Typical NY, give a cats job to a dog.
Hey, doggy, leave those rats alone!
The whole country has a Rat problem.
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.
“First they came for the rats and I didn’t defend them because, well, they were rats...”
LOL!
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.
This is not really a bad thing. But it is nothing more than a sport. Its about the same as hunting fox or coons. Dogs do it naturally. Its not really cruel. The rats will eat each other eventually. As soon as the food runs out or one gets really sick.
But if you think your doing something to shrink the rat population, you are fooling your self. Rats reproduce at an alarming rate. You can’t really make a dent in their population. They live in the sewers and even in the rivers. There is so much food and water and warmth done there it can maintain tens of millions of rats.
And I hope these men get their dogs to their shots every year. The dogs are going to take home some nasty flees and other infections.
I had a Gordon Setter that killed a few Rats in her day , we have neighbours that feed birds and attract rats from the river
I caught 44 rats in under an hour using a few propositioned cockatiel nest boxes, some corn shucks, and some duct tape. Hung the boxes then the next day checked them to see what moved in overnight. Rats, especially the females, can’t resist bird nest boxes hung high. You can tell when they are in the box by the corn shucks dangling out the entrance hole after they stuff them in the boxes to make their nest. You can also tell just by the weight of the box when you grab it. So when you have an occupied box you slap some duct tape over the hole and carry the box to a 55 gallon drum with two feet of water in it and drop the box in. Push it under and leave it there for 10 minutes. Then pull it out and see how many rats were in it. Often it is 5 to 7... Did not take long to clear the barn.
A news story about 9 dead rats?
Damn democrats.
We havve always known that NYC has a democRAT problem. That’s why air rifles were invented,
There are several great videos on the Rat Terriers who job out the rat killing— community activists who go out at night with their dogs to find and kill rats (as requested by citizens). This was a while back, and oh how looney the PC PETA crowd went. May recall also that D.C. rat pest control was for a time capturing LIVE RATS and moving them out into the “countryside” of VA.
VA FReepers might know if this is still going on. Not killing the filthy disease vectors— noooooo— let the wharf rats the size of cats out into the wild. There is only so many that owls, coyotes, and domestic or feral dogs and cats can handle.
There will be the idiots yelling “save the rats” just like on Kauai idiots yell “save the chickens” from those noisy invasive pests.
Can we send the dogs to DC? Big Rat problem there.