Dusky-footed Woodrats, which are really very small rodents, build huge, elaborate houses of sticks. A house can measure more than a meter in diameter and be a meter high and one Woodrat may have as many as three houses. Learn more about the Neotoma fuscipes, more commonly known as a Dusky-footed Woodrat, in this easy-to-read species overview by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.