
I would take them for walks, take them to lunch at our favorite Chinese restaurant, and would help clean up their condo and, later, their room at an assisted living home, something that had to be done frequently as my grandma's condition increasingly turned her into a packrat. My mom calls her a " packrat" which means she never throws anything away. So are your rats just wannabe packrats inhabiting old nests, or are you just using "packrat" as a sort of vernacular? I see a smooth-tailed rat, but what I'm used to calling a packrat has a bushy tail, so I got out my mammal book. noun a collector of miscellaneous useless objects.noun someone who collects things that have been discarded by others.The national mean is 130 and a score of 110 has been correlated to not passing the PANCE. noun any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America hoards food and other objects Off By idswater What is a good packrat score The rule of thumb is a PACKRAT score greater than 150 means your odds of passing the PANCE are astronomically high.noun One who tends to acquire various objects one who collects, accumulates or has trouble throwing things away.įrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University.

noun Any of several species of rodent in the genus Neotoma, but most commonly the bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea).noun Informal A person who habitually saves items, even those unlikely to be useful.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

