Posted on 12/20/2021 5:40:12 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
This will come as no surprise to anyone but New York City has a rat problem.
The Rats method of rat control – documented in grisly detail online – isn’t for everyone, but it receives scores of requests from New Yorkers each year. In a city this rat strewn, it seems people are willing to try anything.
On the other side of the fence we wait: eight people with eight dogs straining at their leashes, and me, standing there with my pants tucked into my socks, holding an iPhone. The dogs, all terriers, have quite literally smelt a rat, and are yapping and hopping about.
With a leap and barely suppressed squeal I evade the rat, but it’s a close call.
According to Columbia University, Norway rats arrived in the US on boats sometime around 1776, transported in boxes of grain by German soldiers recruited by the British to fight American colonists
“The rats at Bellevue are a bold and reckless race, and do not hesitate to come forth from their hiding places, and scamper about even in the presence of men in high position,” the Times reported.
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Hunting rats with dogs is not for everyone. Reynolds said animal rights groups, in particular, were unimpressed.
“Anyone who witnesses this cruelty should alert authorities immediately, as it’s a violation of New York’s anti-cruelty law, which applies as much to smaller mammals who feel pain and fear as to larger ones such as dogs.”
The general idea is that dogs kill the rats by shaking them vigorously, breaking their necks or backs. But that doesn’t always work. One rat ended up being beheaded, while another found itself subjected to a tug-of-war between two lusty terriers.
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Typical NY, give a cats job to a dog.
Hey, doggy, leave those rats alone!
The whole country has a Rat problem.
Get Sgt Troy and the rest of the RAT Patrol.
check out rat traps on You Tube, you can get a bucket full of rats in minutes with those things.
There was a time when dogs were specifically used to kill rats. Jack Russell terriers are particularly adept at it.
Many cats won’t mess with rats.
“First they came for the rats and I didn’t defend them because, well, they were rats...”
LOL!
—”Get Sgt Troy and the rest of the RAT Patrol”
The locals may not be happy having their garbage cans shot up?
Or worse fragged.
That’s got to be the most fun a dog can have in New York City, just a little step down from coon hunting in the fields and marshes out in the country.
(Sjws) Awe, then poor things.
Terriers gonna terrier.
I disagree. My terrier mix was a bloody psychopath when it came to most any small
Animals. 35 pounds, she once yanked a crow right out of the air as they’re a bit slow taking off. Slaughtered it most unpleasantly on the spot. Killed a 15 pound possum without taking a single scratch on her. Flattened field mice, munched birds, etc. she was brutal
And the cousin breed the “rat terrier”.
But it's two-legged.
Sixty years ago NY had a rat problem. So to combat the rats the city posted a bounty on all dead rats brought in.
None were brought in as the citizens refused to catch the rats. They wanted the city to take care of the problem.
I remember an ad in the back of a farm magazine, back then, that offered money for every rat tail turned in.
If you’d like to see dogs doing what they love (WRT rats), check out THIS video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIJZ_bb1IVQ&ab_channel=SevernValleyRatters
The heck with dogs, bring in the coyotes. Democrats have an abundance of them.
So is my Staffie.
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