living. Their diet contains different seeds, fruits, nuts etc. Pack rats are also known as wood rats. Pack rats can live anywhere. They can be found in Canada, Central America, Mexico and they are present throughout Baja California, and California. There are about 21 species of pack rats. They can live in dry, hot deserts to cold rocky slopes. 

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The size of an average male pack rat is 15 inches and an average female is about 10.5-16 inches in length. The average weight of a pack rat is about 300-600 grams. A pack rat can live for about 3 years.

Fruits and vegetation

Pack rats feed on different vegetation and fruits. Pack rats can eat tomatoes and tomato plants because they are easy to find and are tasty and fresh. Desert pack rats eat cactus and they are the great dispersers of cactus seeds. Pack rats also eat pinyon nuts, seeds, berries, bark, and yucca pods in deserts. Pack rats can eat birdseed, in fact, they climb the feeders at backyards and eat birdseed there. 

Pack rats can eat flowers of different plants and also do damage to the plants and vegetation. Pack rats will eat the eggs of birds from their nests. Also, Pack rats eat roses and love overgrown gardens such as bougainvillea, oleander yucca, Italian cypress, and palm trees. Pack rats also eat pet food at night.

What pack rats don’t eat

Pack rats don’t eat animals and insects. Pack rats don’t eat ants, slugs, snails, scorpions, lizards, and birds. Pack rats don’t eat geranium plants because it has a smell that keeps away the rodents such as rats and mice. Additionally, Pack rats don’t like to eat potatoes and potato flakes. Pack rats don’t eat chilies, eucalyptus, and citronella.